Pranav Ballaney
PhD Candidate
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPranav Ballaney is a PhD candidate at Purdue University combining biology and computer science with eight years of interdisciplinary research and teaching experience. He has built production-quality scientific software—from Rust-based SBML/MathML parsers and simulators to Python and Node.js tools adopted by multiple iGEM teams—and contributed to life-sciences packaging and CI in Debian. His work spans computational structural biology, visual analytics, and wet-lab–aware tooling, with hands-on experience mentoring undergraduates as a teaching assistant. A Gold-medal iGEM software lead who also translated scientific content into Indian languages, he brings an unusual blend of open-source engineering, scientific rigor, and accessibility-driven impact. Currently focused on chemistry research at Purdue, he bridges experimental questions and reproducible computational pipelines.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceSenior Secondary School, PCM, Senior Secondary School, PCM at Delhi Public School - IndiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry at Purdue University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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1answer
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Github Skills (71)
goa9
implant9
python8
deep-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
computational-biology7
binding7
freebsd7
docking7
neural-network6
jquery6
html6
rna-seq6
rust6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
igembitsgoa/igem-wiki-starter
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
The easiest way to build your iGEM wiki.
Contributions:2 releases, 95 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
igemwikiigem-wiki
igembitsgoa/wikisync-action
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:6 releases, 14 commits, 13 pushes in 2 months
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