Premal Shah
Senior Director, Computational Biology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPremal Shah is a strategic R&D leader and computational biologist with 11 years of experience translating RNA biology and high-throughput genomics into drug discovery platforms. Currently Senior Director of Computational Biology in Cambridge, he has led interdisciplinary teams across academia and biotech—from assistant professorship at Rutgers to steering RNA design efforts in stealth-mode startups and industry programs. He builds proprietary computational-experimental workflows that accelerate target ID through pre-IND development, integrating AI/ML, advanced molecular profiling, and statistical modeling. Known for mentoring cross-functional scientists and securing collaborative funding, he pairs deep mechanistic insight into gene regulation and protein synthesis with pragmatic platform delivery. Less obvious: he repeatedly bridges academic rigor and startup velocity, moving technologies from foundational research in his postdoc to deployable RNA therapeutics pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleB. Tech, Biotechnology, B. Tech, Biotechnology at Anna University ChennaiPostdoctoral Researcher, RNA Biology, Postdoctoral Researcher, RNA Biology at University of Pennsylvania
Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil
Github Skills (17)
profiling10
visualization9
data-profiling9
rna-seq6
development-environment5
ide5
simulation4
simulations4
seq4
rstudio4
modeling4
python3
editor3
sequence3
near3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shahpr/shahlab
Apr 2016 - Jan 2021
Shah Lab Website
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
javascriptreactlablab-website
shahpr/RiboViz
Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
Analysis and Visualization of Ribosome Profiling Data
Contributions:95 commits, 18 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 3 months
visualizationprofilingribosome-profiling-dataribosome-profilingribosome
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.