Nikil K.-Undergraduate Student
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Experience
Capstone Project and Publication
SASTRA Deemed University
- Structure-Based Drug Design of Novel Inhibitors Targeting the Thiamine Biosynthesis Pathway in Bacteria
- High throughput Virtual Screening
- Lead Optimization by R-Group substitution and SAR analysis
- Molecular Dynamics and Analysis
- Preprint soon available at bioRxiv
Founder
Phage
- phage.netlify.app (Early Alpha Testing)
- Molecular Dynamics as a Service.
- Frontend web design
- Production Grade Molecular Dynamics Automation
- Backend Scaling, Optimization and Maintenance
- Agentic Engineering
Summer Internship
IIT Dharwad
- Development of Early-Stage Computational Drug Discovery Pipeline Using Python
- Virtual Screening, Rescoring and Statistical Analysis Automation
- Virtual Environment and dependency management using Conda
- Parallel High Performance Scientific Computing
- Benchmark of three SOTA machine learning architectures for protein binder design
Undergraduate Student Researcher
SASTRA Deemed University
- Molecular Motors Laboratory
- Drug Design and Protein Engineering
- Research Credits - Fragment Based Drug Design Of Anthelmintic using Genetic Algorithm
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Experienced in Pharmaceutical, Education, Biotechnology, and Information Technology.
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Experienced in Research and Development, Product Development, Information Technology, and Operations.
Summary
My academic and research interests lie in structural computational biology. My experience encompasses molecular visualization, design, and simulation. I am currently learning about artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for in silico drug design and protein binder design.
Skills
Ml Protein Structure Prediction
Alphafold
Boltz
Diffusion Based Models
Drug Design
Virtual Screening
Fragment Based Drug Design
Genetic Algorithm/Combinatorial Chemistry
Lead Optimization
Admet Analysis
Molecular Docking And Dynamics
Autodock
Diffdock
Gromacs
Openmm
Process Simulation
Aspen Plus
Superpro
Designer
Dwsim
Molecular Modelling
Chimerax
Pymol
Vmd
Moe
Schrodinger Maestro
Python
Molecular Visualization
Data Analysis
Machine Learning
Bioinformatics Pipelines
Dependency Management
Ai Automation
Bioinformatics
Linux
Blast, Msa
Visual Studio Code
Git Version Management
Scientific Computing
Ai Training
Data Annotation
Coding Agents
Prompt Engineering
Programming In Python
Languages
Education
SASTRA Deemed University
Bachelors of Technology · Bioinformatics · Thanjavur, India · 8.5/10
Specialization in Computational Biology with experience in Drug design, Python and Protein Engineering
Certifications & licenses
Drug Delivery: Principles and Engineering
NPTEL
Aspen Plus Simulation Software - A Basic Course For Beginners
NPTEL
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Qualifications
Profile
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Nikil is based in Thanjavur, India and prefers 100% remote projects.
Nikil speaks the following languages: Kannada (Native), Tamil (Native), English (Advanced), Hindi (Intermediate), Telugu (Elementary).
Nikil has at least 2 years of experience. During this time, Nikil has worked in at least 4 different roles and for 3 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 7 months. Note that Nikil may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Nikil would be well-suited for roles such as: Capstone Project and Publication, Founder, Summer Internship.
Nikil's most recent position is Capstone Project and Publication at SASTRA Deemed University.
In recent years, Nikil has worked for SASTRA Deemed University, Phage, and IIT Dharwad.
Nikil is most experienced in industries like Pharmaceutical, Education, and Biotechnology. Nikil also has some experience in Information Technology.
Nikil is most experienced in business areas like Research and Development, Product Development, and Information Technology. Nikil also has some experience in Operations.
Nikil holds a Bachelor in Bioinformatics from SASTRA Deemed University.
Nikil has 2 certificates. These include: Drug Delivery: Principles and Engineering and Aspen Plus Simulation Software - A Basic Course For Beginners.
Nikil is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
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