Shyam Prabhakar obtained a B.Tech in electronics and communications engineering from IIT Madras and a PhD degree in applied physics from Stanford University, where he received the 2001 American Physical Society PhD Thesis Award for Beam Physics. Following postdoctoral research in Mathematics at Stanford and Genomics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he joined the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS). His lab uses spatial and single-cell assays along with novel algorithms to identify disease markers and mechanisms.
Prabhakar’s major initiatives include leading the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas (AIDA) consortium and the TISHUMAP spatial omics programme for drug target discovery. He also serves on the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) Organising Committee as Global Coordination Lead, the HCA Executive Committee and the HCA-Asia Steering Committee; founded the Singapore Single Cell Network; and co-leads the HCA Genetic Diversity Network and the HCA Data Ecosystem Oversight Group.
