CV

Contact Information

Name Suraj Rajendran
Professional Title Computational Biology PhD Student
Email sur4002@med.cornell.edu
Location New York, NY

Professional Summary

Ph.D. student in the Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Computational Biology at Weill Cornell Medical College, specializing in computational biology and machine learning.

Experience

  • 2021 -

    New York, NY

    Graduate Researcher
    Weill Cornell Medical College
    Engineering foundation models for predictive embryology in IVF procedures and conducting research on data heterogeneity in federated learning.
    • 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.
  • 2024 - 2024

    Tarrytown, NY

    Data Scientist Intern
    Regeneron
    Reduced text processing time by 95% using NLP and LLMs.
    • Implemented analytics and data visualization tools to transform data into actionable insights.
  • 2019 - 2021

    Winston-Salem, NC

    Bioinformatics Researcher
    Wake Forest School of Medicine
    • Performed privacy-preserving methods through holographic transformations.
    • Developed models to predict immunotherapy-related adverse events.
    • Preprocessed and cleaned large datasets for NLP pipelines.
  • 2021 - 2021

    Piscataway, NJ

    R&D Bioinformatics Intern
    Colgate-Palmolive
    • Developed NLP pipelines for veterinary note standardization and search.
    • Constructed an LSTM model for early renal disease prediction.

Education

  • 2021 - 2026

    Ph.D.
    Weill Cornell Medical College
    Computational Biology
    • Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Computational Biology.
    • Co-mentored by Dr. Fei Wang and Dr. Iman Hajirasouliha.
  • 2018 - 2021

    B.S.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Biomedical Engineering
    • GPA 3.96/4.0.
    • Minor in Computing and Intelligence.
    • President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) Fellow.

Awards

  • 2023
    Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
    National Science Foundation

    Supporting doctoral research in computational biology.

  • 2023
    BEAMS Challenge Winner
    NIH

    Awarded for innovative outreach initiatives.

  • 2022
    1st Place - Detecting Emerging Threats Challenge
    CDC & NASA
  • 2021
    President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA)
    Georgia Institute of Technology

Skills

Machine Learning & AI: Deep Learning, NLP, LLMs, Computer Vision
Programming: Python, R, MATLAB, SQL
Genomics: Structural Variant Calling, Short-read Cancer Data Analysis
Tools: Data Visualization, Statistical Modeling