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| Name | Shashidhar Ravishankar |
| Label | Director of AI/ML, Athos Therapeutics |
| shashidhar.r.shankar@gmail.com | |
| Url | https://shashidhar22.github.io |
| Summary | I lead AI and machine learning at a clinical-stage biotech company. I build AI tools that help scientists use complex biological data to make better decisions in drug discovery. |
Work
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2026.06 - Present Director of AI/ML
Athos Therapeutics
I lead the engineering team building an agentic AI platform for multi-omic data analysis in drug discovery. I work on two fronts: optimizing the agent system itself, and building an evaluation suite that measures how agents perform across every phase of the discovery process, with LLM judges grading their output.
- Agentic AI systems
- Agent benchmarking
- LLM-as-a-judge evaluation
- Multi-omic data
- Drug discovery
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2022.04 - 2026.05 Staff Scientist, Warren Lab
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
I led QUEST, a project that uses protein language models to predict which targets T-cells recognize, and built its data and training pipeline for 2.6 billion sequences on multi-GPU cloud servers. I also studied the immune response to Kaposi sarcoma and other virus-linked cancers by combining single-cell, bulk RNA-seq, and immune repertoire data. Co-PI on a Yosemite-American Cancer Society Award.
- Protein language models
- Biological sequence modeling
- T-cell antigen recognition
- Multi-omic data integration
- Comparative viral genomics
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2019.10 - 2022.04 Bioinformatics Analyst
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
I built LymphoSeq2, an open-source R package for immune repertoire analysis, and automated pipelines for single-cell and immune repertoire data.
- LymphoSeq2
- Nextflow pipelines
- Immune repertoire analysis
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2018.01 - 2018.08 SWEP Graduate Researcher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Malaria Branch
I built NeST, a sequencing analysis toolkit for tracking malaria drug resistance. It was adopted as a standard protocol across six CDC laboratories.
- NeST
- Drug resistance surveillance
- Genome assembly