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I'm a Staff Scientist at NNRL, NEI with Dr. Anand Swaroop. Previously, I was a Research Fellow at NCBI, NLM, National Institutes of Health with Dr. Teresa M. Przytycka working on computational biology. Previously, I was a PostDoc University of Connecticut with Prof. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Prof. Jinbo Bi. I completed my M.Tech. and Ph.D. from the CSE at IIT Bombay advised by Prof. Abhiram Ranade. I also worked on a DBT India funded project on Computational Biology investigated by Prof. Srinivas Aluru and Prof. Ranade, and interned at IBM Research India under Dr. T. S. Jayram. I was a Software Design Engineer at Texas Instruments India. I got a B.E. from CST at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology.

Current Research Interests

• Bioinformatics

• Genomics

• High Performance Computing

• Machine Learning

Selected Publications

• Modeling gene expression evolution with EvoGeneX uncovers differences in evolution of species, organs and sexes. S Pal, B Oliver, TM Przytycka. Journal of Computational Biology, August 2022

• Hybrid-DCA: A Double Asynchronous Approach for Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent. S Pal, T Xu, T Yang, S Rajasekaran and J Bi. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 143, Pages 47-66, September 2020

• Bioinformatics pipeline using JUDI: Just Do It!. S Pal,  TM Przytycka. Bioinformatics 2019

• Co-SELECT reveals sequence non-specific contribution of DNA shape to transcription factor binding in vitro. S Pal, J Hoinka, TM Przytycka. Nucleic Acids Research 2019

• Efficient sequential and parallel algorithms for finding edit distance based motifs. S Pal, P Xiao, S Rajasekaran. BMC Genomics 2016