Smita Krishnaswamy
Smita Krishnaswamy is an Assistant Professor in the department of Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine and Department of Computer Science in the Yale School of Applied Science and Engineering. She is also affiliated with the Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science, Yale Cancer Center, and Program in Applied Mathematics. Smita’s research focuses on developing unsupervised machine learning methods (especially graph signal processing and deep-learning) to denoise, impute, visualize and extract structure, patterns and relationships from big, high throughput, high dimensional biomedical data. Her methods have been applied variety of datasets from many systems including embryoid body differentiation, zebrafish development, the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in breast cancer, lung cancer immunotherapy, infectious disease data, gut microbiome data and patient data.