Data Science opportunities in Biotech

Abstract

Data science is being increasingly leveraged to solve many problems in the biotech industry. Within the Biotech industry, however, data science can mean many different things depending on the company or application. As a Machine Learning Scientist in the biotech industry, I want to talk about my experience navigating the plethora of opportunities available at this exciting interdisciplinary intersection, how data science in biotech differs from other industries, and the rich potential of avenues combining life and data science.

Biography of the speaker

Nandita Damaraju completed her bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from IIT Madras in 2014. She is currently Machine Learning Scientist at Inflammatix, Inc. San Francisco, USA. She has previously also worked at Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Data Scientist. She holds a master’s degree in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.