Dr. Vagheesh M. Narasimhan is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Statistics & Data Science at The University of Texas at Austin. After initially training in Electrical Engineering, with a focus on computer vision and information theory, Vagheesh did a Masters in Biostatistics at Harvard University under Curtis Huttenhower. He moved to the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to do a PhD in Genetics advised Chris Tyler-Smith and Richard Durbin. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School with David Reich and Nick Patterson. The research in his lab has been funded by the Paul Allen Family Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the MD Anderson Cancer Accelerator, Texas Biologics, the Origen Health Research Center at Tec de Monterey, Lyda Hill Philanthropies, Love Tito’s Foundation, and BioMarin Pharmaceuticals. In 2025, he received the UT Austin Provost's Research Excellence Award for the best research paper in a calendar year across all fields at the university.