Divya Koyyalagunta

I’m a third year Computational Biology PhD Student at the Tri-Institutional PhD program (Cornell University/Weill Cornell + MSK Cancer Center + Rockefeller University) and NSF GRFP Fellow. I am in the Quaid Morris Lab where I develop machine learning methods to better understand cancer evolution and gene regulation. I work on methods that use gradient based learning of discrete objects to learn the history of metastasis in patients’ cancer evolution trees. I like developing easy to use software tools, which is incredibly important in a field that brings together scientists from various backgrounds.

I graduated cum laude from Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science, where I worked on interesting problems in NLP, was a teaching assistant for numerous computer science courses, and was captain of a dance team. After graduating I spent three years at Apple developing health software.