Akshatha Nayak
Graduate Research Assistant
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshatha Nayak is a computational cancer genomics researcher and PhD candidate with a decade of experience bridging bioinformatics, large-scale genomics, and applied machine learning. Having contributed to EMBL-EBI’s FAANG data portal and driven genome-scale analyses of non-B DNA structures and G-quadruplexes, she combines domain expertise in cancer biomarkers with practical engineering experience from roles at Oracle and Johnson & Johnson. Her work spans algorithm optimization for chromosomal breakpoint detection to validating ML models for preclinical drug safety, reflecting a rare mix of rigorous research and production-minded validation. Based in Austin, she is building a research program that interrogates how passenger mutations shape cancer development, bringing computational depth and cross-institutional collaboration to translational genomics.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (Transferred) Bioinformatics and Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Transferred) Bioinformatics and Genomics at Penn State UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, KottayamKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English, Hindi, Konkani
Github Skills (32)
markdown10
appwrite10
javascript10
dsa-algorithm10
portal10
stackoverflow9
binder9
frontend8
notebook7
terminal-app7
metadata7
pypi7
jupyter-notebook7
validate6
pygame6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Aksh77/seva-frontend
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
FAANG/dcc-kubernetes-configs
Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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