Atharva Bhagwat

Associate Computational Researcher

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.

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

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

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.

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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

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. 2025.

*Authors contributed equally

Dissecting the cellular mechanisms of lung parenchyma aging