Understanding the genomic changes associated with various types of cancer has perhaps been one of the most important topics of research in the past decade. Today we speak with Dr. Alva Rani James - a bionformatician working as Postdoc at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany who is using deep learning on genomic sequences to delve deeper into cancer genomics. Alva's research career spans highly prestigious institutions, such as the Charité University Hospital, German Cancer Research Center, ETH Zurich and Karolinska Institute. She is highly experienced in building bioinformatic and statistical pipelines for analyzing human big data. Alva shares her learnings and advice for those looking to build a career in analysing human big data using machine learning.

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