Currently a PhD student at St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. My research focus includes, but not limited to, Functional genomics, high-throughput bioinformatics and systems biology. I am fascinated by the integrative approach in data analysis which helps to acquire information on overall response of the system to intrinsic and extrinsic perturbation.
My current work broadly focuses on interaction between metabolic pathways and gene regulatory networks that could help promote T cell persistence during CAR T cell therapy. Furthermore, I am also working on exploring the possibility of using graph theory approaches in multi-omics data integration.
As a side gig, I help my team educate students from diverse background on state of art biological and translational research. I am strongly optimistic that this will help inspire some next generation scientists pursue Computational systems biology.
I was born and raised in a landlocked country in south east asia, Nepal. What that means is, I did not get to go to the beautiful beaches but I did get to do lots of hiking around beautiful mountains of Nepal. I completed my high school from Hetauda and moved to the big city, Kathmandu, for high school like most of the student of my generation. I completed my undergraduate in Biotechnology from Purbanchal University while studying at Asian Institute of Technology and Management (AITM), previously known as Himalayan Whitehouse College of Science and Technology, Laltipur in 2012.
I love traveling, this hobby helped me identify and luckily, also got in to my dream program offered by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 2013. I travelled accross serene european countries while studying Systems Biology in Sweden. The program itself was a compulsary mobility, so my first year was in Stockholm, while my second year was decided during our winter school in Lisbon, Portugal. I completed my Masters in Computational Systems Biology while studying my second year at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.
I feel, the cross cultural amalgamation that I was fortunate to experience while traveling remote regions of Nepal, Europe and currently USA (east and south) has instilled in me, a deep sense of respect for individuality. It has opened my eyes and taught me to be patient while also enabling me to, at the very least, appreciate the different perspective of people from differnt socio-economic background.
Music, Gunners (Arsenal FC), Hiking, Outdoor Sports, Reading and Science are my absolute best things to do in my leisure time.