Surajit Bhattacharya
Research Faculty at Children's National Hospital
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolSurajit Bhattacharya is a research faculty and computational biologist with eight years of experience applying genomics, epigenetics, and transcriptomics to pediatric precision medicine at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. He progressed from postdoctoral fellow—where he developed a variant filtering tool for optical genome mapping—to staff scientist and now research faculty, blending hands-on bioinformatics engineering with translational research. Trained with a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and an MS in Bioinformatics, he pairs deep molecular expertise with software-driven analysis pipelines. Early career work includes building a DNA methylation web tool and testing automation in industry, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and practical software development. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he focuses on turning complex genomic data into actionable insights for clinical research.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Biotechnology, B.Tech, Biotechnology at West Bengal University of Technology, KolkataDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Georgia State UniversityMS, Bioinformatics, MS, Bioinformatics at George Mason University
Github Skills (21)
single-cell-genomics10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
cran10
r-package9
bioconductor6
genetics5
seq4
structural-variation4
data-annotation4
tsne3
package3
fasta3
rna-seq3
bioconda3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
VilainLab/nanotatoR
May 2018 - Sep 2021
Bionano Data Annotation R package
Contributions:2 reviews, 263 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 4 months
r-packageannotationdata-annotation
VilainLab/IntramiRExploreR
Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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