Ashok Ragavendran
Assistant Director, Computational Biology And Data Science
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolAshok Ragavendran is an accomplished computational biology and data science leader with 11 years of experience integrating software engineering and statistical genomics in academic research settings. As Assistant Director and former Manager of the Computational Biology Core at Brown University, he designs and oversees high-throughput NGS workflows, data analysis pipelines, and core operations that bridge wet-lab and computational teams. His background spans roles at Broad Institute and MGH, where he combined molecular biology knowledge with statistical modeling to deliver reproducible, scalable analyses for large genomic studies. Trained in ecology, statistics, and fisheries & wildlife (PhD), he brings an uncommon blend of population-genetics intuition and rigorous quantitative methods to bioinformatics challenges. Known for building effective core services, he focuses on operationalizing complex genomics workflows so researchers can move from data to insight reliably.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Ecology, Master's degree, Ecology at Pondicherry UniversityUniversity of GeorgiaPhD, Fisheries and Wildlife, PhD, Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada
Stackoverflow
101reputation
177reached
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Github Skills (54)
bioinformatics10
mkdocs9
package-management9
conda9
bioconda9
documentation9
computational-biology9
material-design8
pipeline8
gene-expression8
seq8
transcript7
rna-seq7
batch6
save6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
compbiocore/access_genbank
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 63 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 7 months
brown-ccv/ccv-ood-apps
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 48 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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