Ankit Gupta

ML leader applying AI to drug discovery and biotech

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joined September 2025

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Summary

Leader who builds ML-first drug‑discovery products: as Reverie Labs’ co‑founder and CTO, Ankit combined deep learning research with production engineering—building model & dataset registries, multi‑region cloud training/inference infrastructure, CI/CD, and generative molecular design tooling—and helped grow the company from founders to ~30 people and land major partnerships and funding before its acquisition by Ginkgo Bioworks. ankitg+2

Bridges deep research and product engineering: trained in academic ML (BA/SM Harvard, ICML workshop paper), he translated research ideas (e.g., dilated convnets for genomic tasks) into production systems and reproducible code (public GitHub repos), and earned multiple teaching awards while at Harvard—indicating both technical depth and an ability to teach complex concepts. ankitg+1

Operator at scale who integrates teams and infrastructure: his CTO role emphasized hiring and managing cross‑functional teams (machine learning, software, infrastructure, cheminformatics), designing secure multi‑account AWS environments, and operational practices (model versioning, automatic retraining/deployment) necessary to run ML‑driven therapeutic programs. ankitg+1

Active startup ecosystem connector and mentor: maintains an active public presence (X), writes reflective posts about building AI x bio companies, and works with founders as a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator—positioning him as both a practitioner and an advisor in ML‑driven biotech. x+2

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

How unfair is the coin? (blog post)

January 1, 2025

Longform blog post reflecting on building and selling an AI‑driven drug discovery company (Reverie), lessons about selling to pharma, business model pivots, and the dynamics that led Reverie to become a molecule‑owning company prior to acquisition.

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Dilated Convolutions for Modeling Long‑Distance Genomic Dependencies (ICML 2017 workshop)

January 1, 2017

Workshop paper presenting dilated convolution architectures for predicting regulatory markers across whole genomes, addressing long‑range dependencies in DNA sequences.

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Selected code & research repositories (harvardnlp/regulatory-prediction)

January 1, 2017

Code and data accompanying the ICML 2017 workshop paper (dilated convs for genomic regulatory prediction).

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Hobbies

Tennis, cars, and general interest in technology and startups; enjoys teaching and public speaking (TED/startup community). ankitg+1

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ICItamar Chinnsaid that if they were founding a company right now, they'd want

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as their mentor.

May 7, 2026

EDErik Duntemansaid they've seen

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lead successful AI projects in the pharmaceutical industry.

Dec 11, 2025

AGAayush Guptasaid they've seen

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provide especially valuable advice or investment to early-stage healthcare companies.

Nov 18, 2025

ARAshwin Ramsaid

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stood out to them for genuinely supporting open source AI projects through their investments.

Oct 24, 2025

GTGarry Tansaid they've seen

AGAnkit Gupta

thrive in early-stage startup environments, showing strong ownership and a builder mindset.

Oct 17, 2025

ASAvi Sarafsaid they consider

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one of the most capable AI/ML builders they've worked with.

Oct 7, 2025

GTGarry Tansaid they would rank

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among the top CEOs in neuro-focused biotech they've encountered.

Sep 5, 2025

ZJZlatko Joncevsaid that if they were launching a startup in Boston,

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would be one of the first early stage VCs or founders they'd reach out to.

Aug 10, 2025

ARArlan Rakhmetzhanovsaid they've seen

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apply their physics or simulation expertise to make a real impact in machine learning for life sciences.

Jul 24, 2025

ARArlan Rakhmetzhanovsaid they've seen

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make a big positive impact as a software engineer at a Seed or Series B startup.

Jul 12, 2025

ATAlok Tayisaid

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is one of the best startup investors they know in AI and biotech.

Jun 16, 2025

Nathan Benaich

Founder at Spinout.fyi

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Nan Li

Simon Barnett

Partner, Head of Research at Dimension

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Research Associate at Dimension

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Co-Founder at Physical Intelligence

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Summary

Work

Head of AI / Head of AI/ML AdvancementGinkgo Bioworks, Inc.2024–Present

Visiting PartnerY Combinator2024–Present

Co-Founder, CTOReverie Labs2017–2024

Research Engineer (Deep Learning)Vicarious AI2017–2017

Researcher & Head Teaching Fellow (CS 181, CS 182)Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences2016–2017

Software Engineering InternPalantir Technologies2016–2016

Software Engineering InternGoogle2015–2015

ResearcherHarvard Medical School2014–2014

Technology AssociateBridgewater Associates2014–2014

Education

A.B., Computer Science, magna cum laude with highest honorsHarvard University2013–2017

S.M. (Master of Science), Computer ScienceHarvard University2013–2017

Projects

Reverie Labs engineering & generative chemistry platform2017–2024

Thesis: Dilated Convolutions for Modeling Long‑Distance Genomic Dependencies2016–2017

Writing

How unfair is the coin? (blog post)

Dilated Convolutions for Modeling Long‑Distance Genomic Dependencies (ICML 2017 workshop)

Selected code & research repositories (harvardnlp/regulatory-prediction)

Hobbies

Tennis, cars, and general interest in technology and startups; enjoys teaching and public speaking (TED/startup community). ankitg+1

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