Rishab Jain
Co-Founder at Qurios
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishab Jain is a founder and machine learning engineer based in Cambridge, MA with eight years of hands-on experience building product-ready AI systems and scaling online communities. He co-founded Prescience and previously founded Qurios (now in advisory post-acquisition), blending startup leadership with deep technical contributions in ML for biology and neuroscience. His research work includes autoencoders for cortical layer reconstruction at Harvard Medical School and a published state-of-the-art codon optimization model for E. coli, demonstrating an unusual mix of computational neuroscience and bioinformatics expertise. Earlier projects show a knack for building platform-scale systems—scaling Discord communities to 250K users and authoring bots used by millions—indicating strong product instincts alongside research rigor. Rishab studied CS and Neuro at Harvard, and consistently bridges academic research with deployable, high-impact engineering.
8 years of coding experience
Westview High SchoolCS/Neuro, CS/Neuro at Harvard University
Github Skills (52)
benchmark10
doi10
discord-bot10
discord-js9
discord9
optimization8
deep-learning8
api8
nodejs8
pytorch7
discord-py6
crf6
javascript6
softmax5
part-of-speech-tagger5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RJain12/detoxAI
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
AI-powered moderation & utility Discord Bot!
Contributions:1 review, 29 commits, 16 pushes in 11 months
Lattice-Automation/icor-codon-optimization
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
RNN-based Codon Optimization Tool. Preprint paper: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.08.467706
Contributions:5 releases, 99 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
pytorchdoirnndeep-learningoptimization
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