CV
Contact Information
| Name | Suraj Rajendran |
| Professional Title | Computational Biology PhD Student |
| 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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2023 Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
National Science Foundation
Supporting doctoral research in computational biology.
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2023 BEAMS Challenge Winner
NIH
Awarded for innovative outreach initiatives.
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2022 1st Place - Detecting Emerging Threats Challenge
CDC & NASA
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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