Affiliate Faculty, Department of Information Sciences & Technologies

Email: [email protected]
Office: MAK C-2-311
Phone: 616-331-3033

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Education
M.S. in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, Grand Valley State University, 2024
Doctor of Pharmacy, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 2019

Asynchronous Courses: CIS 160 - 01, CIS 160 - 09 (Hybrid Asynchronous)

Charitha Subrahmanya is an affiliate faculty member in the College of Computing at Grand Valley State University. Her teaching spans both core computing and applied informatics, with particular emphasis on databases, data structures, web programming, Python, R, data visualization, and artificial intelligence. 

She is passionate about helping students build strong programming foundations while applying their technical knowledge to real-world challenges in healthcare, genomics, finance, and business analytics. Her courses often encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, welcoming students from computing, health sciences, pharmacy, finance, and marketing to reflect the interconnected nature of today’s technology-driven landscape. 

Charitha’s professional journey has been shaped by her experience as an international and her years in industry. This background inspires her commitment to bridging the gap between academic learning and workplace needs. She focuses on equipping students with not only the conceptual knowledge of computing but also the hands-on skills and applied perspective that make them competitive in a rapidly evolving job market. Her research lies at the intersection of data engineering and biomedical informatics, where she develops scalable data pipelines, APIs, and knowledge bases to support genomic and clinical data integration. 

She applies machine learning, natural language processing, and statistical modeling to projects in drug safety, patient safety, rare disease prediction, cancer transcriptomics, and microbiome studies. She also explores semantic frameworks to enhance health IT infrastructure and mentors students on interdisciplinary projects that advance informatics research.

Charitha is an active member of the Health and Bioinformatics Journal Club at GVSU and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Her ongoing projects include transcriptional signatures of microbiome response, AI and data integration in triple-negative breast cancer, and mining patient and clinician narratives for safety surveillance using NLP. Outside the classroom and lab, Charitha enjoys music, yoga, authentic cooking, and arts and crafts as creative outlets. She values cultural exchange and mentoring international students, creating inclusive and empathetic environments that reflect her own global academic journey.

• Subrahmanya, C. et al. (2024). SARS-CoV-2 genotyping and spike protein drift challenges. Microorganisms, 12(9), 1863. 
• Charitha KS et al. (2019). Cutaneous vasculitis due to ciprofloxacin. IJRAP, 10(3), 83–86. 
• Charitha KS & Reddy, M. (2019). Weil’s disease with conjunctival suffusion. IJRAP, 10(3), 107–110. 
• Charitha KS., Reddy, M. et al. (2018). Drug utilization in CKD patients. Global Journal of Medical Research, 18, 1–9.

• Mining Patient and Clinician Narratives for Safety Surveillance: An NLP Framework Integrating Reddit, PSNet, and FAERS. 
• Transcriptional Signatures of Cellular Microbiome Response with Atlas-Scale Non-Negative Matrix Factorization. 
• AI and Data Integration in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.
• The Molecular Architecture of Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Integrated Omics Reveal Therapeutic Pathways.
• Alternative Splicing and MicroRNA Regulation in Thymoma – Scholar’s Day 2025 (Mentor)