Vijay ChandruFounder

India - Bengaluru, Karnataka

An academic (professor of engineering and computer science for 23 years) turned entrepreneur. As an academic I got my PhD in the mathematics of decision sciences (aka operations research) at MIT in 1982. I taught and conducted research in the computational mathematics of optimization, geometry, logic and biology at Purdue University (1982-1993) and the Indian Institute of Science (1992-2005).

The vision that drove me to entrepreneurship was to create successful, world class, technology innovation companies out of India. In 1998, I joined hands with kindred spirits to create the Simputer (a handheld computer - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simputer). I also co-founded PicoPeta Simputers which commercialized the Simputer to create the Amida Simputer.

Strand Life Sciences www.strandls.com, the company I lead, started out as an exciting life science informatics company based in Bangalore, India. We captured around 30% of the global market for analytics software in research biology for the various "Omics" - genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.

Today, Strand Life Sciences is a global personalized medicine company using clinical genomics for oncology and inherited disorders. I also helped create non-profit agencies that work for neglected diseases communities see . Affordable Precision Medicine is now the vision that drives me.

Specialties: Scientific Leadership and Executive Management
Research Experience in Computational Mathematics