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Rochester, Minnesota, United States

New York, New York, United States

• Performed quality control analysis of 2500 FASTQ files, leveraging fq2vcf for Bioinformatics Analysis to convert samples to VCF for further investigation of Alzheimer’s Disease in underrepresented populations• Designed an R package to evaluate 4 AD risk factors to visualize local ancestry distinguished by 3 major ancestry groups• Co-ordinated with post-docs to troubleshoot errors in pipeline set-up and multi-tasking jobs (qsub, Unix) on HPC cluster• Conducted deconvolution of… Show more • Performed quality control analysis of 2500 FASTQ files, leveraging fq2vcf for Bioinformatics Analysis to convert samples to VCF for further investigation of Alzheimer’s Disease in underrepresented populations• Designed an R package to evaluate 4 AD risk factors to visualize local ancestry distinguished by 3 major ancestry groups• Co-ordinated with post-docs to troubleshoot errors in pipeline set-up and multi-tasking jobs (qsub, Unix) on HPC cluster• Conducted deconvolution of RNAseq data to single cell compositions to determine biomarkers using CIBERSORTx Show less

Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States

• Investigating clinical signatures for cancer gene/protein expression from public databases• Exploring correlation patterns between RNA expression and proteomics in cancer cell lines• Visualized correlation distributions and compared them using Earth Mover’s Distance• Ingesting and pre-processing scRNA cancer datasets into Bioinformatics pipelines

New York, United States

Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics at Columbia University under Professor Karol Nowicki-Osuch• Conducting Genomic Data Analysis to identify role of extrachromosomal DNA in the evolution of cancer, using UNIX, Linux and RStudio tools.• Handled setting up CNVKit and AmpliconArchitect for analyzing BAM and VCF files for gene data• Collaborating with Professor Karol Osuch-Nowicki and a student to ensure smooth workflow

• Conducted Research for a Point-of-Care based device to detect DNA related disorders• Proposed Ideas to use different fluorophores for detection of DNA/PCR amplicons • Initiated exploring Electrochemical Methods for DNA detection for higher accuracy • Compared different Molecular beacons for detection of DNA based target • Assisted in device set-up for detection of nucleic acids alongside 10 team members

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Produced somatic clones of Turmeric and Ginger variants through direct organogenesis • Led greenhouse operations for producing 250 germinates of the plant species• Performed Plant Tissue Culture to obtain over 300 somatic clones of variants• Managed lab equipment for Plant Tissue Culture in Laminar Air Flow, Media Preparations, and conducted Literature Reviews to verify experiment conducted

India

• Collected papers from four different databases, Google Scholar, SAGE, DOAJ, PubMed• Arranged papers from oldest to newest based on year of publication • Collaborated with 6 members and a Scientist to develop a Review Article • Drafted parts of the Abstract and Discussions in the Published Paper along with Mentor

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Used crowdfunding skills to raise funds to support projects to help the underprivileged kids to receive education.

• Executed a study on Beef Consumption in Rhode Island based on Food and Supply Chain• Gathered information using Web-scrape tools regarding beef consumption, production, import and sales in Rhode Island from U.S Food and Drug Administration• Employed Data Sciences Tools and Techniques to analyze data scraped from the web • Prepared a Research Article (as the Sole Author) with Time-step analysis and data science

Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

- Worked extensively in a Bio-Entrepreneurship driven Club. - Organised Events related to Biotechnology and Entrepreneurial options- Conducted Weekly Webinars on various Biological Fields and also inter-disciplinary topics like Bio-Machine Learning

Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

- A club in the Co-Curricals of VIT University Vellore focusing on the Trends of Biotechnology.- Organized events related to Biotechnology field and its developments and was a part of club's activties, incluidng the bi-monthly release of the Magazine owned, written and edited by the members.

Master Of Science - Ms, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics

Coursework: Tissue Engineering, Functional Genomics, Statistical Machine Learning for Genomics, Machine Learning for Functional Genomics.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Biotechnology

Activities and Societies: Alpha Bio Cell, SABEST Coursework: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Immunology.

Pre University Course (Secondary Board Of Education), Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics And Biology, 91%

Activities and Societies: Served as House Captain of Athena house and actively participated in various sports and extra curricular.

Icse, 94%

Served as Junior Prefect and House Vice Captain of Theobald House. Participated actively in Sports and Public Speaking. Was awarded Best.