Summary
Apoorva Babu is a bioinformatics scientist with a decade of experience translating large-scale NGS datasets into actionable insights, currently contributing to pediatric cancer research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She has deep expertise in RNA-Seq, single-cell RNA-Seq, ATAC-Seq and ChIP-Seq analysis, and a proven track record of designing reproducible pipelines and interactive web-based visualization tools used by researchers. Comfortable across R, Python, C/C++, MATLAB and web technologies, she also brings practical cloud experience with AWS and strong software-engineering habits from years of maintaining production tools. Colleagues rely on her technical leadership at UPenn’s Lung Biology Institute where she evaluates cutting-edge methods and applies statistical and machine-learning techniques to complex genomic problems. Quietly entrepreneurial, she pairs hands-on coding with user-focused design—training users and iterating on tools to make complex genomics accessible to bench scientists.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Bioinformatics at Sastra University
Master of Science (MS) Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Drexel University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam