Nishan Karassik
Chief Innovation Officer, Founder
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSul Sharif is a multidisciplinary researcher blending organic chemistry, cheminformatics, and software engineering to accelerate life-science innovation. He is currently a Research Scientist in the Ghosh Group at MIT, bringing hands-on lab experience and software leadership honed at L7 Informatics to integrate experiment workflows with scalable applications. His career spans academia, biotech startups, and AI advisory roles, including Cannamatrix and Funxion, plus a governance seat on the Board of Directors at Standard Seed Corporation. An avid advocate for open-source scientific software and public life-sciences policy, he helped organize LifeSciHack 2019 and signed the Science Code Manifesto. He maintains an active GitHub presence (Sulstice), contributing to open-source projects that fuse chemistry, data science, and cloud-enabled tooling. He holds a BS in Molecular Biochemistry from UT Austin, an MS in Organic Chemistry from UC Riverside, and pursued a PhD in the MacKerell Group at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of Oregon - Charles H. Lundquist College of Business
Github Skills (168)
scientific-publications10
graph-algorithms10
chemoinformatics10
github10
python10
plotly-express10
coders10
combinations10
plotlyjs10
shieldsio10
unicorns10
ipywidgets10
chemistry10
interactive10
jupyter-widget10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Sulstice/sulstice.github.io
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:242 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Sulstice/Resumes
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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