Akash is a computational pathologist and medical imaging scientist, and pursued his Ph.D. in the Joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Computational Biology. His interest lies in investigating the intrinsic characteristics of histopathology images at multi-scale resolutions and develop insights into the spatial intratumoral heterogeneity in multiplex image data using methods such as statistical modeling, computer vision, machine learning, and graph-based deep-learning.