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Author: Dr. Goutam Nistala
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Dr. Goutam Nistala works with academic researchers across the country to support innovation and remove barriers to science. Prior to working at AWS, Goutam was a principal product manager and staff scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific and led the development and commercialization of many genomic solutions for Oncology, Immuno-oncology, and inherited diseases currently used in various testing labs and healthcare systems around the world. Goutam served as a fellow and advisor to various angel investment groups curating deal flow and advising on biomedical device technologies. Goutam got his PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and did postdoctoral research at Stanford University.
How researchers at UC Davis support the swine industry with data analytics on AWS
A research team led by Dr. Beatriz Martinez Lopez at UC Davis supports pig farmers with a data analytics platform that aggregates and analyzes animal health data to diagnose animal viruses and diseases. But this platform was primarily designed for analysts and data scientists. To truly transform animal disease management, Martinez-Lopez wants to put this data analytics tool into the hands of farmers around the world. So the research team is using the scalable, cost-effective tools of the AWS Cloud, along with a research grant letter of support from AWS, to make this optimized platform a reality.