Sonia Chothani
Principal Scientist at A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS)
Singapore
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Top SchoolSonia Chothani is a Principal Scientist in computational biology with eight years of expertise spanning bioinformatics, machine learning, and mathematical modeling, currently based at A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore. She earned advanced training at Duke‑NUS and Carnegie Mellon and has led translational research projects at Duke‑NUS that bridge algorithm development with biomedical discovery. Her background includes building scalable analysis pipelines and alignment-free genomic tools, plus hands-on work implementing R and Java solutions for network visualization and horizontal gene transfer detection. Sonia combines quantitative modeling (flux balance and logical steady-state analyses) with practical lab-aware bioinformatics, a blend reflected in early iGEM and industry internships where computational designs directly informed experimental outcomes. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate complex genomic data into actionable insights for disease and therapeutic research.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at Duke-NUS Medical School12th CBSE, Science, 12th CBSE, Science at R.N Podar senior secondary school10th ICSE, Science, 10th ICSE, Science at Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial SchoolMaster of Science (M.S.), Computational Biology, Master of Science (M.S.), Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon UniversityIndian Institute of Technology Madras
Github Skills (3)
genes10
seq10
bioinformatics9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
SGDDNB/translational_regulation
Nov 2017 - Apr 2021
Detection of differential translated genes using Ribo-seq
Contributions:40 commits, 31 pushes, 10 comments in 3 years 5 months
translatedbioinformaticsgenesseqdifferential
SGDDNB/CLIPreg
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 8 months
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