Karthik Devarajan is an associate research professor with the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Fox Chase Cancer Center and an affiliated faculty member with the Center for High-dimensional Statistics, Temple University’s Big Data Institute. His primary research interests include statistical and machine learning methods for large-scale data stemming from neuroscience, biomedical informatics, and high-throughput biological studies such as next-generation sequencing, methylation, metabolomics, proteomics as well as compound screening. He has developed unsupervised methods based on matrix and tensor factorisations for high-dimensional data as well as supervised methods for survival analysis and predictive modelling. Previously, he held research positions at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey and in the Cancer Bioinformatics Group at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in Boston.