About Me

Hello! I am Akshaya Thoutam, a computational associate II with the Project Ex Vivo group at Microsoft Research (co-advised by Lorin Crawford and Ava Amini) and the Broad Institute (advised by Peter Winter) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I am also a Masters student in the Clinical Research Program at Harvard Medical School. My research focuses on developing and using machine learning methods with scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data to define/engingeer cell states in cancer. Broadly, I am interested in the use of multimodal machine learning and systems biology approaches to advance our understanding of healthy and diseased state models.

Previously I graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology as a College of Sciences Dean's Scholar and Early Research Award recipient with a B.S in Neuroscience and a minor in health and medical sciences. My advisors have included Greg Gibson (GT), Nasrin Hooshmand (GT), Simon Knott (Cedars Sinai), and Joshua Levin (Broad).