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| Adnan Akil (center) as well as Kevin Wu (right) |
UC San Diego alumni Adnan Akil as well as Kevin Wu staffed the academia.edu booth yesterday at the UC San Diego Science as well as Technology Job as well as Internship fair. They were busy recruiting software engineers to Academia.edu which describes itself every bit a platform for academics to part interrogation papers. Akil as well as Wu landed at Academia.edu past times means of a startup they co-founded: a peer-review platform called Plasmyd.
Almost a twelvemonth agone to the day, the proclamation came out that academia.edu acquired Plasmyd. At the time, Akil told pandodaily, “[Academia.edu has] built the largest online community of scientists piece we’ve been working on edifice the adjacent generation tools of peer review,” said Plasmyd’s co-founder Adnan Akil.
Headlines from media reports of the acquisition pigment a picture:
Akil, a Jacobs Scholar, was a bioengineering major at UC San Diego as well as went on to UC Irvine for graduate studies inward stalk prison theater cellular telephone biology. Wu studied bioinformatics at UC San Diego.
About a twelvemonth earlier the acquisition, Tech Crunch wrote this story: Meet Plasmyd, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Search Engine/Discussion Platform Just For Scientists
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