hello! I'm Priyal, currently a final year undergrad studying B.Sc Life Sciences. I love to build, and I hope I continue building more cool stuff!
- final-year undergrad @Maitreyi College, University of Delhi
- undergrad researcher | published in IJMS 2025
- ex-researcher @ IIT Delhi & IIT Roorkee
- building bioinformatics tools & pipelines
- currently exploring transcriptomics and AI: building a spatial transcriptomics analysis platform for tumor microenvironment research
- proficient in python, bash scripting and R
- experience with CI/CD, CLI design, and Git
| Institution | Role | Period | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| IIT Delhi | Undergraduate Researcher | Jun 2025 – Dec 2025 | Protein–ligand binding free energy prediction; benchmarked CatBoost & XGBoost against RASPD+ for virtual screening |
| IIT Roorkee | Undergraduate Researcher | Aug 2024 – Feb 2025 | Comparative transcriptomic profiling of Indian vs TCGA breast cancer cohorts; UMAP clustering & differential gene expression |
| Maitreyi College, UoD | Undergraduate Researcher | Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Multi-model ML framework on TCGA cancer omics data; SHAP & LIME explainability; cross-cohort validation |
| Maitreyi College, UoD | Summer Research Intern | Jul 2024 – Aug 2024 | Built XGB-BIF — biomarker identification framework for gastric, lung & breast cancer with >90% accuracy |
- [J.1] Veena Ghuriani, Jyotsna Talreja Wassan, Priyal Tripathi, Anshika Chauhan (2025). XGB-BIF: An XGBoost-Driven Biomarker Identification Framework for Detecting Cancer Using Human Genomic Data. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26(12), 5590. DOI: 10.3390/ijms26125590