Vijay S. Pande
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Pande in 2012
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| Born | Trinidad |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Chemistry, computational biology, molecular biology |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
Langley High School Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| Academic advisors | Philip Anderson, Daniel S. Rokhsar |
| Notable students | Jeremy England |
| Known for | Folding@home, Genome@home |
| Notable awards |
Bárány Award (2012) DeLano Award (2015) |
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Vijay S. Pande is a biomedical scientist and professor of chemistry, structural biology, and computer science at Stanford University. Pande is the director of the biophysics program and is best known for orchestrating the distributed computing disease research project known as Folding@home. His research is focused on distributed computing and computer-modelling of microbiology. His research focuses on improving computer simulations regarding drug-binding, protein design, and synthetic bio-mimetic polymers. Pande became the ninth general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in November 2015.
Pande was born in Trinidad to Indian parents. He has two children and likes cats. Pande also worked briefly at the video game development company Naughty Dog as a teenager in the early 1990s, serving as a co-programmer and designer on their 1991 release, Rings of Power.
Pande graduated from Langley High School's class of 1988 while growing up in McLean Virginia. In 1992, Pande received his B.A. in Physics from Princeton University. He received academic advice from Nobel laureate Philip Anderson, T. Tanaka, and A. Grosberg for his BA and PhD theses on physics.MIT awarded him a PhD after his thesis in 1995.
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