I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) since July 2021. I am also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), the Department of Bioengineering, and the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) graduate program at UCSD. My lab is also affiliated with the Center of Machine-Integrated Computing and Security (MICS), Center of Microbiome Innovation (CMI) and the Institute for Genomic Medicine (IGM) at UCSD.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz. I obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2019 from Stanford University and my bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay in 2014.

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Office: 0104, Franklin Antonio Hall, UC San Diego
Email: yturakhia [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Phone: (858) 534-4493