M. Madan Babu FRS FRSC FMedSci is an Indian-American computational biologist and bioinformatician.

[1][3] He is the endowed chair in biological data science and director of the center of excellence for data-driven discovery at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

[5] He became interested in learning to program as a young child when his father brought home a personal computer.

[5] He obtained his Bachelor of Technology degree from Anna University, where he was introduced to the field of computational biology.

[5] Babu obtained his PhD in computational genomics at the University of Cambridge supervised by Sarah Teichmann in 2004.