Krishna X. Amin

Citizenship: British

Contact details:

• Institutional email: krishna.amin@qmul.ac.uk

Page outline:

• Education
• Experience
  • Scientific Research
  • Finance
  • Consulting
  • Teaching
  • University/School Positions
• Skills
  • Computing and coding
  • Languages
• Publications and conferences
• Interests
• Other things

Education

Queen Mary University of London (2022 - )

• PhD, AI for Drug Discovery CTP (2022 - )

University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College (2018 - 2022)

• MSci, Systems Biology (2021 - 2022)

• BA (Hons), Natural Sciences (2018 - 2021). Specialised in Biochemistry in my 3rd year (Part II)

I was involved with a few societies/organisations/groups

Winchester College (2013 - 2018)

Academic scholar and honorary music exhibitioner, and involved in tennis, music and community service - find out more

Experience

Scientific Research

• Off-target toxic effects of drugs on happyhour (Nov 2021 - ) - Mitochodria and Cell Death Regulation Group, MRC Toxicology Unit
• Enzyme-explicit modelling of histone methylation dyanmics (Jun - Sep 2021) - Gunawardena Lab, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
• Molecular mechansims of signal transduction through GABAAR (Nov 2020 - Jan 2021) - Lummis Lab, Deparment of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
• Human lineage-specific regulation of novel open reading frames in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (Jul - Aug 2020) - Prabakaran Group, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
  • First-author on a manuscript including this work
  • Code written and used is available here. The link is available via this empty repository of my own.

Finance

• Algorithmic Trading Intern (Aug - Sep 2021) - HashKey Group (digital asset management)
  • Code was written for this internship, but may be unable to be shared
• Equities Analyst (Nov 2020 - Mar 2021) - Healthcare Sector, Cambridge Apex Fund (student-run investment fund co-ordinated by the Cambridge University Finance and Investment Society)
• Data Analyst Intern (Dec 2019 - Jan 2020) - 2RSquared (fintech start-up in systematic asset management)
  • Code written for and used during this internship can be found here

Consulting

• Consultant (Apr 2024 - Jul 2024) - Cambridge Consulting Network: fundraising strategy for pre-IND biopharma startup
• Consultant (Oct 2021 - Dec 2021) - Cambridge Consulting Network: Flagship project with Thriving.ai

Teaching

• Tutor (voluntary work) (Feb - Mar 2019) - IB Chemistry at Parkside Community College, Cambridge, as part of STIMULUS Cambridge
• Teacher (voluntary work) (Sep 2015 - Mar 2018) - Sparsholt Primary School, as part of Winchester College’s Community Service
• Private tutor (Dec 2018 - ) - 11+/13+ in Maths, English, Science, Geography, Latin. University entry

University/School Positions

• Head of Marketing (2021 - ) - Cambridge University Venture Capital and Private Equity Society
• Secretary (2021 - ) - Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club
• Captain of the Men’s 2nds (Grasshoppers) (2020 - 2021) - Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club
• Co-President (2020 - 2021) - Cambridge University Scientific Society
• Director for Publicity (2019 - 2020) - Cambridge University Scientific Society
• Captain (2019 - 2020) - St Catharine’s College Lawn Tennis Club
• Captain of 1st VI - Winchester College Lawn Tennis
• Deputy Head - Winchester College Community Service

Skills

Python

• Data processing with pandas
• Plotting with Matplotlib and Plotly
• NumPy
• Regression with random forests using scikit-learn
• Interfacing with ENCODE and ChEMBL
• De novo feedforward neural network construction, having read ‘Neural Networks and Deep Learning’, by Michael Nielsen
• Lipinski descriptors with RDKit
• Web scraping with Selenium

R

• Plotting with ggplot2
• Differential expression analysis with edgeR
• Data processing with various tidyverse packages

Command line

• SNP clumping and linkage disequilibrium analysis with PLINK
• SNP enrichment analysis with INRICH
• Sourcing PubChem fingerprints with PaDEL-Descriptor

MATLAB

• Plotting, ODE solving and function creation
• Courses in Master’s and first-year undergraduate

HTML/CSS

• Used to work on websites for two student societies
• Self-taught

LaTeX

• 4.5-hour course run by CamTeX – the LaTeX-focussed student society

Languages

• English (native)
• Mandarin (HSK2)
• French (IGCSE A*)
• Latin (Pre-U D2)
• German (basic - self-taught through Duolingo)

Publications and conferences

International Symposium on Genetic Instability and Impact of Genetic Variants on 9 July 2024 at Queen Mary University of London: poster presentation and flash talk. My page on the conference details the references for my poster.

Erady C^, Amin K^, Onilogbo TOAE, Tomasik J, Jukes-Jones R, Umrania Y, Bahn S, Prabakaran S. Novel open reading frames in human accelerated regions and transposable elements reveal new leads to understand schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Dec 23. doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01405-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34937870. ^ = these authors contributed equally. Brief summary here. We have been mentioned in the media - some outlets who covered us are listed here.

Interests

Tennis

• Member of the Queen Mary Tennis Club Men’s 1sts (2022 - )
• Member of the Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club Men’s 1sts (Blues) (2021 - 2022)
• Captain of the Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club Men’s 2nds (Grasshoppers) (2020 - 2021)
• Member of Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club Men’s 2nds (Grasshoppers) (2018 - 2021)
• Captain of Winchester College 1st VI (2017 - 2018)
• Member of Winchester College 1st VI (2013 - 2018)
• Held an international ranking - ITF Juniors 1693 (2018)
• LTA Rating of 4.2 (obtained in 2016)

Piano

• Grade 8 Distinction
• Performed solo a lot at Winchester College
• 2nd place at a music competition

Viola

• Grade 8 Merit
• Member of various orchestras and student ensembles both at University and Winchester College

Photography

• Certified contributor to Shutterstock, Getty Images and Adobe Stock
• Photos posted with varying regularity on Kleixography

Other things

• Attended Kendo sessions for a term (2019)
• Represent my Cambridge college at squash (2019 - present)
• Interested in motorsports