Akshay Yadav
Senior Manager - Biomarker Data Scientist
India
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Top SchoolAkshay Yadav is a Senior Manager and Biomarker Data Scientist with 11+ years of experience at the intersection of computational biology, machine learning, and genomics. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and has led projects ranging from graph-based gene-disease-drug association discovery to DL-driven optimization of mRNA 5' UTRs and CDS for vaccine design. His work spans T-cell receptor–epitope prediction using protein-language-model embeddings, single-cell RNA-seq analysis in disease contexts, and longitudinal modeling of neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases. Akshay combines academic rigor with industry impact, having built production-ready NGS pipelines and novel sequence analysis methods during roles in academia and biotech. He is adept at translating advanced ML/DL and HMM/phylogenetic approaches into actionable biomarker insights for target selection and therapeutic design. Based in India, he brings a rare blend of deep methodological expertise and hands-on implementation across both research and product-focused teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 3.73, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 3.73 at Iowa State UniversityMaster's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
akshayayadav/ang-machine-learning-course
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
akshayayadav/protein-domain-evolution-project
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
Cyber Carpentry 2019 Project
Contributions:7 PRs, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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