Vagheesh Narasimhan
- Assistant Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Statistics and Data Sciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Contact Information
Biography
Vagheesh Narasimhan joined The University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Integrative Biology, Statistics and Data Sciences and Population Health in Fall 2020. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Genomics and Medicine from the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and later completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School with David Reich and Nick Patterson.
Research
Narasimhan is interested in problems at the intersection of genomics, computer science and statistics.
Research Areas
- Statistics, Big Data or Machine Learning
- Health Promotion or Disease Prevention
- AI for Health or Computational Science
- Computational Medicine or Computational Science
- Evolution
Fields of Interest
- Computational Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genomics, Genetics and Development