Ananthan Nambiar
Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnanthan Nambiar is a data scientist and computational biologist with a PhD from UIUC and a decade of experience applying machine learning to biological systems. He develops interpretable models across protein language modeling, gene regulation, microbial community modeling, and genomic medicine, focusing on extracting biological insight rather than black-box performance. His PhD work helped illuminate how compact transformer models capture evolutionary constraints and epistatic relationships in proteins, and he has applied ML-guided GWAS to disease risk prediction. Soon to join the University of Washington as a Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow, he blends rigorous theory from complex networks with practical modeling for clinical and metagenomic data. Trained at Reed College in a liberal-arts setting, he brings interdisciplinary curiosity and early-career experience in industry internships and translational research that repeatedly bridge method development and real-world biological questions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
SPM, Pure Science, 8A+ 1A, SPM, Pure Science, 8A+ 1A at SMK Wangsa MelawatiCambridge International Advance Level, Science, A*A*A*A*, Cambridge International Advance Level, Science, A*A*A*A* at Methodist College Kuala LumpurBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Reed CollegeUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Malay, Malayalam, TamilProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
annambiar/PRoBERTa
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 4 months
maslov-group/DR-BERT
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes in 2 months
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