APEKSHA BHUSHAN

About

B.Tech in Bioinformatics graduate with hands-on experience applying machine learning to cancer genomics, drug discovery, and survival analysis. Experienced in Python, scikit-learn, and bioinformatics pipelines, with a focus on data science and computational biology roles.

Experience

• Summer Research Fellow, Computational Biology
  JNU
  May 2025 – Jul 2025
• Research Intern, Bioinformatics
  CSIR-CIMAP
  Jun 2024 – Aug 2024

Education

• B.Tech
  Institution
  Bioinformatics · 2022 – 2026

Skills

• SQL
• C
• Python
• Feature Engineering
• Matplotlib
• NumPy
• Pandas
• scikit-learn
• Seaborn
• XGBoost
• Shap
• NGS
• Principal Component Analysis
• Cross Validation
• K-Means

Projects

• Breast Cancer Classification — Decision Tree & ML Baseline
  Decision Tree, Random Forest, Scikit-learn, Pandas, Python

  Built and compared tree-based classifiers on the Wisconsin Breast Cancer dataset to distinguish malignant from benign tumors.

• Driver Gene Identification in TCGA Ovarian Cancer via PCA & K-Means
  PCA, K-Means, GO/KEGG enrichment, Python

  Applied clustering and enrichment analysis to identify candidate driver-gene clusters in TCGA ovarian cancer data.

• Explainable ML & Survival Analysis for Breast Cancer Prognosis
  XGBoost, SHAP, LASSO, Cox regression, Python

  Built an explainable ML pipeline on the METABRIC dataset to predict patient outcomes using biomarker reduction, XGBoost, and Cox survival models.

Courses & certifications

• AICTE | IBM SkillsBuild Academic Internship – Data Analytics with AI · IBM SkillsBuild · 2026
• Data Analytics Job Simulation · Deloitte x Forage · 2025
• Machine Learning Training · Internshala Trainings in association with IITM Pravartak · 2025

⚽ Extracurricular activities

• Workshop Participant, Generative AI & Human-Robot Interaction

  Participated in a workshop at IIIT Allahabad.

• Organiser, International Political Summit on Cancer Care Equity

  Organised a summit focused on cancer care equity.

• Volunteer Organiser, FAVBS 2025 National E-Conference

  Helped organise a national e-conference with 500+ participants.

• NSS Volunteer

  Served as an NSS volunteer at SHUATS.

🤝 Volunteering

• SHUATS · NSS Volunteer · 2022

  NSS volunteer from 2022 to present.