Nicholas Nystrom, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Nicholas A. Nystrom is a technology expert responsible for planning, implementation, and operations across artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), computational science, and strategic computing and data systems for Peptilogics. He also leads technology partnerships and is active in university relations.
Prior to joining Peptilogics, he was chief scientist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Across his career, Dr, Nystrom has led R&D efforts in advanced computing, computational chemistry, computer architecture, molecular dynamics, and performance engineering through collaborations with NSF, NIH, DoD, DOE, DARPA, NASA, and industry partners.
Dr. Nystrom earned his PhD in chemistry, specializing in quantum chemistry, from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also completed graduate coursework in physics.