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Anu Amallraja is a Lead Clinical Bioinformatics Analyst in the Department of Cancer Genomics at the Avera Cancer Institute. She has an undergraduate degree in Biotechnology Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India, and an MS in Biological and Medical Informatics from San Diego State University. She has over 5 years of experience in clinical cancer genomics creating bioinformatics tools and analyzing next-generation sequencing data. Her goal is to utilize software and data to inform decisions made by clinicians so patients receive the best possible therapeutic options. Travis is currently applying his interest in research to precision agriculture as a scientist/engineer in the Data Analytics team at Raven Industries, where he uses data in product development and system analysis to solve great challenges. There he has several patents and wrote a paper which demonstrated Raven’s automatic boom leveling system outperforms the competition. Travis also mentors graduate students to design experiments and dig through data in mechanical and biomedical engineering at South Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota.