Sehrish Kanwal
Senior Research Fellow at R-Ladies Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSehrish Kanwal is a Senior Research Fellow and lead bioinformatician at the University of Melbourne with a decade of experience translating computational genomics into clinical impact. With a PhD in Computing and Information Systems and a BS(Hons) in Bioinformatics, she has led large collaborative projects, managed complex cancer genomics datasets, and supported competitive grant wins that produced high-impact publications. She contributes to community-scale open-source tooling—enhancing the widely used bcbio-nextgen RNA‑seq workflow—demonstrating hands-on pipeline and CWL proficiency. A committed educator and mentor, she teaches computational genomics subjects and co-organises R-Ladies Melbourne to support women in tech. Her work combines rigorous reproducible methods with a focus on translational outcomes and inclusive scientific practice.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bioinformatics, Bachelor's Degree, Bioinformatics at COMSATS Institute of Information and TechnologyHigh School, Pre - Medical, High School, Pre - Medical at Fazaia Inter College Chaklala RawalpindiThe University of Melbourne
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Github Skills (4)
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
python10
ccl9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bcbio/bcbio-nextgen
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Validated, scalable, community developed variant calling, RNA-seq and small RNA analysis
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Sehrish primarily contributed to the bcbio-nextgen repository by modifying and extending the RNA-seq workflow. They added support for the pizzly fusion caller within the bcbio-cwl framework, enhancing the RNA-seq analysis capabilities. Their changes included modifications to CWL definitions and Python scripts, demonstrating an understanding of the pipeline's structure and functionality, and addressing an issue related to calling of oncofuse. The user also addressed typos and made small code clean-up improvements.
scalablecallingrnaseqvariant-callinggenomics
umccr/sk-explore
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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