Swati Kaushik

Swati Kaushik is a Senior Scientist II at Tempus AI since April 2025, with previous experience as a Senior Research Scientist and Research Scientist in Bioinformatics at Gilead Sciences from December 2020 to April 2025. Swati has a strong focus on data science for discovery research in immunology, inflammation, and fibrosis, particularly in analyzing RNA-seq datasets to evaluate research targets. Prior to Gilead, Swati served as a Bioinformatics Specialist and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, where significant work involved developing algorithms for biomarkers in lung cancer and understanding drug response heterogeneity. Educational qualifications include a PhD in Computational Biology from the National Center for Biological Sciences and an MS in Bioinformatics from Savitribai Phule Pune University.