Vijay S. Pande

Vijay S. Pande
A portrait of Vijay Pande, looking straight ahead. His ethnicity is Indian. He has medium-length black hair, black-rim glasses, and a short mustache and beard. He is wearing a blue polo shirt under a black suit coat.
Pande in 2012
Born
Trinidad
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materLangley High School
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Known forFolding@home, Genome@home
AwardsBárány Award (2012)
DeLano Award (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, computational biology, molecular biology
InstitutionsStanford University
Academic advisorsPhilip Anderson, Daniel S. Rokhsar
Notable studentsJeremy England
Websitea16z.com/author/vijay-pande/

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.

  1. ^ "The Setup / Vijay Pande". 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  2. ^ "Stanford University - Vijay Pande". Stanford University. 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  3. ^ "About Me". 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-10-28. Retrieved 2011-10-25.