Chirag Jain
Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolChirag Jain is an Assistant Professor in Computational and Data Sciences at IISc Bangalore who leads the ATCG lab, developing mathematical and computational methods for data-intensive problems in molecular biology with applications in human genetics, infectious disease and cancer research. With 11 years of experience spanning a PhD from Georgia Tech and a postdoc at the NIH, he blends theoretical algorithm design with practical genomics workflows. His background includes industry-facing research at Intel Labs and award-winning dissertation work, reflecting a track record of translating rigorous computation into biomedical impact. Known for building algorithmic techniques that scale to large genomic datasets, he brings both deep academic insight and hands-on systems experience to interdisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (98)
approximate10
structural-variation10
microbial-genomics10
genomics10
ncbi10
minhash10
genome10
sequence-alignment10
pairwise10
metagenomics10
similarity10
genome-analysis10
bioinformatics10
dna-sequences10
seq9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marbl/Winnowmap
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
Long read / genome alignment software
Contributions:7 releases, 95 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 3 months
genome-analysisnanoporepacbio
at-cg/containX
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:60 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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