Experience

My Journey Through Computational Biology: From Data Analysis to Modern AI

2024 — 2026 work

Researcher

Ideker Lab, UC San Diego, USA

Developed deep-learning approaches for modelling and transferring perturbation responses across biological contexts, with a focus on biologically meaningful prediction and evaluation.

Deep-Learning Perturbation Modelling Benchmarking Modern AI
2022 — Present work

MSCA Doctoral Fellow

GoldLab, University College Dublin, Ireland

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship — competitive EU-wide award

Developed computational approaches to identify and characterise regulatory non-coding RNA targets using functional genomics, CRISPR perturbation, and multi-omics data.

lncRNA Discovery Regulatory Genomics Multi-omics CRISPR Screens
2019 — 2022 work

Bioinformatician

Onkoslab, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), India

Applied computational genomics and machine learning to study cancer regulatory mechanisms, tumour heterogeneity, and biomarkers of immunotherapy response across bulk and single-cell datasets.

Cancer Genomics Multi-omic Nextflow FAIR principles
RESEARCH PROJECTS

HyperMAP

PyTorch meta-learning framework that transfers gene and drug perturbation responses across biological contexts.

PyTorch Deep-Learning Perturbation

TransCistor

Cis-regulatory lncRNA discovery framework characterising 268 human and 134 mouse regulatory targets at controlled false-discovery rates.

lncRNA Regulatory Genomics R

p53 mutant landscape

Differential chromatin accessibility landscape of gain-of-function mutant p53 tumours.

TCGA Cancer Genomics Multi-omics

Immunoproteasome

Exploring prognostic association of immunoproteasome expression in solid tumours.

TCGA Immunotherapy Cancer Genomics Biomarkers
Consortia & Collaborations

FANTOM6 — RNA–DNA Interactome

Investigating regulatory elements involved in RNA–DNA interactions. Exploring links between DNA–DNA and RNA–DNA interaction landscapes.

Multi-omics Consortium RADICL-seq RNA regulation