Wilmington, Delaware
Satya Kokonda
Computational researcher and nonprofit founder. I use machine learning to design materials that are too complex to model by hand, and I run CompetifyHub, which gives students free access to competition training.
- Research
- Machine learning for materials discovery. Bioremediation of oil and plastic pollution.
- Roles
- Founder, CompetifyHub. President, Stanford OHS debate team. Lead, CSW Research Club.
- Education
- Charter School of Wilmington and Stanford Online High School.
3
Single-author papers in journals and IEEE proceedings
2
Active research tracks: materials design and bioremediation
60+
Countries reached by CompetifyHub resources
2024
Year CompetifyHub was founded
01 / What I work on
What I work on
Two research tracks and one nonprofit. Each has its own page.
Screening a chemical space by simulation costs weeks of compute per candidate. My materials work replaces most of that cost with learned models, then spends real simulation only on the survivors.
My second track is biological. Oil spills and plastic waste damage marine ecosystems, and current cleanup methods are slow or harmful. I study bacteria that already eat hydrocarbons, and the enzymes that make that possible.
CompetifyHub sits outside the lab. It publishes free competition material so that students without paid coaching can still prepare well.
A screening pipeline is only useful if the cheap filters agree with the expensive ones.
02 / Explore
Explore
Research
Machine learning for photocatalyst design, and wet lab work on bacteria that break down oil and plastic.
Publications
Three single-author papers in Catalysis Today and IEEE conference proceedings.
CompetifyHub
A nonprofit publishing free competition and olympiad material for students in 60+ countries.
Awards
National STEM recognition, innovation competitions, and math olympiad results.