Principal Investigator

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PhD Students

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Past

Janani R IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2016 - 2022), PhD awarded in June 2022 Awarded HBNI Outstanding Doctoral Students Award 2023 in Life Sciences Next Position: Research Data Steward, Novo Nordisk Link to PhD Thesis Publications RP Vivek Ananth IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2016 - 2022), PhD awarded in November 2022 Next Position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Nathan Price, Thorne Research, USA Link to PhD Thesis Publications Subbaroyan Ajay IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2019 - 2024), PhD awarded in July 2024 Next Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Link to PhD Thesis Publications Ajaya Kumar Sahoo IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2019 - 2024), PhD awarded in December 2024 Awarded HBNI Outstanding Doctoral Students Award 2025 in Life Sciences Next Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Seoul, South Korea Link to PhD Thesis Publications

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Past

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• Sreejanani Sankar (PhD, University of Madras, Chennai)
• BS Karthikeyan (PhD, Bharathidasan University, Trichy)
• K Deyasi (PhD, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata)

Project Staff

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Past

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• Sabrina Elsa Eapen
• Shashank Sinha
• Preeti Semwal
• Geetha R
• Jayalakshmi A
• Kundhanathan R
• Kishan Kumar
• Priya Shree
• Ishwarya M
• Gokul Balaji D
• Saumitra Kulkarni
• Vinayak T
• Priya Darshini A
• Yasharth Yadav
• Madhumita Mondal
• Pavithra E
• K Kavya
• M Karthikeyan
• A Sudharsan
• K Harish
• S Vijayakumar
• B Gayathri
• RP Sreejith
• RP Bharath Chand
• M Vadanashree
• RP Vivek Ananth

Previous Masters or Bachelors Thesis Students

• Shreelekshmi R (BS-MS Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati)
• Suchetana Mitra (BS-MS Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali)
• Yasharth Yadav (BS-MS Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune)
• S Vishalini Rajaram (M.Tech. Computational Biology, Anna University, Chennai)
• Evanjalee A (M.Tech. Computational Biology, Anna University, Chennai)
• Sarath Jyotsna R (PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore)
• Sudharsan V (PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore)
• Rajesh G (B. Tech. Biotechnology, Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chennai)
• Nithin R (B. Tech. Biotechnology, Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chennai)
• Prakruthi Burra (M.Sc. (H) Biological Science and B.E. (H) Computer Science, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad)
• Subathra Vijayakumar (B. Tech. Bioinformatics, SASTRA, India)
• Roshani Narasimhan (B.Tech. ICT, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar)
• Aashish Shivkumar (B.Tech. Pharmaceutical Technology, Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai)
• RP Bharath Chand (M.Sc Computational Biology, University of Kerala, India)
• G Ramesh (M.Tech., Bharathidasan University, India)
• P Sreelekha (B.Tech., SASTRA, India)
• Ahammed Abu Lifeon (M.Tech., Bharathidasan University, India)
• M Karthikeyan (B.Tech., Bharathidasan University, India)
• RP Sreejith (Univeristy of Kerala, India)
• Pavithra E (PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore)
• SR Poornima (Anna University, Chennai)
• C Tamilmaran (Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore)
• S Divya (Tamil Nadu Agricultural Univeristy, Coimbatore)
• A Sudharsan (Anna University, Chennai)
• P Singla (Central University of South Bihar, Gaya)

Previous Interns

• Swetha Mangot (NISER Bhubaneswar)
• Rachita K. Kumar (SASTRA)
• Anushree Dhar (Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine)
• Richa Mishra (BITS Pilani)
• S.R. Aparna (Stella Maris College)
• Karunya Shinger (Stella Maris College)
• Pappa Alpho Judy (Stella Maris College)
• J Ashreya (Stella Maris College)
• Lakshmi K (Anna University)
• S Bharath (IIT Madras)
• B Arul Praveen (IIT Madras)
• Ravi Kumar Allaparthi (IIT Madras)
• Harish K (NIT Trichy)

Student Awards and Honors

• Ajaya Kumar Sahoo was awarded the HBNI Outstanding Doctoral Student Award 2025 in Life Sciences for his PhD research.
• Priyotosh Sil received a Flash talk award of Rs. 5000 at the 47th Indian Biophysical Society Meeting (IBS 2025), March 6-9, 2025, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
• Shreyes Rajan Madgaonkar was awarded Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Microplastic Research Innovation & Sustainable Management, February 15-16, 2025, IISER Kolkata, India.
• Priyotosh Sil received a travel award of 350 € to attend European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB), July 22-26, 2024, Toledo, Spain.
• Priyotosh Sil was awarded Raman-Charpak Fellowship by Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA) to visit Univ Paris-Saclay, France for 3 months.
• Shanmuga Priya B was awarded Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Bioinformatics in Health and Food Security, February 14-16, 2024, Pondicherry University, India.
• Nikhil Chivukula was awarded Best Poster Award at the 17th Annual International Biocuration Conference 2024, March 5-8, 2024, Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, India.
• Janani R was awarded the HBNI Outstanding Doctoral Student Award 2023 in Life Sciences for her PhD research.
• Vivek Ananth RP was granted Individuals with Extraordinary Ability in Sciences (O-1A) visa by the United States of America to conduct Postdoctoral research at Thorne Research in New York.
• Yasharth Yadav was awarded Best Poster Award at the Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD 2022), December 15-18, 2022 held at IISER Pune, India. This award of 200 € cash prize and an invitation to publish an open access article free of charge was sponsored by the prestigious journal Europhysics Letters.
• Ajaya Kumar Sahoo was awarded Best Poster Award at the HBNI Theme Meeting on Life Sciences, September 7-10, 2022 held at RRCAT, Indore, India.
• B.S. Karthikeyan was awarded Best Poster Award at the Society of Biological Chemists (India) conference (SBCI-2019), October 31 to November 3, 2019 held at BARC, Mumbai, India.
• B.S. Karthikeyan was awarded Second Prize in the theme Swasth Bharat at the Young Scientists Conference, India International Science Festival (IISF-2019), November 5-8, 2019 held at Kolkata, India.
• M. Karthikeyan was accepted in the Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB), Germany.
• K. Harish was accepted in the PhD program in Mathematics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA.