Vijay S. Pande | |
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Born | |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Langley High School Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | Folding@home, Genome@home |
Awards | Bárány Award (2012) DeLano Award (2015) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry, computational biology, molecular biology |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Academic advisors | Philip Anderson, Daniel S. Rokhsar |
Notable students | Jeremy England |
Website | a16z |
Vijay Satyanand Pande is a Trinidadian–American scientist and venture capitalist. Pande is best known for orchestrating the distributed computing protein-folding research project known as Folding@home.[1] His research is focused on distributed computing and computer-modelling of microbiology, and on improving computer simulations regarding drug-binding, protein design, and synthetic biomimetic polymers.[2][3] He is currently a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.