VIVEKSAGAR KRISHNAMURTHY RADHAKRISHNA
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EDUCATION
MS Bioinformatics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA GPA: 4.0 Aug. 2012 - Present (Graduating in Dec. 2013)
BE Biotechnology, PESIT, VTU, Bangalore, India % avg.: 76.83 Oct. 2004 - June 2008
SKILLS
Bioinformatic tools/concepts:
Sequence alignment: samtools, bwa, bowtie, bowtie2, BLAST+, MUMmer, blat, soap2, snap
Variant calling/annotation: GATK, snpEff, bcftools
Data visualisation: IGV, bamview, UCSC genome browser, MAUVE, Hawk-eye, Artemis, samstats
Genome assembly: AMOScmp, Newbler, Cabog, RAY, Velvet, MIRA, SOAP denovo2, SUTTA
Machine learning: Linear regression, Logistic regression, SVM, Neural Network, PCA, K-means clustering
Generic: AMOS package, kent source utilities
Programming and web-development:
Languages: Perl,Python, UNIX shell scripting, C, Matlab, Java, C#, R programming language- Basics
Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server 2008, MySQL
Web-technologies: HTML, JavaScript, JSP, ASP.NET, AJAX, XML, Web service consumption, Basics of cloud
computing, Basic WCF, J-Query
High performace computing: PBS script creation and HPC usage
PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN/COMPLETED - MS BIOINFORMATICS, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Personalized medicine/ therapeutic optimization: Predicting the best drug/ drug cocktail for a given cancer patient
Created a shell script based automated pipeline to analyse tumor and normal tissue sequences o f patients and
identify the somatic driver mutation for oncogenisis. Used industry standard tools such as bowtie2 for a lignment;
prinseq for preprocessing; GATK for variant calling; snpEff for variant annotation and mutect to compare tumor-
normal pairs
Created a custom implementation of MOCA in python which uses the CCLE and COSMIC cancer cell line and drug
response information to predict the response of patients to a particular drug with respect to the features of the
tumor cell line. The algorithm also gives insights to both drug sensitivity and resistance
Followed industry standard coding conventions with an easy-to-use configuration script
Version 2 of the tool is currently being implemented to suit a distributed computing environment with hadoop
and/or in-memory computing platforms and is expected to speed up the analysis by 10 folds
CMAP (Clinical metagenomic analysis pipeline): Identifying and categorizing exogenous sequences against a host
background
Created a shell script based automated pipeline to identify and characterize non -host sequence in a given
metagenomic clinical sample
The pipeline consisted of a 3-step bowtie runs which would perform the process of host digital subtraction and
retain and characterize pathogenic sequences
As a positive control, the tool was run on various simulated and cell-line derived sequence reads
A bioraptor was created to analyse around 1000 directories of the 1000genome project and results were project on
the Vannberg lab website using some of the latest web technologies
CMAP2, with increased sensitivity and specificity, is currently in the pipeline which would also look at the geo-
spatial distribution of pathogen
Genome assembly of Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio navarrensis species in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control
and prevention(CDC), Atlanta
As a part of the core-curriculum of Master's in Bioinformatics at Georgia Technology, was involved in a 5-stage
project where in the primary goal was to check for pathogenicity and speciation of V. navarrensis
Lead the Genome Assembly team and adopted an all vs all comparison strategy to get the best assembly. Splinter,
an assembly pipeline created by the team proved to be better than that of the one used by the CDC
Was a part of the Genome Browser group and created the details page and involved in the UI development
K-mer based clustering/classification of pathogenic bacteria and virus using machine learning approaches
The concept of the uniqueness of the number of a candidate k -mers (8 and 12 for now) for a given organism relative
to another is harnessed
Machine learning algorithms such as neural-network (classification) and PCA-kmeans(clustering) is being
implemented to test the hypothesis
Development and maintenance of Vannberg Lab website
A hybrid html-jsp website was developed for Vannberg lab
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant: Georgia Institute of Technology; Adviser: Dr. Fredrik Vannberg Aug. 2012 – Present
- Developing a generic web-based framework for to analyze and visualize global distribution patterns pathogen
Instructor- CS1-1086, Matlab, Higher education opportunity program, NYU-Poly July 2012 - Aug. 2012
- Responsible for syllabus design, content creation, course delivery, grading and proctoring
Teaching Assistant- CS1133, Matlab, Computer Science and Engg. Dept., NYU-Poly Feb. 2012 - May 2012
- Provided assistance with hands-On practical lab, competency assessment and proctoring.
Senior System's Engineer/ Senior Associate- Microsoft Tech. Track, Infosys Ltd., Mysore, India Sep. 2008 - Aug. 2011
- Handling technical training, web application development and Database administration
- Actively involved in Corporate Social Responsibility activities
- Demonstrated the ability to be a team player and was made the lead of the one of the team bui lding activity
- Database administrator for Trainee Performance Dashboard(TPD) which supported trainee performance and analysis
PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION
Oral Presentation: Model depicting the action of a reverse transcriptase inhibitor and protease inhibitor in HIV infected T –
cells, International Conference on Molecular Mechanisms and Systems Biology, Ma y 2008, PESIT, Bangalore, India
Poster Presentation: Drug effectiveness enhancement in T–cell populations by modified reverse transcriptase – an in-silico
study, International Conference on Systems Biology, August 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden
TECHNICAL TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS
Online Stanford Machine Learning course
.NET and JAVA with a GPA of 4.94 (on scale of 5, ~95 percentile)
Microsoft certified technology specialist- 70-433 Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development
REFERENCE
Dr. Fredrik Vannberg; Assistant Professor, School of Biology; Georgia Institute of Technology ; *******.********@*******.******.***
Dr. Jung Choi; Associate Professor; Director of MS Bioinformatics; Georgia Institute of Technology; ****.****@*******.******.***
Ms. Komal Papdeja; Principal, Education and Research, Infosys Ltd., Pune, India; *************@*******.***