Venkatesh Mysore
Co-founder And CTO at TiE Silicon Valley
Castro Valley, California, United States
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Top SchoolVenkatesh Mysore is a co-founder and CTO with 4 years in startup leadership and two decades of deep technical experience in computational drug discovery and machine learning. He has led R&D and product efforts at Atomwise and D. E. Shaw Research, developing scalable algorithms for ultra-large virtual screening, active learning for 10B-compound campaigns, and tools that bridge cheminformatics, synthesis constraints, and medicinal chemistry. At NVIDIA he helped pharma and startups accelerate ML-driven drug discovery on GPUs, and today he leads Aikium, speaking on battery and energy storage while applying protein engineering and synthetic biology to therapeutics. His background blends a PhD in computer science with hands-on simulation, ML, and productionization expertise, plus inventor-level work and invited NIH talks. Not obvious from titles: he repeatedly builds semi-automated pipelines that let scientists iterate from simulation to synthesizable candidates, turning complex computational chemistry into practical drug-discovery workflows. Based in Castro Valley, CA, he pairs founder-level strategy with domain-deep technical leadership across biotech and compute-intensive science.
4 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (33)
protein-structure10
memory-efficient9
pytorch9
tsne9
gpu8
docking8
lifecycle7
chainer7
simulation7
lightning7
artificial-intelligence7
searching7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mpvenkatesh/alphafold_non_docker
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
AlphaFold2 non-docker setup
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
alphafold2docker-setupdocker
NVIDIA/cheminformatics
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Facilitates searching, screening, and organizing large chemical databases
Contributions:3 PRs, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rdkitpythonchainerfacilitatesdocking
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