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Smita Krishnaswamy, PhD

Associate Professor of Genetics and of Computer Science
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Computer Science
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Genetics
Fully Joint

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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

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)

Allergy and Immunology; Computational Biology; Deep Learning; Machine Learning; Neurosciences

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Smita Krishnaswamy's published research.

Publications

2024

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Excellence in Science Early-Career Investigator Award

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Yale School of Medicine

100 College Street

New Haven, CT 06510

United States

Computer Science

17 Hillhouse Avenue

New Haven, CT 06511

United States

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