Shruthi Viswanath
Assistant Professor at National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), TIFR
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolShruthi Viswanath is an Assistant Professor and computational structural biologist at NCBS, TIFR, with a decade of experience bridging computer science and structural biology. She earned a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin and applies computational methods to biological structure problems, leading an interdisciplinary lab in Bengaluru. Her work combines rigorous algorithmic thinking with experimental collaboration, enabling insights into biomolecular function and dynamics. As a researcher-educator she mentors students while maintaining an active academic program that translates computational models into testable biological hypotheses. Notably, her background in IT and CS gives her a rare dual fluency in software engineering and wet-lab needs, allowing her to build tools that are both scalable and biologically grounded.
10 years of coding experience
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinB.Tech, Information Technology, B.Tech, Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Github Skills (16)
structural-biology10
python-bindings10
convergence10
sampling9
protein-structure9
modeling8
python8
ensembles5
machine-learning4
visualization4
pytorch4
memory-efficient4
gpu2
numba1
to-do1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
isblab/prism
May 2021 - Jun 2024
Package for visualizing regions of high and low precision in ensembles of integrative models.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 3 years 1 month
autoencodersregionsmachine-learningvisualizingprecision
isblab/IMP_Tutorial
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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