Raviteja Vangara
Genomics ML at UC San Diego Health - Moores Cancer Center
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaviteja Vangara is a research engineer and machine learning scientist with a decade of experience building scalable AI systems for computational biology, genomics, and large-scale scientific computing. He led development of the widely used SigProfiler suite for cancer genome analysis and has architected multi-GPU/CPU pipelines that process 50+ TB datasets, work that contributed to an R&D 100 Award. His expertise spans matrix and tensor factorizations, unsupervised latent feature discovery, and generative models—practicalized through innovations like SPMatrixGenerator2 and custom NNLS/forward stagewise algorithms for sparse regression. Raviteja blends deep theoretical training (PhD in Engineering) with hands-on production and open-source impact, having mentored students and released tools cited in top journals. Based in San Diego, he now applies this blend of mathematical rigor and engineering to drive AI solutions in healthcare and industry, often optimizing for reproducibility and interpretable models. An uncommon strength is his track record of translating advanced numerical methods into user-facing, high-performance software used across research and clinical communities.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Chemical Engineering at National Institute of Technology WarangalPh.D, ENGINEERING, 4.04, Ph.D, ENGINEERING, 4.04 at The University of New Mexico
Github Skills (15)
bioinformatics10
probability10
mutation10
extraction10
genome10
matrix10
bed10
cancer-genomics10
signature10
genomes10
python9
visualization9
cuda1
nmf1
gpu1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AlexandrovLab/SigProfilerAssignment
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Assignment of known mutational signatures to individual samples and individual somatic mutations
Contributions:8 releases, 93 commits, 29 PRs in 9 months
individualsignaturessomatic-mutationsmutationsmutational-signatures
rvangara/starter-academic
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:109 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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