Rajiv Nagipogu

Lil’ Intro

Good tidings! This is Rajiv, a PhD student in the CompSci department at Duke. Here, I work with Prof. John Reif in the field of Natural Computing (huh?). Some sane people refer to this field as DNA Computing, as we use synthetic DNA molecules to create nanoscale computers in the chemical medium. Can we make them to be modular, self-sufficient systems? That is the question. When I am not worried about my future, I like to play chess/badminton, read classical literature, and watch movies. I occasionally write poems and stories here. Recently, I started penning down my dilettante views on Indian politics here .

PSA: If you are a prospective graduate student applying for PhD programs in Computer Science (or any other field , really) I highly recommend reading The Gradschool Talk by Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter.

Research Interests

• Natural Computing: dna computing, molecular computing, chemical reaction networks
• Machine Learning: chemical learning, adaptive molecular systems

Timeline

• [Jun 2024]: Paper published in the Royal Society Interface journal [Paper]
• [Aug 2022]: Awarded the GPNANO fellowship for the Fall 2022 semester
• [May 2022]: Defended the Research Initiation Project proposal
• [Aug 2021]: Joined the Computer Science PhD program at Duke University, Durham NC
• [Mar 2020]: Joined Google Research as a contract employee through Optimum
• [Dec 2018]: Left PayPal and joined Kenome.io
• [Aug 2017]: Joined PayPal
• [Oct 2017]: Paper accepted to MIKE 2017
• [Jul 2017]: Received my undergraduate degree from the CS department at IIT Madras
• [Apr 2017]: Submitted my undergraduate thesis on A Unikernel Webserver in Rust

Publications

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