Divya Koyyalagunta
I’m a fifth 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 metastasis.
I graduated cum laude from Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and minor in Neuroscience, 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.
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| Dec 2025 | Our paper on Inferring cancer type-specific patterns of metastatic spread was published in Nature Methods. |
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| Oct 2025 | I was named a Three Minute Thesis Finalist. |
| Jul 2023 | I was awarded the Best Poster Award at the ICML Computational Biology Workshop for our work “Gradient-based Migration History Inference of Metastatic Cancers”. |
| Apr 2023 | I was awarded the NSF GRFP Fellowship! |
| Jun 2021 | Our paper on Playing codenames with language graphs and word embeddings is accepted to Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. |
