Akshaya Nathan

Associate Application Scientist at Strand Life Sciences

Akshaya Nathan began their work experience in 2015 as a Summer Intern at the Central Leather Research Institute, where they conducted a study on Glucose Biosensors and performed data analysis on sweat and tear samples. In 2016, they worked as a Trainee at Bioklone Biotech Private Limited. The following year, they worked as a Research Student at SRM University. In 2017, they interned at Systasy Bioscience GmbH as a Research Intern and later joined TNQ Technologies as a Language Editor.

In 2018, Akshaya returned to Bioklone Biotech Private Limited as a Project Associate and then progressed to become a Project Manager for a short period of time. Akshaya eventually became a Senior Project Manager, overseeing teams in Epitope prediction and Recombinant Protein Production divisions. At this role, they utilized bioinformatics tools for Epitope prediction and was involved in Polyclonal antibody division and Antibody labelling activities.

In 2020, Akshaya joined Syngene International Limited as a Research Associate, providing cell-based assay services for global Pharmaceutical clients and conducting statistical analysis of data using MS Excel and Graphpad Prism.

Currently, they are working at Strand Life Sciences as an Associate Application Scientist. In this role, they evaluate and verifies software and product requirements for web- and mobile-based applications used to request cancer tests in the US. Akshaya also performs documentation of software requirements and project management using Jira and Agile methodology. Additionally, Akshaya is actively involved in analyzing and applying bioinformatics scripts for COVID lineage analysis using Strand NGS software, Pangolin, and Nextclade.

Akshaya Nathan's education history is as follows:

From 2020 to 2022, Akshaya Nathan attended PES University and completed a Master of Technology (MTech) degree in Data Science and Machine Learning.

From 2013 to 2017, Akshaya Nathan attended SRM University and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology.

From 2011 to 2013, Akshaya Nathan attended Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Hydernagar and completed Intermediate with a focus on Biology/Biological Sciences.

From 2008 to 2010, Akshaya Nathan attended DAV Public school, but there is no information provided regarding the degree or field of study.

In addition to the formal education, Akshaya Nathan has obtained several certifications. These include "Introduction to Hadoop" from Great Learning in May 2022, "Bioinformatics with Python" and "Genetics and Next Generation Sequencing for Bioinformatics" from Udemy in February 2022, "Unsupervised Machine Learning" from Great Learning in February 2022, and "Exploratory Data Analysis" from Great Learning in October 2020.

Akshaya Nathan has also obtained certifications in "EXT Assays" from Systasy Bioscience GmbH in August 2017, "Analytics on SAS" from Great Learning (exact completion date not provided), and "Certificate of training - Protein Biochemistry and immunotechniques" from Bioklone Biotech Private Limited (exact completion date not provided).

Additionally, Akshaya Nathan has completed a certification in "Python Projects" from Great Learning, although the exact completion date is not provided.

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Timeline

  • Associate Application Scientist

    January, 2022 - present