17-yr-old Indian-American's AI method 68x more efficient, wins $25K scholarship

Pavan Subramani, a 17-year-old Indian-American student from West Virginia, has received a $25,000 Davidson Fellows scholarship for developing an AI-based method to accelerate molecular simulations. His research improved sampling efficiency 68-fold in a specific test and helped simulations reach equilibrium ligand-binding populations more than four times faster, potentially supporting future computational drug discovery research.