Kaushik's Bio Update

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 role: phd
 group: cwu-lab
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 links:
    linkedin: kaushik-ram-ganapathy
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+   github: Krganapa
+   orcid: 0000-0002-2439-9373
+   google-scholar: Tji0LIwAAAAJ
+   twitter: krganapa
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+Hi, I’m Kaushik, a 4th-year Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics co-advised by Profs. Chunlei Wu and Ali Torkamani. My thesis project focuses on developing data-driven statistical approaches to unravel population-wide gene expression patterns, with a particular emphasis on allele-specific expression (ASE). By studying how ASE impacts health and disease, I aim to create tools with clinical diagnostic applications to especially rare disease cases.
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+Before grad school, I earned my bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego, where I contributed to several research projects. I helped develop machine learning systems for QM/MM simulations in molecular modeling with Prof. Francesco Paesani. I also worked with Dr. Peter Rose to build knowledge graphs for COVID-19, supporting data integration efforts. For my bachelor thesis, I was supervised by Prof. Ilya Zaslavsky and co-created GeoACT, a spatial agent-based COVID-19 transmission model that eventually received the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Award for its impact in helping schools reopen amid the pandemic.
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+Apart from research, I am deeply passionate about music, reading, and watching old (1930s-1960s) movies. I am also a largely self-taught pianist having qasi-perfect pitch. 
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+### Education
+B.S. - Data Science, Halicioglu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego
 
-Kaushik is a graduate student in the Wu Lab. His research focuses on developing statistical models to help advance allele-specific expression analysis.
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