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Education

2022–present

PhD, Computational Biology
Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich, Germany
Member of the Munich School for Data Science (MUDS) PhD program

2020–2022

Master of Science
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India

2017–2020

Bachelor of Science
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India

Talks

Oct 2025

ERDERA Science Club Series
Functional gene embeddings improve rare variant based gene discovery

May 2025

European Human Genetics Conference (ESHG), Milan, Italy
Functional gene embeddings improve rare variant polygenic risk scores

Apr 2025

Weihenstephan Bioinformatics Symposium, Freising, Germany
FuncRVP: a rare variant association framework leveraging functional information across genes

Nov 2024

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), Denver, USA
Functional gene embeddings improve rare variant polygenic risk scores

Awards & Grants

Jun–Aug 2026

EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant #12502
3-month research exchange at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA, with Hilary Finucane and Konrad Karczewski.

Nov 2019

iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine), Silver Medal
Quantitative modelling of engineered synthetic operon systems in bacteria.

Jul 2017

All India Rank 51, IISER Aptitude Test

Languages

English, Hindi, Marathi