Susheel Varma
GA4GH AI Work Stream Co-Lead at Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSusheel Varma is a technology and data leader who builds national-scale, federated biomedical data platforms and translates complex regulatory, technical and research needs into practical systems. Currently CDO at Sage Bionetworks and GA4GH AI Work Stream Co-Lead, he oversees multi-petabyte research infrastructure and multi-million dollar portfolios enabling collaborative cancer, Alzheimer’s, rare disease and digital health studies. He previously founded the UK’s Trusted Research Environment network at HDR UK and stood up the ICO’s AI & Data Science team, blending hands-on engineering with policy and assurance expertise. With a PhD in computational systems biology and 18+ years bridging academia, govtech and industry, he is known for pragmatic Privacy-by-Design implementations and making FAIR data work across clouds and international consortia. A published author and frequent keynote speaker, he focuses on trustworthy AI in healthcare and unblocking siloed data to accelerate ethical research.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B Tech Information Technology, B Tech Information Technology at Pondicherry UniversityOur Own English High SchoolPhD Computational Systems Biology, PhD Computational Systems Biology at The University of SheffieldMaster of Business Administration - MBA Management of Research Infrastructures, Master of Business Administration - MBA Management of Research Infrastructures at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Arabic, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil
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Github Skills (98)
metadata10
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schema10
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hdr10
gateway10
beacon10
health10
jekyll10
api9
genomics9
bioinformatics9
driver9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
susheel/susheel
Mar 2021 - Apr 2025
Github Profile
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
HDRUK/covid-19
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
HDR UK - Resources for 🦠COVID-19 Research
Contributions:83 commits, 3 PRs, 81 pushes in 21 days
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