About
I am currently a scientist in the Institute of Computation at Altos Labs. Before moving to the Bay Area, I had a short stint at MathWorks as a senior application engineer in the computational biology group.
I am mostly interested in the intersection of biology, computation, modeling (statistical and first-principle), and artificial intelligence. Before pivoting to industry, I obtained a PhD at the University of California San Diego under the supervision of Prof. David Saintillan in computational biophysics to understand how our genome organizes inside the nucleus of a cell.
Prior to UCSD, I obtained an M.S.(Engg.) degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Bangalore, India) under the supervision of Prof. Meheboob Alam and a B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal.
Research Interests
Computational Biology & Biophysics
Modeling cellular processes from molecular to tissue scales, with focus on chromatin dynamics and gene regulation.
Statistical & First-Principle Modeling
Bridging data-driven and physics-based approaches to understand complex biological phenomena.
AI for Drug Discovery
Graph-based machine learning and deep learning methods for drug discovery.
Multiscale Modeling
Connecting nano-scale chromatin mechanics to micro-scale nuclear organization and epigenetic regulation.