Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at Tezpur University, a Central University of India. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (FIE) and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE). Previously, he served Sikkim (Central) University as a Professor (04 years 10 months) and Associate Professor (03 years). He also served as Assistant Professor in IT at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, for over 11 years. He earned his M.Tech.(IT) and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Data Mining and Computational Biology, from Tezpur University, India. He completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati.
He has published extensively in leading international journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings and co-authored three books, including "Fundamentals of Data Science: Theory & Practice" and "Biological Network Analysis," both published by Elsevier-USA. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the IET Systems Biology Journal.
His accolades include the Best Doctoral Thesis Award from IIT Roorkee at the Intl Conf SocProS2013, the University Gold Medal for first position in M.Tech., an Overseas Research Associateship from DBT, Government of India, in 2015, and DST-SERB travel grant to present his research in Spain in 2012. He is also actively involved as a technical committee member and reviewer for various international conferences and esteemed journals.
A. Dean, School of Physical Sciences, Sikkim University [from February 2024-August 2025]
B. Head, Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim University [from 2019- 2023]
C. Associate Editor: IET Systems Biology (Wiley) [From November 2024 to Till]
D. Guest-Editor: IET System Biology ( Special Issue: "AI Augmented Disease Network Biology: Methods, Models and Applications")
E. Guest-Editor: Frontier-Bioinformatics/ Network Bioinformatics ( Special Issue: "Graph Representation Learning in Biological Networks")
F. Guest-Editor: MDPI-Data (Special Issue: "Big Network Inference, Integration and Analysis for Precision Medicine (BigDataNetAnalysis)") [ https://www.mdpi.com/journal/data/special_issues/BigDataNetAnalysis ]
G. Taught undergraduate and graduate students of computer science at the University of Colorado at CS, USA as a visiting professor, comprised of students from nearly 56 different countries.
H. Track Co-Chair for Biological Modelling at 8th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) 2017, Boston, USA.
I Dept of Sc. & Technology (DST-ICPS)-Govt. of India enlisted as one of the subject experts in the area of Data Science.
Industry Collaborations
ContexQ- A Singapore Based Fintech Startup (Role: Consultant Data Analytics [pro bono])
IQVIA Inc.-A Multinational Health Care Company (Role: AI Research Collaborator)
Academia Collaborations (International):
1. School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA
2. University of Catanzaro, Italy
3. University of Colorado, Colorado Spring. USA
4. McKendree University, Illinois, USA
5. Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
6. Regis University, Denver, USA
7. Umm Alqura University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Academic Collaborations (India):
1. Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
2. Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
3. Tezpur University, Tezpur
4. NIT Raipur
1. Dr. Keshab Nath (Awarded-2019)-Assistant Professor in CSE, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Kottayam
Thesis Title: Community Mining in Large Social Graphs using Machine Learning Approach
2. Dr. Syed Sazzad Ahmed (Awarded-2020) -Assistant Professor in CSE. Don Bosco University, Guwahati
Title: Inference and Analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks using Data Mining Techniques
3. Dr. Monica Jha (Awarded-2020)-Assistant Professor in CSE, GITAM University, Bangaluru
Title: Functional Module Extraction from Gene Expression Data using Data Mining Techniques
4. Dr Softya Sebastian (Awarded-2025)-Assistant Professor in CSE, VIT Chennai
Title: Towards Inference and Analysis of Large-Scale Gene Regulatory Networks
5. Dr Dasari Anantha Reddy (Awarded-2025)-Research Scholar at NIT-Raipur
Title: Towards Designing of Effective Detection Engine for Skin Disease Diagnosis
6. Mr Binon Teji (2020 to till)-Research Scholar at Sikkim (Central) University
Title: Representation Learning in Heterogeneous, Complex and Multimodal Biological Networks
7. Mr Bhaskar Jit Bora (2024 to till)-Research Scholar at Sikkim (Central) University
Title: Effective Semantic Segmentation in 3D Point Clouds using Deep Learning
8. Ms Lekhika Chettri (2019 to till)-Assistant Professor, Sikkim (Central) University
Title: Designing Machine Learning based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Internet of Things (IoT)
9. Ms Hazel Manner (Discontinued) NEHU, Shillong
Title: Designing Computational Methods For Analyzing Multiple Biological Networks
Machine Learning in Large Graphs,
Graph Neural Networks,
Agentic AI, Generative AI, LLM, Knowledge Graph
Data Science,
Network Biology,
Computational Biology.
Handled courses in PhD, M.Tech., B.Tech and MCA level:
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Data Mining and Data Warehousing
Bioinformatics
Algorithm Analysis & Design
Objected Oriented Modelling
Advanced Database System
Relational Database Management System
Software Engineering
Data Structure
Programming (C, C++, Java, Python)
Operating System
Research Methodology (PhD)