Avantika Diwadkar
Postdoctoral Scholar at Penn State College of Medicine
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAvantika Diwadkar is a bioinformatics and genomics researcher with nine years of experience applying multi-omic and computational approaches to complex diseases, currently pursuing a PhD at Penn State while serving as a Graduate Research Assistant. She has driven statistical model development to dissect genetic architecture of neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases and previously contributed to respiratory genomics and COVID-19 work at Penn Medicine. Her background spans industry and clinical research settings, including a computational biology internship at GSK and cloud-based informatics projects for pediatric health at CHOP. Avantika combines hands-on data science with domain expertise in genomics and biotechnology, bridging algorithm development and translational questions about biomarkers, disease-relevant genes, and cell types. She is comfortable working with public biomedical datasets and building analysis pipelines that inform drug response and precision respiratory medicine. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates complex genomic signals into actionable research insights.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics and Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics and Genomics at Penn State UniversityBachelor’s Degree Industrial Microbiology, Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Microbiology at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityMaster’s Degree Biotechnology, Master’s Degree Biotechnology at University of Pennsylvania
English, Hindi, Marathi, German
Github Skills (20)
bioinformatics7
biomedical-informatics7
bcftools7
genomics-visualization5
geospatial-analysis5
rna-seq5
bioconductor5
r-package5
genome5
data-science4
genes4
mobile4
r3
validation3
chip-seq2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HimesGroup/k12bioinformatics
Apr 2019 - Nov 2021
Teaching materials developed as part of NSF project to teach bioinformatics through mobile learning
Contributions:171 commits, 154 PRs, 78 pushes in 2 years 7 months
bioinformaticsmobile
Diwadkar/shiny-server
May 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:145 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
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