Biography

Nikunj Maheshwari is a data scientist having worked in biotech, food, pharma and finance industry. Currently, Nikunj works at EY Ireland as a Senior Manager in data science. In his free time, he also creates guided projects for Coursera on topics related to data science, machine learning and statistics. Previously, he has worked at Bank of Ireland, NIBRT and UCD in various data scientist/modelling roles.

Nikunj holds a PhD in Computational Infection Biology where he computationally mined for lanthipeptide antimicrobial peptides from ~3000 bacterial genomes. He studied these peptide’s evolution over time and between different bacterial taxonomy. The genome mining pipeline can be found here. His other research projects include prediction of protein-protein interaction (during his Masters) and development of a webserver to predict classes of snake toxins.

Apart from working full time, Nikunj enjoys tutoring and mentoring data science and computer science fundamentals to students and professionals as a part-time hobby. You can check out his public profile here. Nikunj can help you with your data science assignments/projects, please see Services for more information or use the Contact form for a free consultation.