Rajesh Chowdhary is a biomedical researcher, investor and an entrepreneur. His research interest lies in the application of machine learning/AI approaches to biomedical & stock-market problems. He has worked as a CSO of Insilicom LLC, and as a biomedical-informatics faculty scientist at Marshfield Clinic, WI, with an honorary position at School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was a research fellow in computational biology at Department of Statistics, Harvard University. Rajesh has a PhD from School of Computing, National University of Singapore, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College, and a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay.
Grants
Principal Investigator. Cell-line identification with DNA-replication timing fingerprints. NIH SBIR grant (1R43GM131546-01A1), Insilicom LLC, 05/2019.
Principal Investigator. Warfarin dose prediction using machine learning. NIH-Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) - ICTR T1 pilot grant, 2013.
Principal Investigator. Modeling and risk profiling superficial vein thrombosis. Disease-specific competitive grant, Marshfield Clinic, 2013.
Principal Investigator. Characterization and modeling of promoters of asthma associated genes. Disease-specific competitive grant, Marshfield Clinic, 2012.
Principal Investigator. Mining textual data in EMR for prediction of Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter (AFF) through application of machine learning. Wisconsin Genomics Initiative (WGI) Demonstration Project competitive grant, 2012.
Chowdhary R, Jankovic BR, Archer JAC, Zhang X, Gao X, Bajic VB. Automated mining of disease-specific networks of protein interactions based on biomedical literature. In Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare; published by World Scientific. In press 2013.
Jankovic BR, Archer JAC, Chowdhary R, Schaefer U, Bajic VB. Promoter structures conserved between Homo sapiens, Mus musculus and Drosophila melanogaster. In Systemic Approaches in Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology: Recent Advances, 92-104, 2011.
Ashoor H, Mora AM, Awara K, Jankovic BR, Chowdhary R, Archer JAC, Bajic VB. Recognition of translation initiation sites in Arabidopsis. In Systemic Approaches in Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology: Recent Advances, 105-116, 2011.
Narang V, Chowdhary R, Mittal A, Sung WK. Bayesian network modeling of transcription factor binding sites, in Bayesian Network Technologies: Applications of Graphical Models, Idea Group Publishing, Pennsylvania, USA, 2006.
Huang E, Yang L, Chowdhary R, Kassim A, Bajic VB. An algorithm for ab-initio DNA motif detection, in Information Processing and Living Systems, World Scientific, 611-614, 2005.
Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums, Meetings, et al.
Karnik S, Tan SL, Berg B, Glurich I, Zhang J, Vidaillet HJ, Page CD, Chowdhary R. Predicting Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter using Electronic Health Records. In Annual International Conference of the IEEE: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 5562-5, 2012.
Bell L, Chowdhary R, Liu JS, Niu X, Zhang J. IBN: a system for Biological Network-based Knowledge Discovery. In Annual International Conference of the IEEE: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Abstract 2012.
Zhang C, Chowdhary R, Zhang J. Biological Pathway Discovery through Text mining and Data Integration. In Annual International Conference of the IEEE: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012.
Belknap SM, Godinez-Puig V, Brannigan RE, Lin SM, Cashy J, Chowdhary R, Postelnick MJ, Fotis MA, Irwig M, Khan SA, Gradishar WJ, Garg V, Shen X, Raisch DW, Nardone B, Rosen ST, Edwards BJ, McKoy JM, Yarnold PR, West DP. Association of breast cancer in men with exposure to 5-alpha reductase inhibitors: A RADAR report. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2012.
Chowdhary R, Berg B, Tan SL, Mendonca EA, Karanjia PN, Glurich I, Montilla RG, Peissig PL, Vidaillet HJ, Page CD. Mining textual data in the EMR for prediction of Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter (AFF). Workshop on Learning from Unstructured Clinical Text, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Bellevue USA, 2011.
Chowdhary R, Zhang J, Tan SL, Osborne DE, Liu JS. BiotextMiner: a protein interaction extraction system. Upper Midwest Informatics CTSA Consortium Meeting, Madison, USA 2010.
Chowdhary R, Ali RA, Bajic VB. Modeling 5' regions of histone genes using Bayesian networks. Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 283-288, 2005.
Singh V, Chowdhary R, Sharma SD, Gupta AB, Kar S. Mechanical shear trauma in models of asthma. American Review of Respiratory Diseases Conference (ARRD), 147:A832, 1993.
Talks and Seminars
Context-specific Protein Network Miner. Fourth Annual Wisconsin Science & Technology Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, 2012.
Data Mining Techniques. Wisconsin Network for Health Research (WiNHR) Advisory Committee Meeting
and Educational Forum, 2011.
Mining protein networks from literature. Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 2011.
Asthma Genetics. Allergy Grand Rounds, Section of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2010.
Asthma Gene Regulation. BIRC Center meeting, 2010.
Genome-wide analysis of Histone Gene Promoters. Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine (CIBM) Seminars, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009.
Biological literature mining. MCRF Board of Trustees, 2009.
PPI extraction from unstructured biological text. Department of Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009.
Overview of Bayesian networks applications in Bioinformatics. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, 2006.
