Principal Investigator

Debashis Sahoo, PhD

Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0703Biomedical Research Facility II, Room 2119 La Jolla, CA 92093-0703Email: dsahoo@health.ucsd.eduPhone: 858-246-1803 Fax: 858-246-0019

Short Bio: Debashis Sahoo received B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He is currently a joint Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include analysis of biological systems and formal verification of hardware designs. Dr. Sahoo pioneered identifying simple Boolean relationships between gene expression values. Dr. Sahoo’s research has produced impacts in understanding several biological systems including, B cell differentiation, colon cancer, bladder cancer, and prostate cancer. Among the successes was Dr. Sahoo’s previous work where he identified the expression level of CDX2 as a predictive biomarker for a favorable response to conventional chemotherapy among stage II colon cancer patients (Dalerba, Sahoo, et al. NEJM 2016). Dr. Sahoo has received many grants for his achievements, notable among them are the prestigious NIH Pathway to Independence K99/R00 Award, DOD Prostate Cancer Training Award, and Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Young Investigator Award. He has continued his status as a highly accomplished researcher, publishing in high-impact journals and receiving grants for his computational biology adventure.

Education and Work Experience

Education:

1- B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur (1996 - 2000) - Advisor: Anupam Basu2- MS in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University (2001 - 2003) (GPA: 4.16/4.0)3- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University (2003 - 2008) (GPA: 4.08/4) - Dissertation: Boolean analysis of high-throughput biological datasets - Advisor: David L. Dill, Co-advisor: Sylvia K. Plevritis

Work Experience:

- Assistant Professor in Dept. of CSE & Dept. of Pediatrics, UC San Diego- Instructor of Pathology and Siebel Fellow at the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University

Teaching (Stanford):

- StemRem 201 - Fall 2013 - StemRem 201 - Fall 2012

Teaching (UCSD):

- CSE100: Advanced Data Structures (Spring 2015) - CSE100: Advanced Data Structures (Fall 2015) - CSE100: Advanced Data Structures (Fall 2016) - CSE100: Advanced Data Structures (Fall 2017) - CSE291 H00: Impact of formal methods - Bio (Winter 2018) - CSE100: Advanced Data Structures (Fall 2018) - CSE100: Advanced Data Structures (Fall 2019) - BNFO 283: Student Research Talks (Winter 2020)

Awards

Notable Awards:

- Fujitsu scholarship (2002) and Integrative cancer biology program scholarship (2005) - Siebel Fellowship from Siebel Stem Cell Institute and the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation (2009-2011) - DOD Prostate Cancer Training Award ($115K, 08/15/2010-08/14/2012) - NIH Pathway to Independence Award – K99/R00 ($1M, 08/01/2011-07/31/2016) - AACR Scholar-In-Training Award (01/19/2011) - Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Young Investigator Award (07/15/2013-07/14/2015) - C3 collaborative translational cancer research award (MCC, UCSD, $75k, 06/15/2017–06/14/2018) - Translational PEDIATRIC Cancer Research Awards (RCHSD, $50k, 07/01/2018–06/30/2019) - Pilot Project Program in Moving from Discovery to Clinical Care (UCSD, $50k, 09/01/2018– 08/31/2019)

Outreach:

- Women's Safety XPRIZE - XPRIZE Foundation

Media:

- UCSD ERSP students: - Facebook: https://bit.ly/2YcjOT7 - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3bSsfRMNCg&t=22s - Web: https://www.uctv.tv/computer-science/search-details.aspx?showID=34691

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