Kunal Poorey
About Kunal Poorey
Kunal Poorey is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories with expertise in programming, mathematical modeling, and genomics.
Title
Kunal Poorey holds the position of Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories since 2017.
Current Company
Kunal Poorey is currently employed at Sandia National Laboratories in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been serving as a Senior Member of Technical Staff since 2017.
Previous Experience
Before his current role, Kunal Poorey worked as an Insight Health Data Fellow at Insight Data Science in 2016 for 11 months. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories from 2013 to 2017 in Livermore, CA. He also served as a Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the University of Virginia, and completed an internship at INSA Lyon in 2003. Additionally, he has experience as a Student Researcher at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Education and Expertise
Kunal Poorey earned a PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Genetics with a focus on Bioinformatics, Genomics, Data-mining & Modelling from the University of Virginia, where he studied from 2007 to 2013. He also holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2000-2004). His expertise includes programming languages and tools such as Python, Matlab, R, Perl, Shell scripting, Mathematica, and Octave. He has strong mathematical, statistical, modeling, and data-mining skills.
Background in Research and Publications
Kunal Poorey has a solid background in developing and applying new methods for the analysis of complex biological systems. He specializes in mathematical modeling, machine learning, genomics, programming, biochemistry, and microbiology. He also has a proven track record of peer-reviewed publications in reputed international journals.