Master of Science, Bioinformatics, 2014
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
B. Engineering, Biotechnology, 2011
The Oxford college of Engineering, Bangalore, India
Let me introduce myself.
I am a Computational Biologist working at the intersection of bioinformatics, microbiology of infectious disease pathogens and data science. I develop and deploy bioinformatics pipelines on cloud/HPC infrastructure leveraging large genomics and metagenomics datasets. I have delivered extensive analyses of data intense research projects/grants funded by federal health agencies in collaboration with regional public health agencies and universities. These projects studied genomic epidemiology of hospital pathogens, their transmission dynamics and evolution in hospital and community settings.
Before finding my passion for Bioinformatics, I used to be a Software Engineer at Capgemini where I developed and deployed web application for a telecom client - Alcatel Lucent using C#, asp.net and SQL. This experience provided me with the foundation of Software development life cycle and kickstarted my journey into coding.
In addition to my expertise in bioinformatics, I also work as a Data Scientist, utilizing my skills in Python, bash, R and data visualization to support R&D and grant proposals which includes hypothesis generation by performing proof of concept analysis with simulated data and applying novel algorithms to analyze multi-omics data.
Designed and conducted 3 day Microbial Comparative Genomics workshop at University of Michigan from 2017-2021. These workshops morphed into a semester long course Genomic Epidemiology and was offered in Winter 2022 and 2023.
Developed protocols/pipelines to streamline bioinformatics analysis of multi-omics data for multiple collaborative large scale public health projects.
Web application development with C# OOP, MS SQL and ASP.NET stack.
Strain Assignment from MetagenOme SNP Analysis
Co-authored 18 publications with 300+ citations.