Wenhao Gao
Co-Founder And CTO at Stealth Startup
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWenhao Gao is a Co-Founder and CTO with nine years of experience at the intersection of AI, chemistry, and drug discovery, now leading a stealth Palo Alto startup after postdoctoral work at Stanford and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. He combines deep academic research—spanning ML for therapeutics and computational chemistry—with practical engineering, contributing backend and data-science improvements to high-profile open projects like Therapeutics Commons (TDC). Known for integrating tooling such as PyScreener for docking and improving dataset loaders and evaluators, he turns research prototypes into reproducible, production-ready pipelines. Comfortable switching between hands-on code and strategic technical leadership, he brings a rare blend of domain expertise in chemistry and strong software engineering chops.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJohns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Chemistry Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry Physics at Peking University
Github Skills (11)
bioinformatics10
docking10
machine-learning10
python10
data-science10
cheminformatics9
deep-learning8
benchmark8
benchmarking8
deeplearning-ai8
pandas8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mims-harvard/TDC
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Therapeutics Commons (TDC): Multimodal Foundation for Therapeutic Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 1 PR in 1 year
Contributions summary:Wenhao primarily focused on enhancing the Therapeutics Commons (TDC) repository by adding documentation and making code improvements to various dataset loading and evaluation components. They added docstrings to the generation module and made changes to the `generation_dataset.py` and `tdc/chem_utils/evaluator.py` files. The user also added headers to benchmark-related files and integrated PyScreener for docking functionalities, enhancing the project's capabilities in the domain of drug discovery and related areas. The user updated the version.py.
therapeuticsdata-commonsbioinformaticsprecision-medicinescience
wenhao-gao/wenhao-gao.github.io
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:33 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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