Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in Computational Biology
Weill Cornell Medical College, Expected June 2026
Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Computational Biology
BS in Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2021
GPA: 3.96/4.0, Minor in Computing and Intelligence
Research Experience
Graduate Researcher
Weill Cornell Medical College, Aug 2021 - Present
- Engineered foundation models for predictive embryology in IVF procedures.
- Developed structural variant detection methods for short-read cancer data.
- Conducted research on data heterogeneity in federated learning and other ML applications.
Bioinformatics Researcher
Wake Forest School of Medicine, May 2019 - Sep 2021
- Performed privacy-preserving methods through holographic transformations.
- Developed models to predict immunotherapy-related adverse events.
- Preprocessed and cleaned large datasets for NLP pipelines.
Professional Experience
Data Scientist Intern
Regeneron, May 2024 - Aug 2024
- Reduced text processing time by 95% using NLP and LLMs.
- Implemented analytics and data visualization tools to transform data into actionable insights.
R&D Bioinformatics Intern
Colgate-Palmolive, June 2021 - Aug 2021
- Developed NLP pipelines for veterinary note standardization and search.
- Constructed an LSTM model for early renal disease prediction.
Publications
Rajendran S, et al.
"Automatic Ploidy Prediction and Quality Assessment of Human Blastocysts Using Time-Lapse Imaging." Nature Communications, 2024.
Mandracchia B, Zheng C, Rajendran S, et al.
"High-speed optical imaging with sCMOS pixel reassignment." Nature Communications, 2024.
Rajendran S, Pan W, et al.
"An adaptive federated learning framework for clinical risk prediction with EHR data." Cell Patterns, 2024.
Rajendran S, Zisimopoulos P, et al.
"Non-invasive AI models for the prediction of human blastocyst ploidy." Lancet Digital Health, 2023.
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Python, R, MATLAB
- Data Visualization
- Statistical Modeling
- Genomics and Structural Variant Calling
Fellowships and Awards
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2023 - 2026
Stipend: $34,000
NIH BEAMS Challenge Winner, Dec 2023
Awarded $5,000 for innovative outreach initiatives.
CDC & NASA Detecting Emerging Threats Challenge, Jan 2022
Awarded $7,500 for first place.