Pengyu Ren
AAAS Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPengyu Ren is a biophysically grounded engineer and entrepreneur with 15+ years advancing computational chemistry, molecular dynamics, and drug discovery as a professor at UT Austin and co-founder of Qubit Pharmaceuticals. He leads development of the AMOEBA force field and the Tinker scientific software suite, marrying deep-methods research with practical tooling for biomolecular simulation. As ECH Bantel Professor and co-director of UT’s targeted therapeutic program, he drives computational strategy for translational drug development while shaping undergraduate BME curriculum. An AAAS and AIMBE Fellow, he blends academic leadership with startup execution—an unusual combination that accelerates both open scientific software and real-world therapeutics.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering at University of CincinnatiResearch Associate, Biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Research Associate, Biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. LouisZhejiang University
Github Skills (21)
simulation10
molecular-simulation10
tinker10
cuda10
high-performance10
dft9
energy9
molecule9
parameterization9
gpu9
prediction9
rdkit7
cheminformatics7
optimization6
bioinformatics2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pren/openmm-amoeba
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
prenlab/ammm
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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