The awards and societies along the way, education and experience side by side, and
everywhere the research has been presented, with the toolkit behind it at the end.
Awards and leadership
Awards
2024Student Government Association Conference AwardGeorgia Institute of Technology
2023–24Bio-IT World Conference Registration FundsCombinatics Inc.
2023Mark Borodovsky Prize for Excellence in BioinformaticsGeorgia Institute of Technology
2021US National Science Foundation Conference Award26th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society
2019Performance Excellence AwardUT MD Anderson Cancer Center
2014–15Jones NAS Biological Sciences ScholarshipUniversity of Houston – Clear Lake
2010Third Prize, National Technical Paper PresentationIEEE, India
2008Top Student Honour, National Standard ExaminationTop 10% nationally, India
Leadership and service
2022–25SKY at Georgia Tech: President, then AdvisorRaised >$20,000; well-being programmes reaching 1,000+ students.
2021–24Research mentor, 5 B.S./M.S. bioinformatics studentsNow at Mayo Clinic, Penn State, Moderna, and UT Southwestern.
2021Grant writing, Storici LabContributed to a $1M award from the W. M. Keck Foundation.
2023Emerging Leaders Advisory BoardAdvised Georgia Tech's VP of Student Engagement.
2020–22Asha for Education, Atlanta: SecretaryRan a half marathon raising funds for children's education in India.
Journey
EducationExperience
Postdoctoral Researcher Current
Apr 2026 – Present
University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center · Albuquerque, NM
Developing interpretable AI/ML models integrating EHR, genomics, and multi-omics data for cancer risk prediction.
Building longitudinal EHR phenotypes, linking clinical variables with large-scale genomic cohorts.
Contributing to foundation-model research for variant interpretation and tumour genome classification.
Collaborating across clinical oncology, statistical genetics, and genetic counselling.
AI Strategic Project Advisor, STEM Research
Apr – Jul 2026
Turing · Remote · three roles, Nov 2025 to Jul 2026
Advised a high-priority programme spanning 200+ subject matter experts, tied to $1M+ revenue.
Consulted on delivery planning and execution of custom dataset generation for frontier LLM clients.
Oversaw hiring, onboarding, and weekly targets to hold quality and sign-off timelines.
AI Evaluation Team Lead, STEM Scientific Coding · Dec 2025 – Mar 2026
Led and trained teams of 10–30 SMEs across bioinformatics, computer science, and machine learning.
Built a cross-domain STEM expert team from scratch across physics, chemistry, maths, biology, and scientific coding.
Designed rubrics, failure-mode taxonomies, SOPs, QA systems, and SME calibration workflows.
Contributed to proofs-of-concept, pilots, and large-scale multimodal HLE data generation.
Built reviewer guidelines, trainer materials, unit-testing protocols, and single-ground-truth factor analysis.
Bioinformatics Subject Matter Expert and Reviewer · Nov 2025
Analysed LLM transcripts to identify model breakage patterns in bioinformatics reasoning.
Aug 2019 – Jul 2025
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics Degree
Aug 2019 – Jul 2025
Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA
Minor in Machine Learning · GPA 4.00 / 4.00.
Thesis: distribution and features of ribomes, the genome-wide embedment of ribonucleotides in eukaryotic genomes.
Mark Borodovsky Prize for Excellence in Bioinformatics.
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
Aug 2019 – Jul 2025
Georgia Institute of Technology, Storici Lab · Atlanta, GA
Led research on a novel epigenetic layer in the human genome, analysing multi-omics data to uncover regulatory roles.
Published novel sequence motifs in a neuro-immune genetic disorder tied to DNA replication and repair.
Analysed enzyme expression and copy number across CCLE and TCGA in 33+ cancer types, producing an R package for multi-omics integration.
Contributed the preliminary analysis behind a $1M grant.
Mentored 4+ early-career bioinformaticians; trained 15+ students in Linux, Python, and R.
Storici Lab · Aug 2020 – Jul 2025
Conceptualised ribose-seq normalisation and ribonucleotide enriched zones (REZ).
New data-cleaning protocols for ribose-seq NGS libraries, doubling pattern-recognition accuracy.
Co-founded the Molecular BioMedical (MBM) Cancer student committee.
Presented at 8+ national and international conferences.
Rotational student · Aug 2019 – Jul 2020
Identified differentially methylated regions in 900+ HIV+ patients (Yale VACS); modelled survival with kNN and SVM.
Led genome assembly and comparative genomics teams tracing foodborne outbreak sources from CDC data.
Differential expression and pathway analysis in lung cancer lines across wild-type and multiple p53 mutants.
Lectured and graded courses for 20–250 students.
Research Assistant II
Oct 2015 – Jul 2019
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Hanash Lab · Houston, TX
Optimised and validated immunoassays for lung, pancreatic, colon, and ovarian cancer biomarkers.
Developed auto-antibody assays targeting alternative-splicing products and exosomes.
Processed patient blood in a CLIA-certified lab for double-blind early lung and breast cancer trials.
Batch normalisation and missing-data handling for cohorts of 300–7,000+ samples.
Validated novel protein markers in epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT).
Managed large-scale DNA vaccine production and in-house antigen/antibody production.
Integrated genomic and transcriptomic data with in-house mass spectrometry.
Aug 2013 – May 2015
M.S. Molecular Biotechnology Degree
Aug 2013 – May 2015
University of Houston – Clear Lake · Houston, TX
GPA 3.88 / 4.00 · Jones NAS merit scholarship.
Independent research: yeast two-hybrid screen of an asthma-patient lung cDNA library for iNOS interactions.
Capstone: high-yield monoclonal antibody production in CHO cells.
Laboratory Intern
Jan – May 2015
AnshLabs · Houston, TX
Led production of highly sensitive antigens in mammalian cell lines under GMP guidelines; supported ISO and FDA audits.
Screened, purified, and QC’d monoclonal antibodies from hybridoma clones for commercial ovarian cancer ELISA kits.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sep – Dec 2014
University of Houston – Clear Lake · Houston, TX
Liaison between students and faculty on applied biotechnology projects and course queries.
Trained teaching assistants to set up basic and advanced molecular biology labs.
Research and Teaching Assistant
Sep 2012 – Jul 2013
Usha Biotech Ltd. · Hyderabad, India
Tested proprietary vectors including the patented CELL EXPRESS-100™, using an eGFP reporter for stable antibody expression in CHO-K1 cells.
Molecular cloning of custom plasmid vectors and transfection optimisation supporting a patent filing.
Selected transfected pools and clones by fluorescence-activated cell sorting.
Trained students in mammalian cell culture.
Aug 2008 – May 2012
B.E. Biotechnology Degree
Aug 2008 – May 2012
Thadomal Shahani Engineering College · University of Mumbai, India
Third Prize, IEEE national technical paper presentation.
Thesis: stem cell therapy and wound care for diabetic foot complications.
Trainee
May 2011 – Apr 2012
S. L. Raheja Hospital (a Fortis Associate) · Mumbai, India
Reviewed literature and monitored clinical study and toxicology reports on stem cell therapy for diabetic foot complications.
Screened patients against inclusion criteria and supported biochemical testing.
Developed statistical standards for treatment efficacy from wound-closure measurements.
Conferences and talks
Conference presentations
2024TalkAicardi-Goutières syndrome: an RNase H2C mutation mimics the ribonucleotide patterns of an RNase H2B PIP-box mutationGeorgia Tech School of Biological Sciences retreat · Full funding
2024PosterAicardi-Goutières syndrome: RNase H2C mutation mimics RNase H2B PIP-box patternsBio-IT World Conference & Expo, Boston · Funded by Combinatics Inc.
2024Expo consultantCellKb: cell-type markers for annotation and discovery in scRNA-seq datasetsBio-IT World Conference & Expo, Boston · For Combinatics Inc.
2023Expo consultantCellKb: cell-type markers for annotation and discovery in scRNA-seq datasetsBio-IT World Conference & Expo, Boston · For Combinatics Inc.
2023PosterRibonucleotide incorporation in AGS-orthologous mutants of yeast RNase H2 subunitsBio-IT World Conference & Expo, Boston · Funded by Combinatics Inc.
2022TalkEffect of AGS-orthologous mutations on ribonucleotide incorporation in S. cerevisiaeRNASEH Conference, Maryland
2022TalkExpression correlation of RNASEH2A in cancer datasetsGlobal Virtual Congress on Cancer Research & Drug Development
2021PosterExpression correlation and copy number alteration prevalence of human RNASEH2A in cancer26th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society · NSF Conference Award
2011TalkGenetic algorithmsIEEE-EMBS National Technical Paper Presentation, Mumbai · Third Prize
2009TalkWater purification systemsBIOZEAL, Mumbai
Invited talks and lectures
2025Bioinformatics, Ribose-Map, and the PACE cloud computing serverResearch Project Laboratory (BIOL-4590), Georgia Tech
2024Distribution of ribonucleotides embedded in the nuclear genome of multiple human cell typesMBM Seminar Series, Georgia Tech
2024Distinct features of ribonucleotides in AGS-ortholog mutants in yeastMBM Seminar Series, Georgia Tech
2023The role of RNA in DNA repair and modificationRNA Biology and Biotechnology (BIOL-4560/8560), Georgia Tech
2023Bioinformatics and an introduction to the Ribose-Map toolkitResearch Project Laboratory (BIOL-4590), Georgia Tech
2020Data preprocessing and dimensionality reduction in biomedical and clinical settingsBiostatistics (APPH-6225), Georgia Tech
2019DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysisGenetics Lab (BIOL-2345), Georgia Tech
2010Time managementManagement course, University of Mumbai
