Thomas Desautels

Thomas Desautels is a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since October 2017, where co-development of the intellectual foundation and core system code for a program focused on antibody and vaccine antigen design has been a primary responsibility. Leadership of software, HPC workflow, simulation, and machine learning efforts has been integral to the maturation of the antibody/antigen design system as Principal Investigator for a Laboratory-Directed Research & Development project and as Co-Investigator on related projects. Previous experience includes positions as Senior Engineer at Dascena, where Thomas contributed to a machine-learning system for detecting sepsis and mortality risk, and as Visiting Research Associate at University College London, conducting research on Neural Decoding. Thomas also held a Graduate Student Research Assistant role at Caltech, focusing on developing automated methods for controlling epidural electrostimulating implants. Academic credentials include a Ph.D. and Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech, along with a Bachelor’s in Biomedical/Medical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.