Pankaj Kumar
Associate Professor
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolPankaj Kumar is an Associate Professor and computational biologist with over a decade of experience translating genomics and machine learning into clinically actionable insights, currently based at UVA Health in Charlottesville. His research bridges single-cell and cell-free circular DNA, somatic mosaicism, and RNA biology—especially non-coding RNAs and tRNA fragments—to develop nucleic acid markers for cancer and other diseases. He combines deep learning and structural-variation analysis with experimental genomics, reflecting a trajectory from pathogen comparative genomics in his PhD to blood-based cancer biomarker discovery as a postdoc. Known for integrating computational methods with bench-driven questions, he has advanced understanding of circular DNA and double minute structures within cancer genomes. Colleagues note his knack for spotting subtle genomic signatures that evade standard pipelines, enabling new diagnostic avenues. He brings both rigorous academic training from CDFD and JNU and a practical focus on moving discoveries toward clinical application.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Lifesciences, Master's degree, Lifesciences at Schools of Lifesciences, JNU, New Delhi INDIAPh.D, Computational Biology: Genomics, Ph.D, Computational Biology: Genomics at CDFD, Hyderabad India
English
Github Skills (5)
bioinformatics9
python6
variants3
structural-variation2
assembly2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pk7zuva/Circle_finder
May 2016 - Aug 2021
Micro DNA identification
Contributions:66 commits, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 5 years 3 months
bioinformaticspythonidentificationdna
pk7zuva/ADFinder
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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