About
Shanil Panara is a cofounder and computational lead at Nanograb, with doctoral study in physics at Imperial College London. His expertise spans computational methods and physics applications.
Shanil Panara @shanilpanara
Looking forward to watching how it grows and finds new cases as the community continues to push it forward! π§¬π»π¬π§ͺ
Jul 9, 2025
Shanil Panara @shanilpanara
β¨ Congrats on the release of BAGEL β¨ I've been behind the scenes watching the huge amount of work from @jakublala, Ayham Al-Saffar & Stefano Angioletti-Uberti to make a framework for protein design that is grounded in decades-old Monte Carlo methods for denovo protein design! https://t.co/fc1ez91xSO
Jul 9, 2025 Β· β₯ 2 Β· β 1
Shanil Panara @shanilpanara
Please tell me why we write C++ or Cython when we now have #numba's njit to write everything in machine code π₯΅π
Oct 6, 2023 Β· β₯ 3
Founder at NanograbYC S23
Intro paths
Shanil went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Shanil can intro founders to Nanograb's investors below.
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Co-founders at Nanograb
Experience
- NanograbCo-Foundercurrent2023 β presentLondon
- Imperial College LondonDoctoral Candidatecurrent2021 β present
- Imperial College LondonThe Techtonics Publicity & Alumni Officer2018 β 2021London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College LondonUndergraduate Student Researcher2020
- Imperial College LondonA Cappella Society Publicity Officer2018 β 2019
- Nucleate UKNucleate UK Activator2022 β 2023
- PluvoIntern2019London, United Kingdom
- MEGAJumpReceptionist / Party Host2015 β 2017London, United Kingdom
Education
- Imperial College LondonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology2021 β 2025
- Imperial College LondonMEng, Materials Science and Engineering2017 β 2021
- Parmiter's SchoolA Level2015 β 2017
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Also worked at Nanograb3
Also worked at Imperial College London107
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