Rajendra Kumar
Associate Professor
Chandigarh, India
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Top SchoolRajendra Kumar is an associate professor and computational biophysicist with 12 years of experience building software and methods for drug design, biophysics, bio-engineering and genomics. He has transitioned between academia and industry—working in leading institutes like Max Planck and Umeå University and in R&D roles at Astex and AstraZeneca—bringing production-grade scientific software into drug discovery pipelines. His work spans molecular modeling, molecular dynamics, chemoinformatics and Hi-C genome analysis, including development of tools to model 3D genome organization and design selective G-quadruplex binders. Based in Chandigarh, he combines deep domain expertise from a PhD in computational biophysics with practical software engineering to turn complex biological problems into reproducible computational workflows.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Pharmacoinformatics, Master of Science (MS), Pharmacoinformatics at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and ResearchBachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.), Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.), Pharmaceutical Sciences at Birla Institute of Technology, MesraPh.D., Computational Biophysics, Ph.D., Computational Biophysics at Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (Faßberg-Campus)
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (8)
bioinformatics10
scientific-visualization10
genome10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
web-application10
clustering10
javascript9
webgl9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rjdkmr/gcMapExplorer
Aug 2016 - Jan 2022
Genome Contact Map Explorer - gcMapExplorer. Visit:
Contributions:2 releases, 127 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 6 months
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rjdkmr/g_distMat
Jul 2014 - May 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 6 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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