Computational biologist and
freelance web developer.
20351 Pinakibose is a minor planet discovered on April 19, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro. It was named for Pinaki Bose (b. 1992), a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC).
tl;dr: There's an asteroid named after me!
There is a great article about me in the Fall 2010 issue of Maverick Science, the official magazine for the UTA College of Sciences. The online version can be accessed here. Thanks, Greg Pederson, for a fantastic article!
The COS recognizes outstanding students in an annual awards ceremony. In 2011, I was awarded the Dennis S. Marynick Scholarship. In 2010 (my freshman year), I was awarded the Robert F. Francis Award for Outstanding Sophomore.
This was my second year as a finalist in the Discovery Channel Young Scientists' Challenge (see below). This page is now inactive, but an image snapshot of the page recovered from Google Cache is available here.
The Discovery Channel Young Scientists' Challenge is a national science competition for junior-high school students. From a pool of 40,000 qualified entrants, I was selected as one of the 40 finalists for my project about biodegradable polymers. The page is now inactive, but an image snapshot of the page recovered from Google Cache is available here.
