Portrait of Swapnil Keshari

Swapnil Keshari

Graduate Student Researcher

Swapnil is a Computational biologist enthusiast with a keen interest in the field of genomics. Before joining the CPCB program, he completed his B.Tech. in chemical engineering from IIT Bombay, India. He likes to travel a lot and is always up for outdoor sports :). In addition to that, he loves to read crime fiction novels, paint, and swim.

Changelog (4)

August, 2026

Swapnil Keshari graduates from the Joint CMU-Pitt Computational Biology Program and the Das lab. We wish him best of luck for his future endeavors

July, 2026

Swapnil Keshari successfully defends his PhD Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Keshari!

February, 2024

Swapnil Keshari successfully defends his proposal to be a PhD Candidate

January, 2022

Swapnil Keshari joins the lab as a PhD student from CPCB Program

Publications (5)

A unified network systems approach uncovers a core program underlying T follicular helper cell differentiation

07/22/2026 - Nature Communications
Omelchenko A, Rahman S, Wang A, Tabib T, [...], Pillai S, Elsner R^, Mahajan V^, Das J^

Immune BioGraphy: A tale of graphical approaches in systems and virtual immunology

06/05/2026 - Cell Systems
Keshari S*, Chakraborty T*, Das J^

Blimp1 shapes germinal center B-cell clonal diversity by gating chromatin accessibility during light-to-dark zone transition

04/20/2026 - Nature Immunology
Manakkat Vijay G, Ramaswami B, Gierlack S, Pease N, [...], Salomonis N, Das J, Rothstein D, Singh H

Agonism of the glutamate receptor GluK2 suppresses dermal mast cell activation and cutaneous inflammation

12/11/2024 - Science Translational Medicine
Zhang YR, Keshari S, Kurihara K, Liu J, [...], Falo LD Jr, Das J, Sumpter TL, Kaplan DH

Deciphering the impact of genomic variation on function

09/04/2024 - Nature
IGVF Consortium

News (8)

September, 2026
Swapnil wins Most Well Rounded Student of the year Award, Runner Up across the School of Medicine in 31st Graduate Student Research Symposium
July, 2026
Swapnil Keshari gave a talk at RegSys COSI at ISMB 2026 on "Functional and Interpretable Regulatory encoding of Cellular Fate Decision (FIREFate)"
April, 2026
Swapnil wins 2026 GPSG Leadership and Service Award for his leadership endeavors over the graduate school
April, 2026
Swapnil wins 2026 Sustainability Champion for his creating a sustainable 30th SOM GSRS
October, 2025
We officially have a Pilot in the lab. Swapnil Keshari becomes a FAA part 61 Private Pilot.
October, 2025
Swapnil received BGSA's Travel Grant Award, for his peresentation in IGVF Conference in Durham!
September, 2025
Swapnil Keshari wins Elevator Pitch at the 23rd Department of Immunology Retreat
February, 2024
Swapnil Keshari received an award from NCWIT for mentoring high school student