Snehit Prabhu

Snehit Prabhu, M.S.

(Ph.D. in progress)
  • Position:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    Computer Science

    Columbia University (New York, NY)

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  • Advisor:

    Itsik Pe'er

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D. (in progress), Computational Biology and Statistical Genetics, Columbia University (New York, NY)
     
    M.S., Computer Science, Columbia University (New York, NY)
     
    B. Tech., Computer Science, BMS College of Engineering (Bangalore, India)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Aviv Regev (as Visiting Student)
     
    Yechiam Yemini (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
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  • Research:
    Genetic Epidemiology, Population Genetics, Statistics, Machine Learning

    My research involves the application of computational and statistical models to biological sequence data: particularly DNA. Currently, I am engaged in developing methods for the discovery of complex interactions between genes. In the past, I have worked on the following :

    (1.) Gene Prediction (undergrad thesis):
    Probabilistic Models (Hidden Markov Models) for motif finding and gene discovery in biological sequence data.
    (Software link : http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/apas)

    (2.) Comparative Genomics:
    Quantifying the genetic variation accross the genomes of Yeast (S. Cerevisiae, C. Albicans), Worms (C. Elegans) and Humans (H. Sapiens).

    (3.) HIV Evolution:
    Studying the genetic basis of viral immune escape and development of drug resistance in HIV using Bayesian (graphical) models.

    (4) Pooled Sequencing:
    Optimizing the throughput utilization of short read sequencing technologies by enabling pooled ascertainment of sequences.

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  • Other Experience:

    2009 Microsoft Research - Intern

    2008 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Visiting Student

    2002-2006 IBM Labs - Research Engineer

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  • Honors:

    2009-present Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

    2007 Goa Scholars Graduate Research Grant (USD 15k)

    2006 IBM India Significant Publication Award

    2004 IBM India Young Innovators Award

    2000-2003 Fellow of the Melton Foundation

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Snehit Prabhu's Publications (4)



Snehit Prabhu's Posters and Presentations (4)

  • A Monte Carlo Sampling Algorithm To Discover Complex Interactions In Disease Association Studies (poster)

    Snehit Prabhu, Itsik Pe'er

    Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB), Lisbon, Portugal; 08/2010
  • Redesigning association studies for next-gen technologies. (presentation)

    Snehit Prabhu

    Human Genome Variation (HGV2009), Tallinn, Estonia; 09/2009
  • Designing Pools for Large Scale Resequencing Studies (presentation)

    Snehit Prabhu

    Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB), Tucson, Arizona; 05/2009
  • Overlapping Pools for High Throughput Targeted Resequencing (poster)

    Snehit Prabhu, Itsik Pe'er

    American Society of Human Genetics, Philadelphia meeting; 11/2008

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