Vijay Pande
My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, Bayesian statistics, atomistic simulation, bioinformatics, and cheminformatics methods and its application to problems of linking drug efficacy and side effects to geneomics and systems biology. My group also has expertise in related synergistic areas, such as theoretical physical chemistry, structural biology, computer science, and large-scale distributed computing. By combining our methods with the Folding@home distributed computing project (currently the most powerful supercomputer in the world, with almost 10 petaflops of performace), we have a unique opportunity to push the state of the art in these and related areas. Finally, via collaborations with biotechs, pharmaceutical companies, and experimental groups interested in drug design, we can directly test our predictions, thus strengthening our methods as well as the direct impact of our results.