Smita Krishnaswamy is an American scientist and associate professor in
Genetics and Computer Science at Yale University. She specializes in the development of machine learning techniques to analyze high-dimensional high-throughput biomedical data with
applications in immunology, immunotherapy, cancer, neuroscience, developmental biology and health outcomes. Krishnaswamy organized the Open Problems in Single-Cell Biology effort with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and remains a scientific advisor for the project.