D V S Ravikant

• Hi, I am a computer scientist and software engineer based in the Silicon Valley. My interests are in algorithms, large scale data mining, information retrieval, mechanism design and machine learning.


• I completed my PhD in Computer Science from Cornell (graduated 2011), prior to that I did my undergrad in Computer Science from IIT Madras (graduated 2004). I was also part of the NBHM nurture program from IMSc. Prior to coming to US, I worked for a year at IBM Research (India Lab).

PhD Dissertation

• Learning to dock proteins - work with eminent BioPhysicist and Computational Chemist Dr. Ron Elber on protein quaternary structure prediction. Check out the protein-protein docking suite DOCK/PIE we developed. As of 2013, this is one of top four automated approaches for docking.

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