Dr. Ron Dror

Biography

Ron Dror is the Cheriton Family Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and leads a research group that employs molecular simulation and machine learning to elucidate biomolecular structure, dynamics, and function while guiding the development of effective medicines. He collaborates extensively with experimentalists in both academia and industry. Before joining Stanford, Dr. Dror served as the second-in-command at D. E. Shaw Research, a large company focused on molecular dynamics simulations. There, he designed computer hardware, software, and algorithms that accelerated simulations by orders of magnitude and applied them to the study of protein function, protein folding, and protein-drug interactions. Dr. Dror earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he developed machine learning methods for computer vision and genomics. He holds an M.Phil. in Biological Sciences as a Churchill Scholar from the University of Cambridge and undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Computer Engineering from Rice University, graduating summa cum laude. His work has received numerous awards and recognition, including being highlighted as one of the top-10 breakthroughs of the year by Science.

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