Vijay S. Pande
Vijay S. Pande | |
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Pande in 2012 | |
| 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. 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. He is currently a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.