Overview

Dr. Yogesh Kumar is the Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist of the Center for Applied Bioinformatics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He has more than 12 years of extensive experience while working on NGS data for a wide variety of multi-omics projects in organizations of great repute across the globe. He is a multi-disciplinary researcher with good hands-on experience onto vast range of data analysis & integration techniques with a proven track record of contributing successfully to pivotal research on diseases such as Cancer, Asthma, Aging, Neurological Disorders and Developmental Biology.

Dr. Yogesh Kumar contributions to the team include developing & maintaining various workflow pipelines and perform processing and analysis of multi-omics data and its further integration to support clinical findings and meaningful interpretations benefitting the ongoing Cancer research.

Kumar has extensive exprience to analyze a wide variety of NGS Data: RNA-seq., CHIP-seq. ATAC-seq., methy-seq, m5C and m6A modifications epitranscriptomics analysis (RNA methylation), single cell RNASeq, WGS, WGBS, WES, Metagenomics 16S Analysis. Expertise to deal long read ONT and PacBio data analysis.

Education

• PhD (Bioinformatics), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),Hong Kong,Hong Kong
• MS (Bioinformatics), Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India
• BS (Bioinformatics), Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India

Professional Experience

Time	Position	PI/Supervisor	Institution
2024-present	Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist	Ti-Cheng/Gang Wu	St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, US
2022-2024	Senior Bioinformatician	Serena Nik-Zainal	University of Cambridge: Cambridge, England
2018-2021	Senior Computational Biologist	HOD	Monash University,Melbourne, Australia
2017-2018	Bioinformatician	Peristera Paschou	Purdue University, Indiana, USA