Karthik Balakrishnan

Karthik Balakrishnan is the founder and CEO of Nodexus. Prior to starting Nodexus, they were an NDSEG Fellow at the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, where they developed a platform to isolate and screen single cells. Karthik's work led to funding extensions of over $1M and external partnerships with market leaders.

Before their work at the NDSEG Fellowship, Karthik Balakrishnan was a researcher at Dabiri Biological Propulsion Laboratory, where they used jellyfish as a theoretical model system for fluid dynamic and behavioral aspects of biological propulsion. Karthik also developed a mathematical model of jellyfish wakes to identify manifolds of the flow and study fluid transport.

Karthik Balakrishnan's work in the field of biogels began as a William Hassenzahl Family Fellow at Ravichandran Experimental Solid Mechanics Laboratory, where they studied the mechanical properties of biogels.

Karthik Balakrishnan received a BS with honors in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech and a PhD and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Some direct reports include Anand Kesavaraju - Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Hany Nassef - VP, Engineering.