Urminder Singh

Urminder Singh is an accomplished bioinformatics scientist with extensive experience in both industry and academia. At Illumina, from August 2021 to May 2024, Urminder held various roles, culminating as a Staff Bioinformatics Scientist, contributing significantly to bioinformatics research and development. Prior to this, Urminder completed a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State University, where research focused on identifying and characterizing novel genes in the human genome and collaborated on COVID-19 research with international teams. Additional roles included a Software Consultant at Substrate and various positions at the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, where Urminder developed innovative machine learning methods and published extensively in the field. Education includes a Master of Technology in Computational and Systems Biology from Jawaharlal Nehru University.