Varun G.

Varun G. has an extensive work experience in various roles and companies. Varun is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Epinoma, a position they have held since October 2020. Prior to that, they founded PodiVive in January 2020 and served as its Founder until October 2020.

In 2017, Varun founded Verde Lux, where they designed and implemented a non-traditional research pathway for underrepresented minority (URM) and low-income high school students in the San Diego area. Varun was the lead author on a 180-page primer textbook covering topics such as HIV, diabetes, microfluidics, and conducted 20 other case studies. Varun also integrated an immersive VR platform for lab techniques visualization. Varun worked at Verde Lux until May 2020.

From July 2019 to January 2020, Varun worked as a Computational Biologist at the University of California San Diego. In this role, they led a team of 5 undergraduates in developing and scaling a platform for Alzheimer's Disease detection. Varun designed a 14-layer convolutional neural network to extract lexical, semantic, and vocal features from Dementia Bank samples, achieving higher accuracy than existing methods using Random Forest and PNN classifier techniques.

Varun also founded Scrybe in June 2019, a company focused on revolutionizing collaborations and unified communications through real-time handwriting transcription on any surface. Varun worked on this venture until January 2020.

In 2018, Varun served as the North American Ambassador for After iGEM, and from March 2018 to June 2019, they worked as a Project Lead at Epinoma, where they led a team of 11 undergraduates in designing, prototyping, and pre-clinical validation of a liquid biopsy platform. Varun was awarded a patent for their work in February 2019.

Prior to that, from March 2017 to December 2017, Varun worked as a Project Lead at the University of California San Diego, where they designed a novel approach to address contamination in industrial fermentation. Varun used metabolic engineering techniques to import a pathway for D-tagatose production in cyanobacteria.

Overall, Varun G. has demonstrated expertise in entrepreneurial leadership, research, and product development in the fields of biotechnology, computational biology, and education.

Varun G.'s education history shows that they attended Amador Valley High School from 2012 to 2016, where they obtained their high school degree. Following that, they pursued a Bachelor's degree at UC San Diego from 2016 to 2020, majoring in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering. Currently, they are enrolled at the University of California, San Francisco since 2020, but no specific degree or field of study is mentioned for this period.