Chiraag Gohel

chiraaggohel@gwu.edu
GitHub
Semantic Scholar
My Blog

I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at The George Washington University, advised by Dr. Ali Rahnavard. My research focuses on developing statistical and machine learning methods for analyzing high-dimensional multi-omics data, with specific applications in metabolomics.

Software

• massSight: ion-aware probabilistic optimal transport for cross-study LC-MS feature correspondence
• pyihw: Python implementation of independent hypothesis weighting
• biorxiv-quarto: Quarto template for biorxiv preprints

Publications and Preprints

Preprints

• cellSight: Characterizing dynamics of cells using single-cell RNA-sequencing (2025)
  Chatterjee, R., Gohel, C., Shook, B. A., & Rahnavard, A.
  bioRxiv

Peer-reviewed

• Perceptions of dental students on the integration of artificial intelligence in radiology clinical education (2026)
  Suri, R. A., Gohel, C., Alghamdi, W., Crowther, B., Garcia, A. I., & Gohel, A.
  Frontiers in Dental Medicine

• Fibroblast-Mediated Macrophage Recruitment Supports Acute Wound Healing (2025)
  Amuso, V. M., Haas, M. R., Cooper, P. O., Chatterjee, R., Hafiz, S., Salameh, S., Gohel, C., Mazumder, M. F., Josephson, V., Kleb, S. S., Khorsandi, K., Horvath, A., Rahnavard, A., & Shook, B. A.
  Journal of Investigative Dermatology

• metLinkR: Facilitating Metaanalysis of Human Metabolomics Data through Automated Linking of Metabolite Identifiers (2025)
  Patt, A., Pang, I., Lee, F., Gohel, C., Fahy, E., Stevens, V., Ruggieri, D., Moore, S. C., & Mathé, E. A.
  Journal of Proteome Research

• Upregulated hepatic lipogenesis from dietary sugars in response to low palmitate feeding supplies brain palmitate (2024)
  Smith, M. E., Chen, C. T., Gohel, C. A., Cisbani, G., Chen, D. K., Rezaei, K., McCutcheon, A., & Bazinet, R. P.
  Nature Communications

• Molecular and spatial profiling of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (2023)
  Gao, C., Gohel, C. A., Leng, Y., Ma, J., Goldman, D., Levine, A. J., & Penzo, M. A.
  eLife

• Cell type-specific changes in Wnt signaling and neuronal differentiation in the developing mouse cortex after prenatal alcohol exposure during neurogenesis (2022)
  Sambo, D., Gohel, C., Yuan, Q., Sukumar, G., Alba, C., Dalgard, C. L., & Goldman, D.
  Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology