CV

Full CV can be found here

Education

• Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2025 (expected)
  • Advisor: Dr. Joseph Lachance
  • Research Topics: Evolution, Cancer, Population Genetics
• Integrated B.Tech. & M.Tech. in Biological Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2020
  • Minor: Computational Biology
  • Master’s Advisor: Dr. Karthik Raman
  • Master’s Research: Comparative Topology of Circadian Oscillators Across Species

Work experience

• Spring 2021 - present: Doctoral Student Researcher
  • School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  • Advisor: Dr. Joseph Lachance
• Fall 2020: Postbaccalaureate Research Scientist
  • Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore
  • Advisor: Dr. Mohit Jolly Kumar
• Summer 2019: Undergraduate Student Researcher
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
  • Advisor: Dr. Karthik Raman

Awards & Honors

• 2024 - J. Leland Jackson Fellowship Best Paper Award (Georgia Tech)
• 2024 - College of Sciences Graduate Career Connect Travel Grant (Georgia Tech)
• 2022 - Genetic Society of America Presidential Membership Award
• 2021 - University of Washington Statistical Institute of Statistical Genetics Scholarship
• 2018 - Madan Gopal Damani Prize for academic excellence (IIT Madras)
• 2017 - Indian Academy of Sciences Fellowship

Conferences

• Platform talk on Heterogeneous genetic architectures and evolutionary genomics of prostate cancer in Sub- Saharan Africa at Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution 2024
• Poster on Leveraging site frequency spectra to infer clonal interference and identify cryptic driver mutations at International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer 2024
• Poster on Uncovering the genetic roots of androgenic alopecia in African men: a novel dataset reveals ancestry-specific loci and pathways at American Society of Human Genetics 2023
• Poster on Modeling clonal interference and context dependency of mutations that affect different hallmarks of cancer at Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis 2023
• Platform talk on A multi-population African GWAS for prostate cancer reveals novel disease associations and within-continent heterogeneity of cancer risk at American Society of Human Genetics 2022