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Name Shashidhar Ravishankar
Label Director of AI/ML, Athos Therapeutics
Email 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Education

  • 2016.01 - 2019.08

    Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    PhD
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Bioinformatics
  • 2014.08 - 2016.05

    Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    MS
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Bioinformatics
  • 2009.08 - 2013.06

    Bangalore, India

    BE
    PES Institute of Technology
    Biotechnology