User:Shantanusharma

Shantanu Sharma is a multidisciplinary researcher and computer scientist by training. He is working as a Lead Scientist in GE's Corporate Research headquarters in upstate New York. His interest lies in businesses grounded on research & technology. Prior to joining GE, he worked at Tower Research Capital, a hedge fund; Mismi, an algorithmic trading start-up; and Citigroup, a top-tier investment bank. Here, Shantanu's work was in algorithmic high frequency trading. In 2009, Shantanu graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a PhD in Biochemistry, with dual minor in Computational Biology, Molecular Biophysics. In 2004, Shantanu graduated from IIT Kanpur with a BTech in Computer Science & Engineering. Even earlier, he studied at Delhi Public School, Bhilai, where he was the Head Boy during 1999-2000.

Shantanu's doctoral dissertation was on "Computational modeling and automation techniques to study biomolecular dynamics", and his bachelor's thesis, on "A novel approach to structural comparison of proteins".