I started with fundamental science, evolved into scalable data architecture, and now engineer production AI.

As the tech landscape shifted, I moved toward where the most impactful data challenges were: scalable pipelines, applied ML, clinical genomics, and now agentic AI. My value is at this intersection: deep scientific foundations alongside a modern AI engineering toolkit.

The Journey

I began in first-principles science.

IndiaSingaporeTorontoNow
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCBS), India

The Core Math & Biophysics Foundations

Deep mathematical modeling, molecular dynamics, stochastic systems, and statistical mechanics applied to complex biological architectures.

Statistical MechanicsMolecular DynamicsBiophysicsStochastic ModelingHPC
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The Core Math & Biophysics Foundations

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCBS), India

The Core Math & Biophysics Foundations

Deep mathematical modeling, molecular dynamics, stochastic systems, and statistical mechanics applied to complex biological architectures.

Statistical MechanicsMolecular DynamicsBiophysicsStochastic ModelingHPC
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The Biotech & Therapeutics Scale

BII A*STAR, Singapore

The Biotech & Therapeutics Scale

Production ML frameworks, structural scoring pipelines, and enterprise oncology campaigns with Merck & Co., AstraZeneca, and Cancer Research UK.

Production MLXGBoost + SHAPDrug DiscoveryMerck CollabAstraZeneca
BII A*STAR, Singapore

The Biotech & Therapeutics Scale

Production ML frameworks, structural scoring pipelines, and enterprise oncology campaigns with Merck & Co., AstraZeneca, and Cancer Research UK.

Production MLXGBoost + SHAPDrug DiscoveryMerck CollabAstraZeneca
ProteinQure, Toronto

The TechBio Startup Scale

Managed production machine learning codebases in Python for molecular feature scoring and structural design campaigns in collaboration with AstraZeneca and Cancer Research UK.

Modular PythonModel DeploymentStructural AITechBio StartupStakeholder Mapping
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The TechBio Startup Scale

ProteinQure, Toronto

The TechBio Startup Scale

Managed production machine learning codebases in Python for molecular feature scoring and structural design campaigns in collaboration with AstraZeneca and Cancer Research UK.

Modular PythonModel DeploymentStructural AITechBio StartupStakeholder Mapping
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The Multi-Omics Data Infrastructure

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto

The Multi-Omics Data Infrastructure

Scalable, reproducible Snakemake/Nextflow HPC pipelines for large-scale multi-cohort clinical genomics and proteomics data. SHAP-driven ML biomarker discovery.

NextflowSnakemakeDockerHPC/SLURMNGS PipelinesBiomarker ML
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto

The Multi-Omics Data Infrastructure

Scalable, reproducible Snakemake/Nextflow HPC pipelines for large-scale multi-cohort clinical genomics and proteomics data. SHAP-driven ML biomarker discovery.

NextflowSnakemakeDockerHPC/SLURMNGS PipelinesBiomarker ML
UofT Data Sciences Institute · Independent

The Production AI Era

Operationalizing Generative AI: LangGraph agentic networks, RAG pipeline deployment, LLM validation, and full-stack AI application engineering.

LangGraphRAGFastAPIDockerLLM ValidationTypeScript
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The Production AI Era

UofT Data Sciences Institute · Independent

The Production AI Era

Operationalizing Generative AI: LangGraph agentic networks, RAG pipeline deployment, LLM validation, and full-stack AI application engineering.

LangGraphRAGFastAPIDockerLLM ValidationTypeScript

What I've Built

Architectures in production.

Production-Grade Agentic AI Assistant

Dhruva

Designed, containerized, and deployed an autonomous parenting assistant backend using FastAPI and LangGraph agentic architectures. Implemented a production RAG pipeline over curated corpora using ChromaDB vector spaces with streaming SSE responses.

LangGraphFastAPIRAGDockerChromaDBNext.jsVercel

First Place · UofT Data Sciences Institute

CrossTALK Kaggle Challenge

Took first place in the UofT DSI CrossTALK bootcamp ML competition: engineered optimized gradient-boosted workflows for bioactive hit retrieval from chemical screening datasets.

XGBoostscikit-learnQSARPythonFeature Engineering

Cancer Variant Prioritization

AlphaMissense + ESM + cBioPortal

Integrated AlphaMissense pathogenicity predictions with cBioPortal cancer variant data and ESM protein language model embeddings to prioritize functionally impactful cancer variants, bridging structural AI and clinical genomics.

AlphaMissenseESMcBioPortalProtein LMVariant CallingPython

Toronto Police Open Data

ML Classification Pipeline

End-to-end ML classification on complex mixed-type public records, predicting crime categories by location, time, and premises type with categorical encoding and class balancing.

PythonClassificationCategorical EncodingClass BalancingEDA

WGS · HPC · Singularity

Transposable Element Detection Pipeline

Reproducible HPC pipeline for germline transposable element detection from whole-genome sequencing data, integrating three complementary callers (xTea, MELT, InSurVeyor) in Singularity containers with SLURM batch scheduling.

NextflowSingularitySLURMWGSBashDocker

Immune Profiling · Clinical ML

Cytokine Biomarker Discovery

Machine learning analysis of multi-cytokine panel data for biomarker discovery: feature selection, dimensionality reduction, and model interpretability applied to immune profiling datasets.

Pythonscikit-learnSHAPEDAFeature Selection

Vetting & Recognition

Externally validated.

The Data Incubator Fellowship

USA

Competitive quantitative fellowship for transitioning top-tier PhDs into enterprise data science. Acceptance rate under 3%.

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Deploying AI Models

University of Toronto, Data Sciences Institute · 2026

Production LLM deployment, LangGraph agentic graph architectures, containerized RAG pipelines.

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Merck Innovation Cup Winner

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany · 2018

Selected from 2,000+ global applicants to engineer an ML-driven biomedical innovation framework at Merck headquarters.

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Core Toolkit

The technical stack.

Systems & Pipelines

NextflowSnakemakeDockerBashLinuxHPC / SLURMSQLREST APIs

AI & Modeling

LangGraphLangChainRAGPyTorchXGBoostLightGBMSHAP / LIMEESM Protein LM

Analytics & Core

PythonRTypeScriptPower BIPlotlyGit / GitHubAWS (S3, EC2)