Raphael Townshend
Founder & CEO at Atomic AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRaphael Townshend is the Founder & CEO of Atomic AI and a Stanford CS PhD who has spent 11 years applying machine learning to structural biology, now focusing on AI-driven RNA drug discovery. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he led research at the Stanford AI Lab (NSF GRFP-supported) and contributed to AlphaFold-era work during an internship at DeepMind. He combines deep academic rigor—his thesis on geometric learning of biomolecular structure—with hands-on startup leadership in Palo Alto, bridging research and product to move novel therapeutics toward reality. Notably, he has taught Stanford’s flagship CS229 course and scaled teams and curricula, signaling an ability to translate complex ML concepts to broad audiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Menlo SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Stanford University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (86)
molecule10
python10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
dimensions10
protein-sequences9
ml9
cheminformatics9
neural-network9
chemistry9
optimization9
forwarding9
docking9
deep-neural-networks9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raphtown/vimconfig
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
raphtown/easy-parallel
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Parallel wrapper for easy multi-threading.
Contributions:19 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
multi-threadingthreadingparallel
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