Chirag Lakhani
Senior Research Scientist at New York Genome Center
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChirag Lakhani is a Senior Research Scientist at the New York Genome Center with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and genomic deep learning to interpret rare and common genetic variants implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Trained as a mathematician (Ph.D., NC State), he blends rigorous quantitative methods with biological insight, leading NIH-funded projects in the ADSP and collaborating across FunGen-AD to predict molecular QTLs. Prior roles at Harvard Medical School produced the Exposome Data Warehouse and a large-scale insurance-claims twin study, highlighting his ability to integrate heterogeneous population and environmental data with genomics. Comfortable moving between production research and foundational theory, his background includes work in topological approaches to machine learning and practical data science in industry. Based in New York, he maintains an active GitHub presence and is known for bridging computational innovation with translational genomics.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Mathematics, Ph.D, Mathematics at North Carolina State University
Spanish, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
fine-mapping10
memory-efficient9
parallel9
optimization9
statistical-genetics9
ray9
dna-sequences9
gaussian9
reinforcement-learning9
stochastic-processes8
python8
deep-learning8
gene-expression8
keras8
gwas8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cmlakhan/twinInsurance
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
cmlakhan/notebooks
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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