Pravin Kumar

About Pravin Kumar

Pravin Kumar believes that artificial intelligence holds the potential to revolutionize the development of industry-ready enzymes and proteins.With 20 years of industrial experience, Pravin has contributed to diverse projects in target deconvolution and enzyme engineering. He has authored and co-authored numerous patents and research publications, showcasing advanced techniques such as protein modeling, quantum mechanics integrated with molecular dynamics, 4D QSAR, 7D grid AI for protein design, and AI-driven CRISPR applications to unravel the complexities of proteins and enzymes.Developed the \'Enzyme Engineering Framework (EEF)\', composed of algorithms such as QM/MM, QSAR methods and Artificial intelligence-based protein design.Invited speaker at several international conferences, including1. Enzymology and Molecular Biology, August 13-14, 2018, Paris, France \"A novel 7D-QSAR approach, combining QM based grid and solvation models to predict hotspots and kinetic properties of mutated enzymes: An enzyme engineering perspective\".2. 15th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science & Technology - Japan 2017 (IDDST-Japan 2017)3. Enzyme Engineering Conference XXIV, 2017, Toulouse, France “Novel quantum mechanics-based engineering approach enables transaminase to convert bulky ketone substrates.”4. 3DSIG: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics, Boston, July 2014, A Novel Grid-Based Method to Predict Enzyme Activity and to Select Mutations for Enzyme Engineering5. Enzyme Engineering Conference XXII, 2013, Toyoma, Japan, “4D QSAR to predict activity of modified enzymes.”Reviewer for the following peer-reviewed journals1. J. Molecular Catalysis2. J. Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics3. J. Computational Biology & Chemistry4. J. Pharmaceutics & Drug Development5. J. Mathematics & Theoretical Physics6. ACS CatalysisPresently he is the CSO of Kcat Enzymatic Pvt Ltd. In the present assignment, he has developed three patented technologies specific to Protein Optimization.

Experience

1. Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

   Kcat Enzymatic Private Limited

   Jan 2018 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  Doctor of Philosophy

• Bharathiar University

  Doctor of Philosophy

• Bharathiar University

  PG Diploma

• Periyar University

  M.Sc