Avish Vijayaraghavan

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’m currently wrapping up my PhD in AI for Healthcare at Imperial, where I’m working 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 biotech/healthcare internships where I built some more models and tools:

• Microsoft Research’s BioML team - interpretable neural nets for Parkinson’s disease proteomics (preprint here)
• NHS × Great Ormond Street Hospital - LLM annotation workflows for paediatric kidney reports (technical report here)
• No Patient Left Behind - non-profit working on pharma industry education + health insurance reform (my course notes, my article on how NICE values drugs)
• Great Ormond Street Hospital × Roche - LLM annotation workflows for paediatric cancer reports (vlog here)
• AstraZeneca - internal agentic tool for single cell transcriptomics analysis

My CV’s available here and you can get in touch via LinkedIn, X, or email. Outside of work, I occasionally write (website, Substack), make videos, and make tunes.