Pratyush Tiwary
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The award from the National Institutes of Health will support development of new methods to target precision medications.
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The assistant professor balances his life of high-level theory with down-to-Earth human connections.
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The theoretical chemist will use the award to apply artificial intelligence to the study of molecules and atoms.
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The Merrill Presidential Scholars Program honors the university’s most successful seniors, who each recognize a UMD faculty member and high school teacher for contributing to their education.
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Algorithms—like the ones that fill in words as people type—can learn to predict how and when proteins form different shapes.
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Over the last decade, UMD’s nominations yielded 33 scholarships—the most in the nation.
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Tiwary uses statistical physics, theoretical chemistry and artificial intelligence to develop algorithms that simulate the behavior of molecules on the atomic level.
