Aathavan Karunakaran

Aathavan Karunakaran is an accomplished professional in the field of scientific insights engineering and genomic technologies, currently serving as the Director at Genentech. Aathavan previously operated as an independent consultant for Karunakaran Consulting and held various positions at Illumina, advancing from Staff Scientist to Associate Principal Scientist, focusing on systems design and assay development. Aathavan also contributed to Berkeley Lights, Inc. as a Senior Single Cell Applications Engineer and served as an Imaging Scientist at Singular Bio, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Invitae in 2019.