Work Experience
🧑🔬🥼 Research Associate (part-time)
Stanford University 📍 Stanford, California, United States
August 2023 - Present
Conducting comprehensive research, combining high-throughput NGS data analysis (transcriptomics) with hands-on wet-lab validation.
🧑🔬🥼 Graduate Research Assistant UTHealth
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth 📍 Houston, Texas, United States August 2025 - December 2025
Led an independent, end-to-end computational analysis of public single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets for a graduate-level practicum project to uncover the molecular and regulatory mechanisms driving laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) progression.
🧑🔬💼 Lab Manager/Research Associate
Stanford University 📍 Stanford, California, United States
October 2020 - July 2023
Helped establish a cardiovascular research laboratory as a foundational team member, integrating operational management with in vivo experiments.
🧑🔬🥼 Life Science Research Professional 1
Stanford University 📍 Stanford, California, United States
October 2016 - July 2023
Spearheaded rigorous in vivo studies and experimental assays to map tobacco product-induced laryngeal injury and supported broader department research.
🧑🔬🥼 Research Assistant I
Baylor College of Medicine 📍 Houston, Texas, United States
March 2016 - October 2016
Investigated the synergistic effects of bacteriophage and antibiotic treatments on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms associated with urinary tract infections (UTIs).
🧑🔬🥼 Research Assistant II (non-clinical)
UTHealth 📍 Houston, Texas, United States
September 2015 - March 2016
Contributed to a specialized in vivo microbiological study investigating the systemic impacts of anaerobic oral pathogens.
🧑🔬🥼 Graduate Research Assistant
University of Florida 📍 Gainesville, Florida, United States
August 2013 - May 2015
Studied the mechanistic links between periodontal microbiology and cardiovascular disease using specialized in vivo models for a cross-disciplinary master’s thesis.
🧑🔬🥼 Undergraduate Student Researcher
Anna University 📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
December 2012 - April 2013
Provided support for cloning, expression, and purification of white spot syndrome viral (WSSV) proteins in Escherichia coli expression hosts.
🧑🔬🥼 Intern, L&T Department of Ocular Pathology
Sankara Nethralaya Medical Research Foundation 📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
June 2012 - July 2012
Gained practical exposure to molecular cancer research, observing and assisting with suicide gene therapy experiments, stable breast cancer cell line generation (MCF-7), and cell viability assays measuring Ganciclovir toxicity.
🥼 Trainee, Cytogenetics and Electron Microscopy
Cancer Institute Adyar 📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
May 2011 - May 2011
Trained in cytogenetics and pathology, analyzing lung tissue for malignancies via TEM and SEM while gaining hands-on experience in Classic Karyotyping, Spectral Karyotyping (SKY), and FISH techniques.
🥼 Trainee, Diagnostics Labs
Lister Metropolis 📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
December 2010 - December 2010
Developed foundational laboratory, analytical, and sample collection skills through an intensive, cross-departmental clinical training program.