Avi Srivastava

Dr. Avi Srivastava is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Stony Brook University in 2019. His laboratory focuses on three core research areas: (1) developing innovative single-cell technologies to investigate cellular heterogeneity; (2) creating high-throughput probabilistic models for precise quantification of single-cell data; and (3) applying novel computational methods to study alternative splicing and chromatin dynamics in hematopoietic systems.

Research interests center on Single-cell Biology, Computational Biology, Alternative Splicing, Chromatin Dynamics, and Hematopoiesis. Dr. Srivastava invites students to discuss rotation projects in these domains.

His publications emphasize scalable computational tools for single-cell genomics, with recurring themes in multimodal data integration, chromatin state characterization, and efficient RNA-seq quantification. Recent work demonstrates a strong focus on improving accuracy and interpretability in single-cell analysis, particularly in cancer and hematopoietic contexts.

Dr. Srivastava leads an active research group at the Wistar Institute, collaborating on method development for single-cell genomics and contributing to best practices in the field.