Vijay Chandru
Building CrisprBits | Built Strand | Bioconvergence | Author
- Role
- Co-founder at Crisprbits Private Limited
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vijay Chandru
Co-founder of CrisprBits, a platform-first biotech company committed to engineering CRISPR into scalable solutions across diverse industries. CrisprBits is building the future of gene technologies with our proprietary platforms for molecular diagnostics and next-gen precision gene editing.I co-founded CrisprBits with my engineer friends from BITS Pilani with a clear vision that is simple yet ambitious: to democratize CRISPR for the next billion lives. I have been an academic (professor of engineering and computer science for 23 years) turned entrepreneur. As an academic I got my PhD in the mathematics of decision sciences (aka operations research) at MIT in 1982. I taught and conducted research in the computational mathematics of optimization, geometry, logic and biology at Purdue University (19••••93) and the Indian Institute of Science (19••••05). The vision that drove me to entrepreneurship was to create successful, world class, technology innovation companies out of India. In 1998, I joined hands with kindred spirits to create the Simputer (a handheld computer - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simputer). I also co-founded PicoPeta Simputers which commercialized the Simputer to create the Amida Simputer.Strand Life Sciences the company I led as executive chairman from till 2018, started out as an exciting life science informatics company based in Bangalore, India. We captured around 30% of the global market for analytics software in research biology for the various \"Omics\"- genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.Today, Strand Life Sciences is a global personalized medicine company using clinical genomics for oncology and inherited disorders. I also helped create non-profit agencies that work for neglected diseases communities see. Affordable Precision Medicine is now the vision that drives me. Specialties: Scientific Leadership and Executive ManagementResearch Experience in Computational Mathematics
Experience
Co-founder
Oct 2020 — Present · IN
Deep Science And Tech Innovation with CRISPR and Data Science mediated solutions in diagnostics, industrial biotechnology and therapeutics.
Education
UCLA
MS, Engineering Systems
1975 — 1977
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
BE (Hons), Electrical Engineering
1970 — 1975
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research
1977 — 1982
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence
- Genomics
- Hardware Diagnostics
- Lifesciences
- Computational Biology
- Algorithms
- Data Analysis
- Life Sciences
- Systems Biology
- Machine Learning
- Mathematical Modeling
- Bioinformatics
- Data Mining
- Molecular Biology
- Science
- Computer Science
- Research
- Entrepreneurship
- Drug Discovery
- Optimization
- Logic Programming
- Genetics
- Biotechnology
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Leadership
- R&D
- Sequencing
- Statistics
- Operations Research
- Informatics
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