Computational chemists and engineers
A small team with deep expertise in DFT, transition state theory, and distributed computing. Independently funded and self-driven. Based in Kendall Square, Cambridge.
The people who built Qchemvyx
Preethi Sundaram
CEO & Co-founder
PhD in computational chemistry, specializing in transition metal catalysis and reaction mechanism mapping. Postdoc in electronic structure methods. Industry R&D at a specialty chemicals company, where the HPC queue bottleneck in catalyst screening became the founding observation behind Qchemvyx. Based in Cambridge since 2022.
Arjun Krishnaswamy
CTO & Co-founder
Distributed systems engineer with a background in large-scale batch compute. Previously designed the job scheduling and autoscaling infrastructure for a cloud hyperscaler's ML training platform. Built Qchemvyx's parallel DFT scheduler from first principles with a focus on heterogeneous workload packing.
Dr. Chen Mei
Head of Science
Theoretical chemistry PhD (Caltech). Published research in DFT functional development, spin-state energetics for transition metal complexes, and GMTKN55 benchmarking methodology. Leads Qchemvyx's scientific validation program and accuracy benchmarking against CCSD(T) references.
Dr. Omar Hassan
Lead Computational Chemist
Organometallic and computational chemistry. 40+ publications on transition metal catalysis, cross-coupling mechanisms, and DFT accuracy validation. Contributor to the GMTKN55 database and BHPERI benchmark sets. Advises Qchemvyx's functional selection and accuracy standards.