I am a postdoctoral scientist at Stanford University in Anshul Kundaje's lab, supported by the Warren Alpert Computational Biology & Artificial Intelligence fellowship. I previously completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, coadvised by Nir Yosef and Nilah Ioannidis.
My research focuses on developing interpretable machine learning methods for genomics—both to uncover biological principles and to make clinically useful predictions. I am currently working in two areas. First, I am developing sequence-based models that decode long-range interactions in the regulatory genome and predict individual disease risk from personal genetic variants. Second, I am building computational methods to predict how cells in the immune system respond to various perturbations.
Email: rrastogi [at] stanford [dot] edu