Smita Krishnaswamy, PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics and of Computer ScienceCards
About
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Associate Professor of Genetics and of Computer Science
Biography
Smita Krishnaswamy is an Associate professor in Genetics and Computer Science. She is affiliated with the applied math program, computational biology program, Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science and Yale Cancer Center. Her lab works on the development of machine learning techniques to analyze high dimensional high throughput biomedical data. Her focus is on unsupervised machine learning methods, specifically manifold learning and deep learning techniques for detecting structure and patterns in data. She has developed algorithms for non-linear dimensionality reduction and visualization, learning data geometry, denoising, imputation, inference of multi-granular structure, and inference of feature networks from big data. Her group has applied these techniques to many data types such as single cell RNA-sequencing, mass cytometry, electronic health record, and connectomic data from a variety of systems. Specific application areas include immunology, immunotherapy, cancer, neuroscience, developmental biology and health outcomes. Smita has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Appointments
Computer Science
Associate Professor TenureFully JointGenetics
Associate Professor TenureFully Joint
Other Departments & Organizations
- Cancer Immunology
- Center for Biomedical Data Science
- Center for Infection and Immunity
- Center for RNA Science and Medicine
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Computer Science
- Genetics
- Human and Translational Immunology Program
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Krishnaswamy Lab
- Neuroscience Track
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Center for Genomic Health
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Columbia University (2015)
- PhD
- University of Michigan (2008)
- MS
- University of Michigan (2004)
- BA
- Kalamazoo College, Mathematics (2002)
- BS
- University of Michigan (2002)
Research
Overview
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
News
News
- August 30, 2024
Kavli Institute for Neuroscience Celebrates 20 Years with Symposium on Sept. 20
- May 03, 2024
Hao, Chen, and Bhaskar Honored With 2024 Kavli Postdoctoral Fellowship
- March 25, 2024
Dr. Smita Krishnaswamy on Yale Cancer Answers
- December 13, 2023
Informatics program transformation brought student to YSPH