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Uthsav Chitra
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University @JHUCompSci @HopkinsDSAI working on computational genomics + ML
Baltimore, MD
chitra-lab.github.io
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Jun 6, 2025
    New life update! 🎆 🎓 This Fall, I will be joining the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (@JHUCompSci) as an Assistant Professor, with an affiliation at the new Data Science and AI Institute (@HopkinsDSAI).
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Sep 22, 2022
    hey it's me 😄
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    Princeton Computer Science
    @PrincetonCS
    Sep 22, 2022
    Five computer science graduate students have been named 2023 @SiebelScholars. The award recognizes academic achievement and leadership. Congratulations! 🎉 bit.ly/3xGJyeU
    Siebel Scholars Class of 2023 photos in a grid
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Mar 6, 2024
    I defended my thesis last week! It was super fun - I made lots of people listen to me talk about my work for a whole hour 😅 Huge thanks to advisor @benjraphael for his mentorship/support over the past decade 😃 Next up: I will join the Broad @Schmidt_Center as a postdoc!
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Jan 24, 2025
    GASTON, our method to learn “topographic maps” of gene expression, is out now @naturemethods! IMO the coolest part is a new model of *spatial gradients in sparse data*. As is typical for bio papers, it’s buried in Methods, but see below for a quick outline on the math 👇
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    Nature Methods
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    Jan 23, 2025
    Gene expression topography analysis by GASTON portrays domain organization and spatial gradients of gene expression and cell type composition using spatially resolved transcriptomics data. @uthsavc @benjraphael @PrincetonCS nature.com/articles/s4159…
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Nov 16, 2024
    hey it’s me, a rising star 🤩
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    Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center
    @Schmidt_Center
    Nov 15, 2024
    Congratulations to the 2024 Rising Stars in Data Science, including our very own fellow @uthsavc! This week at @HDSIUCSD, Uthsav presented his work on algorithms for understanding the spatial and network organization of biological systems. Learn more: datascience.ucsd.edu/rising-stars-i…
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    Uthsav Chitra
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    Oct 17, 2023
    What I’ve been working on for the past year! A new mathematical framework + deep learning algorithm, GASTON, for modeling spatial gradients in ‘omics data (I’m also open to input for the next climbing-themed algorithm name 🧗 😀)
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    Ben Raphael
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    Oct 16, 2023
    Our new method GASTON learns a “topographic map” of a tissue slice, enabling simultaneous identification of spatial domains and gene expression gradients in spatial transcriptomics biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Led by @UthsavC w/ @BrianJohnArnold @hrksrkr @Cong992 Sereno + Kohei (1/7)
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Mar 14, 2022
    congrats @tarunchitra !! a unicorn in both valuation and citation counts 😱
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    Yueqi Yang
    @Yueqi_Yang
    Mar 14, 2022
    Exclusive: Crypto analytics firm @gauntletnetwork, founded by a former D.E. Shaw Research quant, hit $1 billion valuation after fundraising bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Apr 1, 2020
    I learned last night that I received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! @NSFGRFP While I am extremely excited about receiving the #GRFP, I am also feeling a bit introspective. A few thoughts:
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    May 8, 2021
    Recently accepted to #ICML2021! Conference version (will update arXiv version soon) includes new result proving our estimator is asymptotically unbiased, thanks to help from new co-author Jasper Lee (who is Twitter-less)
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Jul 17, 2020
    New preprint on finding structured anomalous patterns in Gaussian data. (Also known as the “structured normal means” problem in statistics) w/ Princeton undergrad (!) Kimberly Ding and advisor @benjraphael arxiv.org/abs/2007.07878 (1/n)
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Jul 23, 2025
    Presenting at #ISMBECCB2025 tomorrow! GASTON-Mix, a unified model of spatial gradients and domains in spatial 'omics data. 11:20am UK time at RegSys Also recruiting students for my new lab at @JHUCompSci, feel free to reach out if you want to chat
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    bioRxiv Bioinfo
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    Feb 4, 2025
    GASTON-Mix: a unified model of spatial gradients and domains using spatial mixture-of-experts biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_bioinfo
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    Uthsav Chitra
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    Jul 20, 2021
    Presenting our #ICML2021 paper on bias in estimating structured anomalies at tomorrow's poster session! (12pm EST) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2007.07878 5min talk (can see even w/o ICML registration): recorder-v3.slideslive.com/?share=39624&s…
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Jun 18, 2021
    throwback to that time i caused a SEV1 and lost facebook ~10 million dollars in an hour (and somehow didn't get fired)
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    Uthsav Chitra
    @uthsavc
    Jun 6, 2025
    Replying to @uthsavc
    The Chitra Lab will build the next generation of machine learning and AI algorithms for addressing fundamental problems in biology. I am actively recruiting students — please visit our website for more details! chitra-lab.github.io
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    Uthsav Chitra
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    Jul 22, 2021
    not to toot my own horn (although i totally am) but i was in the top 10% of all reviewers for #ICML2021 🙂 icml.cc/Conferences/20… (no idea how this is chosen or what it means but i'll take it?)