Divya Sharma

I am working as a senior biostatistician at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre where I lead Machine learning projects at the Biostatistics Department. I am working on developing machine learning models using genomic, microbiome, image and clinical data in the area of cancer research. Our group also provides ML based consultancy to research groups within University Health Network. Prior to this role, I worked as a Scientific Associate at the Toronto General Hospital, UHN in the field of application of Machine Learning to Gastroenterology and genomic studies. I have also completed 2.5 years of postdoctoral research training at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and the University of Toronto under the co-supervision of Dr. Wei Xu. I am also serving as an Assistant Professor at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto , where I mainly teach about application of Machine Learning techniques to health data and clinical studies.

As a part of my postdoctoral research, I have worked towards developing novel neural network models in the area of disease prediction using microbiome data. I have been awarded the CIHR STAGE (Strategic Training for Advanced Genetic Epidemiology) fellowship (2020-2022).