I'm currently exploring how cellular senescence impacts lung tissue using 10x Genomics Xenium spatial transcriptomics data, with the goal of uncovering key biological pathways that drive these processes.
Before academia, I was as a Machine Learning Engineer working on anomaly detection and automation in textile industry.

Education

Sept. 2021 — May 2023
M.S. in Computational Science
New York University, New York
GPA: 3.63/4.00
Aug. 2016 — May 2020
B.E. in Computer Engineering
Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Pune, India
Thesis: Video Summarization
Advisor: Asst. Prof. A. Chandorkar
GPA: 8.45/10
Thesis Slides Seminar

Work Experience

Jan. 2023 — Present
Tsankov Lab at Mount Sinai, New York
Associate Computational Researcher
May 2022 — Aug. 2022
Tsankov Lab at Mount Sinai, New York
Associate Computational Researcher Intern
July 2020 — May 2021
ResoluteAI.in, Bangalore, India
Machine Learning Engineer

Publications

J2
Single cell profiling of human airway identifies tuft-ionocyte progenitor cells displaying cytokine-dependent differentiation bias in vitro
Viral S. Shah* , Avinash Waghray* , Brian Lin* , Atharva Bhagwat* , Isha Monga* , Michal Slyper* , Bruno Giotti* , Sunghyun Kim , Dawei Sun , Ke Xu , Eric Park , Mohamad Bairakdar , Jiajie Xu , Julia Waldman , Danielle Dionne , Lan T. Nguyen , Wendy Lou , Peiwen Cai , Christoph Muus , Jiawei Sun , Manalee V. Surve , Lujia Cha Cha Yang , Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen , Toni M. Delorey , Srinivas Vinod Saladi , Aviv Regev , Jayaraj Rajagopal , Alexander M. Tsankov
Nature Communications. 2025.
PDF *Authors contributed equally
J1
Single-Cell View of Tumor Microenvironment Gradients in Pleural Mesothelioma
Bruno Giotti , Komal Dolasia , William Zhao , Peiwen Cai , Robert Sweeney , Elliot Merritt , Evgeny Kiner , Grace S. Kim , Atharva Bhagwat , Thinh Nguyen , Samarth Hegde , Bailey G. Fitzgerald , Sanjana Shroff , Travis Dawson , Monica Garcia-Barros , Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar , Rachel Chen , Sacha Gnjatic , Alan Soto , Rachel Brody , Seunghee Kim-Schulze , Zhihong Chen , Kristin G. Beaumont , Miriam Merad , Raja M. Flores , Robert P. Sebra , Amir Horowitz , Thomas U. Marron , Anna Tocheva , Andrea Wolf , Alexander M. Tsankov
Cancer Discovery. 2024.
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Posters

P1
Dissecting the cellular mechanisms of lung parenchyma aging
Ke Xu* , Grace S. Kim* , Atharva Bhagwat* , Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar , Giang Pham , Jing Zhang , Mohamad D. Dairakdar , Sepideh E. Meimand , Alter Klausner , Yijia Chen , Thinh T. Nguyen , Bruno Giotti , So-Jin Kim , Rachel Brody , Dan Puleston , Patty J. Lee , Alexander M. Tsankov
89th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology: Senescence & Aging, The Festival of Genomics and BioData 2025 Boston. 2025.

Awards

2023
Winner, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Hackathon 2023
Biology and Therapeutic Vulnerability in PIK3CA Mutated Breast Cancer
Slides

Mentoring

Spring 2025
Qwyen & Yesha at Roaring Cubs Collective
Topics in AI
Fall 2024
Meiling & Shaan at Roaring Cubs Collective
Topics in AI