"I help clinicians and biologists achieve their dream of developing and delivering precision medicine and treatment to patients, using my data analytics and AI skills."
"As an experienced data scientist, I see myself holding a central role by providing actionable insights and enabling data-driven decisions to stakeholders -- policy makers, senior management, scientists, software developers as well as end-user customers."
I am a cross-disciplinary (biomedical) data scientist, bioinformatician, and software developer.
I am experienced in data analytics including machine learning applied to molecular omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics), radiomics (mpMRI and CT radomics),
and clinical (e.g. EHR, survival) datasets for clinical applications including patient diagnostics and treatment recommendations.
I have built extensive ML pipelines deployed on the AWS cloud with aesthetically pleasing front-end (Web-based) interface for
data analytics [Check them out] (restricted access only).
Feb 2020 - Sep 2023: Advance Queensland Fellow at QIMR-Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020: Freelancing and contracting for bioinformatics and omics-based analysis and machine learning applications. I work with:
Prof Rajiv Khanna AO, Tumour Immunology Laboratory at QIMR-Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia (my title: Scientific Officer) - 2 days/week
Xing Technologies: Machine learning applications for omics-based diagnostics and treatment recommendation for patients (my title: AI Specialist) - 1 days/week
Dec 2017 - Jan 2020: AI Engineer and Researcher, Maxwell Plus (an AI startup), Brisbane, Australia
Jan 2018 - Jan 2020: Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Australia (Honorary)
Jan 2016 - Dec 2018: Senior Research Officer at Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and Centre for Clinical Research (CCR), The University of Queensland, Australia
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018: Senior Research Scientist at South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, Australia
Aug 2012 - Dec 2015: Research Officer (Postdoctoral Fellow) at Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
May 2012 - Aug 2012: Relocating from Singapore to Australia
Feb 2012 - Apr 2012: Research intern at Bioinformatics Institute A*STAR, Singapore
Jan 2008 - May 2012: Pursuing PhD at National University of Singapore
Oct 2007 - Dec 2007: Tutor at Jaagrut Educational Services Ltd., Bangalore, India
Jul 2007 - Oct 2007: Research intern at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
Linkedin Skills Assessment Badges: R, C/C++, SQL, MS Excel
Software programming: Proficient in R, building Shiny-based apps, C/C++, PL/SQL; Familiar with Python, HTML
Machine learning: Statistical machine learning (random forests, GLM, XGBoost); ML packages in R (e.g. Caret); Predictive analytics; Familiar with deep learning (CNNs and UNets using Tensorflow)
Front-end/Interactive graphics: Shiny and Plotly with R
Databases: Proficient in database design, queries, and procedural coding using Oracle and PL/SQL
Business intelligence: Familiar with Amazon Quicksite
On the Cloud: AWS including EC2 and S3
Bioinformatics tools: GraphPad Prism, GO and Pathway analysis
Experience with writing regulatory documents for Software as a Medical Device for CE (TUV)
'American Association for Cancer Research - Supported by Susan G Komen Scholar-in-Training award' of USD 1,000 for "Identifying genetic vulnerabilities in cancers driven by defects in DNA-damage response"
at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (2015)
Ian Potter Travel Grant (competitive, peer-reviewed) AUD 1,600 by Ian Potter Foundation Australia (2015)
Institute for Molecular Bioscience Travel Grant AUD 2,000 to attend Cold Spring Harbor Conference (2014)
Genome Informatics Workshop (GIW) Travel Grant JPY 50,000 by Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (2009)
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Travel Grant USD 500 by International Association for Pattern Recognition (2008)
PhD in Computer Science from National University of Singapore (awarded May 2012)
Thesis: Integrating biological insights with topological characteristics for improved complex prediction from protein interaction networks (under the guidance of Prof Hon Wai Leong)
Evaluated by: Profs Limsoon Wong (NUS), Wing-kin Sung (NUS), Daisuke Kihara (Purdue); Chaired by: Prof Anthony Tung (NUS)
CGPA: 4.3/5.0 (5 graduate-level courses)
Awarded NUS PhD Research Scholarship
MSc in Computer Science (Computer Networks) from Nanyang Technological University Singapore (awarded July 2007)
Thesis: Real-time credit card fraud detection using computational intelligence (under the guidance of Prof Tong Seng Quah)
CGPA: 4.38/5.0 (8 graduate-level courses)
BTech (Honours with Distinction) in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India (awarded May 2003)
Thesis: Minimum variance Huffman coding for on-the-fly text compression over network (under the guidance of Prof V K Govindan)
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) -- Associate Member (2015 - )
European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) -- Young Investigator Member (2015 - )
American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) -- Trainee Member (2019 - )
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) -- Professional Member (2017 - 2018 )
Continuing Medical Education (CME), San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (2015) [Certificate]†
Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi) (2009 - 2010)
International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) (2008 - 2009)
Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Editorial Board member for the cancer theme (Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Systems biology) [Certificate of appreciation] Methods (Elsevier), Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Systems Approaches to Identify Disease Genes and Drug Targets (~15 articles), 2018.
Regular reviewer for the following journals and conferences: Bioinformatics; BMC Bioinformatics; BMC Systems Biology; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Scientific Reports
BMC Genomics; BMC Gastroentrology; FEBS Letters; MPDI Genes; Methods; Molecular Biosystems; Nucleic Acids Research; Scientific Reports;Clinical & Translational Immunology
ACM Computing Surveys; Int J Data Mining Bioinformatics;
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing; Genome Informatics Conference; Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference; Bioinformatics and Biomedicine;
"I help clinicians and biologists achieve their dream of developing and delivering precision medicine and treatment to patients, using my data analytics and AI skills."
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