Sira Sriswasdi, PhD

Sira Sriswasdi, PhD, is a Lecturer at Research Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, and the head of Computational Molecular Biology Group (http://cmb.md.chula.ac.th). His interests lie at the frontier of computational biology research where data science and machine learning techniques are applied to solve biological and biomedical problems. Examples of his primary research topics include microbial genome evolution, mass spectrometry-based peptide identification, single-cell transcriptomics, and deep learning.

Education

• S. Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• D. Genomics and Computational Biology, University of Pennsylvania

Awards and Honors

• 2014 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 2010 Philadelphia Health Care Trust Fellowship
• 2006 Ilona Karmel Prize in Scientific and Technical Writing
• 2003 Silver Medal, 44th International Mathematical Olympiad

Major grants awarded

• 2019 C2F grant for Ph.D. mentor, Chulalongkorn University
• 2019 Rachadapiseksompoch Endowment Fund, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
• 2019 Thailand Research Fund