Suraj Rajendran
About Me
I am a Ph.D. student in the Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Computational Biology at Weill Cornell Medical College, specializing in computational biology and machine learning. My research interests include exploring multimodal methods for furthering women’s health and in vitro fertilization (IVF), clinical trial emulation, natural language processing and modeling in medical data, as well as deep learning in genomics. I am honored to be supported by the National Science Foundation through a Graduate Research Fellowship. Currently, I am co-mentored by Dr. Fei Wang and Dr. Iman Hajirasouliha.
In the past, I have had the opportunity to work as a Bioinformatics Researcher at Wake Forest School of Medicine under the guidance of Dr. Umit Topaloglu. My projects there included the identification of immunotherapy-related adverse events (irAEs), predicting COVID-19 diagnosis using televisits and progress notes, and federated learning using cloud computing.
During my undergraduate studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, I majored in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Computing and Intelligence. I was awarded the President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) Fellowship.
Outreach
I have been actively involved in various outreach activities. Since November 2023, I have been part of NYC’s IMentor organization, aiding underprivileged high school students in applying to college. I am also a Research Mentor at Lumiere Education where I have mentored students on machine learning in healthcare. In lat 2022, I led a team for the Dept. of Health & Humans Services Blood Donation Campaign, where we developed a winning proposal for the “Giving=Living” campaign aimed at promoting blood donations to address shortages. I have also led a team addressing inequities in academic recognition for disadvantaged groups from December 2021 to April 2022. We proposed a policy to ensure that students with disabilities get academic recognition for completed courses at Georgia Tech, and presented our findings to the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Diversity & Inclusion Council.
GRFP Help
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) has opened numerous doors for me, and I strongly urge all eligible individuals to consider applying. I’m more than willing to discuss the application process and provide insights based on my experience. If you’re interested, I can also share my research and personal statement upon request.
Latest News
- 12/12/2024: NVIDIA wrote an article on our recent Nature Communications paper on BELA! Read it here.
- 10/21/2024: We got a lot of publicity for our recent Nature Communications paper on BELA! Check out the press release. We also got the opportunity to present our work at the 2024 American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) conference as well as the 2024 Cornell Intercampus Symposium for Maternal Health.
- 9/05/2024: Our paper on BELA, a video classification model for IVF, was published in Nature Communications! Check it out here.