From March 2009 to December 2013, I worked in the Orpailleur research team at the Inria Nancy in France. I was an Inria PhD student from Mar 2009 to Sept 2012. I was a research and teaching assistant at the University of Lorraine (ex-Nancy 2) from Oct 2012 to Aug 2013. From Sept 2013 to Dec 2013 I was an Inria research engineer.
In January 2014, I joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Mauritius as a lecturer. In March 2017, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering grew into the Faculty of Information, Communication and Digital Technologies. In April 2018, I was promoted to the grade of Senior Lecturer. In January 2023, I was promoted to the grade of Associate Professor.
PhD Informatics (Bioinformatics), University of Lorraine, France, 2012
MSc Bioinformatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2008
BSc (Hons) Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 2007
Understanding how the protein interactome works at a structural level could provide useful insights into the mechanisms of diseases. Comparative homology modelling and ab initio protein docking are two computational methods for modelling the three-dimensional (3D) structures of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Previous studies have shown that both methods give significantly better predictions when they incorporate experimental PPI information. However, in general, PPI information is often not available in an easily accessible way, and cannot be re-used by 3D PPI modelling algorithms. Hence, there is currently a need to develop a reliable framework to facilitate the reuse of PPI data. My PhD thesis presents a systematic knowledge-based approach for representing, describing and manipulating 3D interactions to study PPIs on a large scale and to facilitate knowledge-based modelling of protein-protein complexes.
PDF: A copy of my thesis and the presentation slides of my defence (4up).
Supervisors: Marie-Dominique Devignes, Malika Smail-Tabbone and Dave Ritchie.
Funding: Agence Nationale de la Recherche and Orpailleur research project.