Nitin Gupta @ UCSD

CV


Publications | Projects | Education


Work Experience (Internships)

  • Amgen, Inc, Seattle, Summer 2006.
  • Genomatica, Inc., San Diego, Summer 2005.
  • Complex Systems Division, Lund University, Sweden, Summer 2003.
  • National Center for Biological Sciences, India, Winter 2002 and March 2003.

Conference Organization

Grants Funded

  • $50,000 (2007-2008): Next Generation Computational Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics. Awarded by William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Advancement (with Pavel Pevzner and Vineet Bafna).

Teaching

  • BENG 202 - TA for Sequence and Structure Analysis
  • CSE 190 - I was the student coordinator for the HHMI funded Bioinformatics Undergraduate Research Consortium. See HHMI Press Release, and an official YouTube video.
  • Director, UBER-Grid

Conference Presentations (Talks)

  • Comparative Proteogenomics. Presented at the annual conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, June 2008 (Denver, Colorado)
  • Introductory speech at the First La Jolla Bioinformatics Conference, April 2008 (La Jolla, California).
  • Bioinformatics Undergraduate Research Consortium @ UCSD. Presented at HHMI Society of Professors meeting, March 2007 (Chevy Chase, Maryland)

Honors/Awards
  • Gordon Fellowship Medal and Graduate Engineering Leadership Award, awarded by UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, 2009.
  • Diane Lin Scholarship, awarded by the University of California and the Friends of the International Center Society, 2009.
  • Graduate Fellowship from the Bioinformatics program at UCSD, 2004-2006.
  • Ratan Swarup Memorial Award for "the best all round performance amongst all Bachelor of Technology and Master of Science (Integrated) students", at I.I.T. Kanpur Convocation, 2004.
  • All India Rank 1 in the Joint Entrance Exam to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT-JEE), 2000.
  • National Talent Search Scholarship awarded by the Government of India, 1998.
  • Named in the state-wide merit list of Rajasthan for academic performance in secondary school, 1998.
  • 5th Prize in the state-wide Science Talent Search Exam organized by the Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of Rajasthan, 1998.

Other Activities
  • Co-founder and member, NGO Post, 2007-Present
  • Member, UCSD Squash Ladder, 2007-Present
  • Founder and member, Udai, 2005-2007
  • Founder, Hindi Kalam, 2006
  • Co-founder and member, Shiksha Sopan, 2001-2004
  • Member of the Student's Senate, the student's representative body at IIT Kanpur, 2001
  • Secretary of Tech Carnival and the T-shirt Cell in Techkriti, the annual technical festival of IIT Kanpur, 2001.