Sandip De
Principal Scientist at BASF
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Top SchoolSandip De is a Principal Scientist with 11 years of industrial research experience, currently leading global teams at BASF in solid-state quantum mechanics and machine learning for chemistry. He specializes in catalyst development and materials modelling for applications including heterogeneous catalysis, electrolysis and battery research, bridging theory and experiment to drive sustainable solutions. His background spans postdoctoral work at EPFL and a PhD in Physics from the University of Basel, combining deep academic rigor with practical impact in industry R&D. Sandip also contributes to open-source scientific software, optimizing core data structures in the widely used PLUMED2 code to improve performance of sketch-map routines. He is based in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and known for merging quantum simulation, ML and engineering pragmatism to accelerate materials discovery.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Physics, Bachelor's Degree Physics at St Xavier's college, kolkataPost doctorate Machine Learning | Materials Modeling , Post doctorate Machine Learning | Materials Modeling at EPFLMaster's Degree Physics, Master's Degree Physics at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at University of Basel
Bengali, German, Marathi, English, Hindi
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Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
plumed/plumed2
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Development version of plumed 2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Sandip contributed to the optimization and improvement of the `Grid` class, a core component for data storage and manipulation within the PLUMED2 project. They focused on enhancing the efficiency of sketch-map routines by addressing performance bottlenecks related to copying standard vectors within the grid. These changes involved modifying and refactoring several methods of the `Grid` class to improve speed, performance, and overall code quality. They also contributed to other relevant files, such as `SketchMapConjGrad.cpp` and `SketchMapBase.cpp`, including fixing bugs and adding the `lowmem` option to `EuclideanDissimilarityMatrix`.
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sandipde/Interactive-Sketchmap-Visualizer
Jun 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:69 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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