23 Feb 2025
Hayk Saribekyan is a highly accomplished Computer Scientist whose academic career spans top universities in both the UK and US. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar. Prior to that he received BSc and MEng degrees from MIT, during which he worked on high-performance computational methods for connectomics, a branch of neuroscience.
Hayk is now a R&D lead at Deep Origin, a startup building a computational drug discovery platform that combines physics and machine learning. The focus of his work is understanding how computational methods, such as molecular dynamics, can be used to predict properties of small molecules to build better drug candidates.
Having started his education with heavy emphasis in mathematics and computer science, Hayk competed in the International Mathematics, Informatics, and Astronomy Olympiads, earning Silver in Informatics and Gold in Astronomy. Since then, Hayk has gradually moved to applying those skills in physical sciences, which he greatly enjoys. He is based in London, and is happy to talk about any of his experiences, (computer) science, technology and innovation.
His LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayk-saribekyan/.