Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, Bioinformatics | University of California, Los Angeles / Los Angeles, CA
Sep 2025 - Present
BA, Computer Science | Case Western Reserve University / Cleveland, OH
Aug 2019 - May 2023
Experience
Computational Associate | The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard / Cambridge, MA
Jul 2023 - Jul 2025
Computer Vision, Drug Discovery, Representation Learning, Cardiovascular Disease, Google Cloud Platform
Junior Machine Learning Engineer | Trustlogix / Mountain View, CA
Nov 2023 - Jan 2024
Large Language Models, Database Security, Agentic Workflows, Amazon Web Services
Undergraduate Researcher | Case Western Reserve University / Cleveland, OH
Nov 2019 - May 2023
Beckman Scholars Program, Computer Vision, Image Pipeline Development, Cell Shape Analysis, Applied Machine Learning
Undergraduate Researcher | Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics / Cleveland, OH
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Research Ethics, Convolutional Neural Networks, High Performance Computing
Machine Learning Engineer Intern | Surgo Ventures / Washington, DC
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Bayesian Networks, Probabilistic Models, Amazon Web Services, R, Python, Regression Models
Data Engineering Intern | Edifice Analytics / Cleveland, OH
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Applied Machine Learning, Hadoop, Apache Spark
Research Intern | Stanford University School of Medicine / Stanford, CA
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
in-situ hybridizations, scRNA-seq
Funding
Beckman Scholar鈥檚 Program | Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation & Case Western Reserve University
May 2020 - Aug 2021
$21,000 research grant supporting undergraduate research projects
Honors and Awards
Junior-Senior Scholarship | Case Alumni Association
Aug 2021 - May 2023
$2,000 award for students with professional promise
Highest Achieving Sophomore | Case Western Reserve University
May 2020
Maintaining GPA of 4.0 through first two years
University Scholarship | Case Western Reserve University
Aug 2019 - May 2023
$80,000 merit-based scholarship
Best Undergraduate Poster | Society for Developmental Biology
Oct 2019
Exceptional poster presentation at SDB regional conference
Dean鈥檚 High Honors | Case Western Reserve University
Dec 2019 - May 2023
Maintaining GPA > 3.75
Teaching
Teaching Assistant | Dr. Vipin Chaudhary
Apr 2023 - May 2023
Introduction to Machine Learning for Industry Professionals
Publications
- S Kirti, J Zylberberg. (2026). "Signal-Noise Factorization Isolates Nuisance Variation into Removable Subspaces." arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.00751.
- A Jussila, B Zhang, S Kirti, R Atit. (2024). "Tissue fibrosis associated depletion of lipid鈥恌illed cells." Experimental Dermatology. 33(3), e15054.
- A Jussila, B Zhang, E Caves, S Kirti, M Steele, E Hamburg-Shields, J Lydon, Y Ying, R Lafyatis, S Rajagopalan, V Horsley, R P Atit. (2022). "Skin fibrosis and recovery is dependent on Wnt activation via DPP4." Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 142(6).
- S Kirti. (2022). "How Machine Learning Will Change Our World: How Machine Learning Can Make Life Easier-And a Bit More Complicated." The Synapse: Intercollegiate Science Magazine. 30(1).
- A Janesick, M Scheibinger, N Benkafadar, S Kirti, S Heller. (2022). "Avian auditory hair cell regeneration is accompanied by JAK/STAT-dependent expression of immune-related genes in supporting cells." Development. 149(8).
- A Janesick, M Scheibinger, N Benkafadar, S Kirti, DC Ellwanger, S Heller. (2021). "Cell-type identity of the avian cochlea." Cell Reports. 34(12).
Talks
- Poster: Contrack: A High-Throughput Contractility Screening Platform for 3D Human Cardiac Microtissues, American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Chicago, IL, USA 路 Nov 2024
- Poster: A High-Throughput Contractility Assay for Human Cardiac Organoids: a Translational Platform for Cardiomyopathy and Drug Discovery, Mass General Brigham Gene and Cell Therapy Institute Symposium, Boston, MA, USA 路 Nov 2023
- Poster: DPP-IV mediates Wnt-stimulated dermal fibrosis, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Annual Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, USA 路 Aug 2021
- Symposium talk: DPP-IV mediates Wnt-stimulated dermal fibrosis, Case Western Reserve University Annual SOURCE Symposium, Cleveland, OH, USA 路 May 2021
- Poster: Ototoxic Damage Induces Interferon Signaling in Chicken Cochlear Epithelial Stem Cells, Society for Developmental Biology, Cleveland, OH, USA 路 Oct 2019