Alister D'Costa is a Doctoral Candidate at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, specializing in bioinformatics and genomics with a focus on long read sequencing and structural variant analysis. D'Costa has a strong academic background, having completed a PhD in Computational Biology and a Master's in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Waterloo. D'Costa’s professional experience includes roles as a Teaching Assistant for various computer science courses at the University of Toronto, software development positions at SAP, Cyclica Inc., and Mount Sinai Hospital, and contributions to cancer bioinformatics at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.