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 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 across private, public, and voluntary sectors:

• 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.