Computational Biology
Turning biological questions into models — simulating the behaviour of living systems in code.
Computational Biologist · Bioinformatics Researcher
BrishnaKhan.
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researcher · scientist
I model how neurons grow — teaching machines to learn the logic of living systems.
Graduate Research Assistant at TÜBİTAK and MSc in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (Kadir Has University, full scholarship) — working where biology meets artificial intelligence.
01 — The Researcher
Biology is the most complex code ever written. I use computation to read it.
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A computational biologist trained at the seam of wet-lab science and machine learning, Brishna builds models that capture how living systems actually behave — beginning with how neurons grow.
For an MSc thesis at Kadir Has University, Brishna modeled neuronal growth dynamics with artificial neural networks — teaching a machine to learn the logic of a developing brain.
From diagnostic labs in Karachi to a research assistantship at TÜBİTAK in İstanbul, the throughline holds: turn messy biological data into insight you can trust.
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Academic scholarship
MSc’24
Computational Biology
ANN
Neuronal-growth models
TÜBİTAK
Research assistant
02 — Fields of practice
Where biology meets computation.
Bioinformatics
Working with sequences, signals and biological datasets to extract structure and meaning.
Artificial Neural Networks
Designing and training ANNs — the core method behind the neuronal-growth thesis.
Neuroscience Modeling
Modeling neuronal growth dynamics — how a developing brain wires itself, captured mathematically.
Machine Learning & Data
From feature engineering to validation — building models that generalise, not just memorise.
Wet-lab & Diagnostics
Hands-on lab and diagnostic experience — the biology behind the data stays real.
03 — The path
From the bench to the network.
Aug 2023 — Sep 2024Contract · Türkiye
Graduate Research Assistant
TÜBİTAK · İstanbul
Research, recruitment, training and presentations at Türkiye's national scientific & technological research council.
Oct 2022 — Dec 2023Part-time
Assistant Product Manager
Sovaye · İstanbul
Bridging technical work and product — coordinating features, users and delivery.
Jun — Aug 2022Full-time
Medical Laboratory Technologist
Chughtai Lab
Clinical diagnostics — the hands-on lab grounding behind computational biology.
Feb — Jun 2022Full-time · Pakistan
Assistant Research Officer
Center for Non-Communicable Diseases
Public-health research on non-communicable disease — data, protocols and analysis.
Oct — Dec 2021Internship · Karachi
Quality Assurance Intern
Dow IBBPS · DUHS
Quality assurance in a biological, biochemical & pharmaceutical sciences institute.
04 — Credentials
Trained across two continents.
MSc, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
BSc, Biosciences
TOEFL · 91
Languages
05 — How I work
The research pipeline.
Every project runs the same loop — from a biological question to an insight you can act on. Hover or tap each stage.
/01Question
/02Data
/03Model
/04Validate
/05Insight
Stage 01
Question
def question():
Start with a biological question worth answering — specific enough to test, important enough to matter.
06 — Recognition & research
Selected highlights.
100% Academic Scholarship
Full merit scholarship for the MSc in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at Kadir Has University.
2022Neuronal Growth × ANNs
Presented “Modeling Neuronal Growth Dynamics Using Artificial Neural Networks” at IFSCOM-E 2024.
2024Microbial Fuel Cells
Co-authored a comparative analysis of electric-current production by S. cerevisiae in a dual-chamber microbial fuel cell.
2021MSc research supervised by Dr. Ceren Gürkan · NeuroBM Laboratory.
07 — Say hello