Ashir Borah
PHD Graduate Student
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshir Borah is a PhD candidate in bioinformatics at UCSF and the Arc Institute with nine years of experience applying computational and wet-lab methods to functional genomics. He has advanced expertise in analyzing whole-genome CRISPR knockout screens and developing machine learning and statistical approaches to identify cancer vulnerabilities, with a particular focus on GI cancers. At the Broad Institute he helped validate genetic targets that could translate into therapeutic leads, and at UCSF he teaches R to clinicians and postdocs, blending pedagogy with hands-on data analysis. Ashir’s background in math and computer science (Magna Cum Laude) and early work building ML systems and infrastructure gives him a rare combination of rigorous quantitative skills and practical engineering judgment. He’s driven by translating large-scale genomic data into experimentally actionable hypotheses and enjoys mentoring others to close the gap between computation and the bench.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.89 Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.89 Magna Cum Laude at Dickinson CollegeAll India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE) - CBSE, English, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science, 11 and 12, All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE) - CBSE, English, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science, 11 and 12 at Delhi Public School - R. K. PuramAll India Secondary School Examination - CBSE, English, Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology), Social Science, Mathematics, Sanskrit, 2 to 10, All India Secondary School Examination - CBSE, English, Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology), Social Science, Mathematics, Sanskrit, 2 to 10 at Delhi Public School, Guwahati
English, Hindi, Assamese
Github Skills (56)
react-virtualized10
r-package9
ipython9
visualizer9
flask9
jupyter-notebook9
react8
gene-expression8
visualization8
r7
plotly-dash7
pandas7
python7
data-structures6
data-visualization6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AshirBorah/Bootcamp_R_tutorials
Jun 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:53 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
broadinstitute/depmap-crispr-vs-rnai
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
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