Avish Vijayaraghavan

Avish Vijayaraghavan

Co-Founder, CTO

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    PhD Candidate in AI for Healthcare @ Imperial || previously @ Microsoft Research, NHS / GOSH DRIVE, NPLB

  • Education

    • Imperial College London

      2017 - 2020
      Bachelor of Engineering - BEng Maths and Computer Science 2:1

      Activities and Societies: Hip-Hop Society (Co-Founder, Web Secretary), Computing Football Team (Captain), Social Badminton Team, Synthetic Biology Society, Imperial College TV - Final Year Group Project: Cryptocurrency Exchange Platform for Bitcoin and Ethereum- Final Year Individual Project: Data Science for DLBCL Stratification, presentation featured on Department of Computing's channel

    • Liden & Denz Intercultural Institute of Languages, St.Petersburg, Moscow, Irkutsk and Riga

      2018 - 2018
      Russian A2-B1

      - Spent three weeks in Moscow at a Russian language school- A2 lessons for first week, B1 lessons for final two weeks

    • Imperial College London

      2021 - 2026
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD AI for Healthcare

      Activities and Societies: DJ & Production Society, CDT Representative (22-24) - Part of the https://ai4health.io/ CDT programme- Funded by UKRI and AstraZeneca

    • UCL

      2020 - 2021
      Master of Science - MS Precision Medicine Distinction (ranked first)

      - Research Project: 3D Graph Representation Learning for Transition State Generation- Finished on Dean's List as highest performing student on course

    • Hampton School

      2010 - 2017

      Activities and Societies: Badminton (First Team 2010-2017), Future Problem Solving (2010-2017), Senior Prefect (2016-2017) - 3 A*s at A-Level in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Russian and D2 (=A*) at Pre-U in Physics- Won Hampton's Extended Project prize for my work "Algorithms in Astrophysics"- A at AS-Level in Economics- 10 A*s at GCSE

  • Experience

    • Stealth Startup

      Dec 2018 - Sept 2019
      Co-Founder, CTO

      - Tech startup using augmented reality for marketing- Built PoC and raised pre-seed- Let it go to concentrate on research

    • Imperial College London

      Jul 2019 - Sept 2019
      Undergraduate Researcher

      - Improving Gaussian process regression using curvature- Worked with Samir Bhatt at the Imperial branch of St Mary's Hospital

    • AI for Healthcare - UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training

      Oct 2021 - now
      PhD Candidate

      - Multimodal, interpretable learning for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis- Graduate Teaching Assistant for: Statistical Programming, Biomedical Data Science

    • Arts and Business College of London

      Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
      Tutor

      - Tutored AI, maths, and biology at A-Level/undergrad level- Prepared data analytics course for foreign students

    • Freelance (Self employed)

      Apr 2023 - now
      AI Consultant

      Companies I've worked with- Riverfield Partners LLP: analysed AI-based drug discovery companies and clinical trial results- Rsalesarm It Services Private Limited: built LLM-based tool to improve their learning management system

    • Microsoft

      May 2023 - Aug 2023
      Research Intern

      - Biomarker discovery for Parkinson's disease using proteomics data- Worked with Kristen Severson in the BioML team

    • NHS

      Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
      Data Science Intern

      - Using LLMs to analyse histopathology reports- Working with NHS's Data Science Team (Dan Schofield, Jonathan Hope, Jonny Pearson) and Great Ormond Street Hospital / GOSH DRIVE (Pavi Rajendran)

    • No Patient Left Behind

      Sept 2024 - now
      Fellow

      - Understanding how we make pharma innovation affordable via health insurance reform in the US- Learning about pharma policy, drug economics, and patient advocacy

    • GOSH DRIVE

      Jan 2025 - now
      Data Scientist

      - Writing a paper on previous NHS internship work

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Volunteer Experience

    • CDT Representative

      Issued by UKRI CDT in AI for Healthcare (AI4Health) on Jun 2022
      UKRI CDT in AI for Healthcare (AI4Health)Associated with Avish Vijayaraghavan
    • Fundraiser

      Issued by Movember on Nov 2022
      MovemberAssociated with Avish Vijayaraghavan
    • Hip Hop Society Co-Founder, Music Journalism

      Issued by Imperial College London on Jul 2018
      Imperial College LondonAssociated with Avish Vijayaraghavan