Hi, I'm Ashka Shah. I'm a fifth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago, advised by Rick Stevens. I am interested in accelerating discovery for high-dimensional problems in science with AI and autonomous experimentation. My recent work is on causal discovery with graph partitioning for recovering causal links in genome-scale networks.

I did my undergraduate degree at Harvey Mudd College, majoring in physics. After that, I worked at the National Ignition Facility where I wrote code for simulating laser physics.
Last summer, I interned at the Flatiron Institute in Olga Troyanksaya's lab working on causal discovery of human tissue-specific gene regulatory networks. Prior to that I interned at Argonne National Laboratory working in the Rapid Prototyping Lab for autonomous experimentation.