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Biography
Associate Professor Sonika Tyagi has a Ph.D. in Computational Biology and over two decades of work experience in academia & industry. Throughout her postgraduate studies in India, she was awarded a merit-based or competitive research fellowship. In 2004 she visited the University of Queensland, Australia on a research fellowship. After 3y of postdoctoral research, she worked in research industry leadership roles for 7y. In 2018 she joined a teaching and research position at Monash University to establish her research program. She is currently an Associate Professor at RMIT University and Machine Learning co-investigator in the SuperbugAI flagship project and Centre to Impact AMR Leader at Monash University.
Sonika’s expertise is in developing new artificial intelligence (AI) tools and pipelines and applying these methods to solve biological and clinical research questions. Her current research focuses on integrative approaches to digital health & genomics for personalised care.
Sonika was one of the finalists for Women in AI (WAI) awards - Australia/Newzealand 2022 and Healthcare Innovator award in 20024 in the "AI in Health" category. She was awarded Australian 2023 Brilliant Women In Digital Health award.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Bioinformatics, PhD, Computational study of Gene Regulation at transcription and post-transcription level, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Award Date: 15 Dec 2007
Research area keywords
- Health Informatics
- Machine Learning
- Genomics
- Natural Language Processing
- ncRNA
- Antimicrobial resistance
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Transforming Patient Care with Pathogen Genomics, Digital Health and Machine Learning
Peleg, A. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Macesic, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stewardson, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Holt, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Peel, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stuart, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Song, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Tyagi, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Short, F. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Wyres, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rogers, B. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Hawkey, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ayton, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Korman, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Davis, M. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Whittaker, A. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Saraf, S. (Associate Investigator (AI)) & Jenney, A. (Associate Investigator (AI))
1/01/26 → 31/12/29
Project: Research
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Using Machine Learning to develop Robust and Reproducible miRNA Biomarkers to Detect Preterm Labour
Tyagi, S. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
26/12/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Targeted Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics for Preventing Preterm Birth
Paul, J. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Tyagi, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Hussein, W. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/04/22 → 1/04/25
Project: Research
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A multi-modal data harmonisation approach for discovery of COVID-19 drug targets
Chen, T., Philip, M., Cao, K. A. L. & Tyagi, S., Nov 2021, In: Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22, 6, 15 p., bbab185.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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multiomics: A user-friendly multi-omics data harmonisation R pipeline
Chen, T. C. C., Abadi, A. J., Cao, K. A. L. & Tyagi, S., 6 Jul 2021, In: F1000Research. 10, 21 p., 538.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Advancing the international data science workforce through shared training and education
Van Horn, J., Abe, S., Ambite, J. L., Attwood, T. K., Beard, N., Bellis, L., Bhattrai, A., Bui, A., Burns, G., Fierro, L., Gordon, J., Grethe, J., Kamdar, J., Lei, X., Lerman, K., McGrath, A., Mulder, N., O’Driscoll, C., Stewart, C. & Tyagi, S., 4 Mar 2019, In: F1000Research. 8, 19 p., 251.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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An annotation-free format for representing multimodal data features
Chen, T. & Tyagi, S., 25 Jul 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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Toward a Genetic Signature of Resistance to Activity-Based Anorexia in Striatal Projecting Cortical Neurons
Huang, K., Magateshvaren Saras, M. A., Conn, K., Greaves, E., Reed, F., Tyagi, S., Munguba, H. & Foldi, C. J. (Leading Author), 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Eating Disorders. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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