Abhiraman "Abhi" Senthilkumar

University of MarylandAug 2022 - May 2026

Dual Degree, Chemical Engineering and Computer ScienceGPA: 3.97

• Member of Integrated Life Science Honors College
• President's Scholarship, National Merit Scholar, Clark FIRST, Clark Steyer Scholarship, David Goff Scholarship
• Relevant Coursework: Algorithms, Thermodynamics, Computer Systems, Fluid Dynamics, Bioinformatics, Data Science, Modern Physics, High Performance Computing, Organic Chemistry, Programming Language Organization

University of ZürichSep 2024 - Jan 2025

Exchange Student, Department of Informatics

University of Maryland, Laboratory of Molecular and Thermodynamic ModelingOct 2022 - Present

Undergraduate Research Assistant | Dr. Jeffery KlaudaCollege Park, MD

• Perform molecular dynamics simulations of cellular interactions on the nanosecond scale using the Zaratan HPCC
• Analyze the impact of mutations on the ability of MAP, a cell-penetrating peptide, to enter the lipid bilayer
• Developed code in Python and Tcl to automate electron density profile generation, saving hours per simulation

University of Chicago, Ferguson LabJun 2024 - Aug 2024

Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering NSF REU Intern | Dr. Andrew FergusonChicago, IL

• Developed scripts to perform protein-motif scaffolding using the ProteoScribe diffusion model
• Benchmarked performance against competitor models such as EvoDiff and RFDiffusion
• Automated pipeline to fold proteins and calculate motif RMSD across hundreds of replicates

National Cancer Institute, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental SignalingJun 2021 - Aug 2023

Werner H. Kirsten Student Intern | Dr. Christopher WestlakeFrederick, MD

• Segmented electron microscope images of cells using ORS Dragonfly to better understand ciliogenesis
• Generated scientific images and movies using Dragonfly and Kdenlive and mentored five students over two summers

UMaryland International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)Jan 2023 - Present

Modeling Chair

• Organize meetings of a dozen students and manage multiple projects while interfacing with other committees
• Developed a mass-action model to understand the change in luminescence in our cervical pre-cancer screening kit

Terrapin RocketsSep 2023 - Present

Avionics Member

• Prototyped a Linear Kalman Filter in MATLAB and ported to C++ to perform sensor fusion during rocket flight

Tau Beta Pi - The Engineering Honor SocietyMay 2023 - Present

Omega Chi Epsilon - The Chemical Engineering Honor SocietyMay 2024 - Present

OutsideCam | Python, Flask, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Shell Scripting

• Implemented a camera connected to an Arduino Nano outside my window to take a picture every five minutes
• Transferred images over SCP to my Raspberry Pi and generated a daily GIF timelapse using PIL and FFMPEG
• Hosted on my website at images.abdeet.net/outsidecam using Flask with Gunicorn and Nginx

Hydrocarbon Cracking | MATLAB, Thermodynamics, Process Engineering

• Developed a program to find the ideal temperature and pressure to decompose naphtha into lighter hydrocarbons
• Coded departure functions for Peng-Robinson equation of state to find energy usage

Languages: Python, Java, C/C++, OCaml, MATLAB, Rust, R, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, German (A2)

Libraries and Frameworks: Flask, PyTorch, Pandas, Matplotlib, JUnit

Tools and Software: Git, Linux, Apache, Nginx, SLURM, Emacs, Arduino, ORS Dragonfly, Excel