Kishwar Shafin

Kishwar Shafin is a senior research scientist in Google genomics team where he leads the development of DeepVariant, DeepTrio, and DeepSomatic. Prior to this, he obtained PhD in Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics from the University of California. His work was published in scientific journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, and Cell Genomics, among others. He’s a member of the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, the Human pangenome reference consortium, and the Genome-In-A-Bottle (GIAB) consortium. In PrecisionFDA Truth Challenge V2, his work won awards for best performance in difficult-to-map and all benchmarking regions for Oxford Nanopore variant calling.