Prashant Gupta
Postdoctoral Fellow at Wellcome Sanger Institute
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPrashant Gupta is a postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute with a decade of experience applying deep learning and interpretable AI to genomics, cancer research, and cell biology. He builds and analyzes genomic language models trained on saturation genome editing data to prioritize lab experiments and reveal nucleotide-resolution activity patterns. With a PhD from IIT Delhi in computational biology and ML, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on engineering from roles spanning startups to industry R&D. His work uniquely connects causal and interpretable AI methods to experimental design, accelerating discovery by making model insights actionable for wet-lab validation. Based in Cambridge, he combines a systems-level view of complex biological networks with practical experience shipping ML solutions across research and product contexts.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communication Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology
Github Skills (54)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
jax9
forecast8
forecasts8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
princethewinner/ibmDataScienceChallenge-2018-BollywoodData
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Aashi-Jindal/CRCV
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 months
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