Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan

hsmurali AT cs DOT umd DOT edu

I am Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan and I am presently a bioinformatics engineer at LatchBio. Previously, I got my Ph.D. in computer science with a focus in bioinformatics and computational biology from the department of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park. I had the good fortune of being advised by Prof. Mihai Pop and my work culminated in a thesis titled “Data-driven Algorithms for Charatcterizing Structural Variation in Metagenomic Data”.

Prior to graduate school, I spent 3 wonderful years at the TCS innovation labs at Chennai, India working on analytics for cyberphysical systems, mentored by Dr. Arunchandar Vasan, Dr. Venkatesh Sarangan and, Dr. Srinarayana Nagarathinam.

I was a research intern at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona between Feb 2015 and Jun 2015 as a part of the Semester Abroad Programme (SAP) at SASTRA University. At UPC I worked with Prof. Tomàs Aluja Banet on Learning Analytics at the inLab.

News

Jul, 2024 Our work on the effect of database sizes on taxonomic resolution is now out in PLoS Computational Biology.
Jul, 2024 Started as a Bioinformatics Engineer at LatchBio.
Jun, 2024 I defended my Ph.D. thesis titled, “Data-driven Algorithms for Characterizing Structural Variation in Metagenomic Data”!
Jan, 2024 Our work on transitive annotation is published in Frontiers in Microbiology.
Dec, 2023 Check out our latest preprint on the effect of database sizes on taxonomic resolution here.