Avish Vijayaraghavan
About me
I’m a scientist-engineer interested in machine learning and pharma, based in West London. My mission is to build out a biotech model that works with the NHS.
My research interests revolve around building interpretable models and tools for complex diseases. I recently finished my PhD in AI for Healthcare at Imperial, where I worked on IPF and ILD ‘omics. Before that, I did a MSc in precision medicine at UCL, and a BEng in maths and compsci, also at Imperial.
Alongside my PhD work, I’ve done a few internships based around biotech and healthcare:
- Microsoft Research’s BioML team - interpretable neural nets for proteomics (preprint here)
- NHS × Great Ormond Street Hospital - LLM annotation workflows for paediatric kidney reports (technical report here)
- Fellow, No Patient Left Behind - pharma industry education + health insurance reform (my course notes, my article on how NICE values drugs)
- Great Ormond Street Hospital × Roche - LLM workflows for paediatric cancer reports (vlog here)
- AstraZeneca - internal agentic tool for single cell transcriptomics analysis
My CV’s here. Get in touch via LinkedIn or X. Outside of work, I occasionally write (website/Substack), make videos, and make tunes.