Research Experience

Systems Biology Lab

Oct 2024 - Present
Affiliation: Columbia University, New York
Position: Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Supervisor: Prof. Barry Honig
Focus: Establishing protein-protein interactions between virus and human using Bayesian network.
Techniques: Structural analyses, Bayesian network-based training, ML-based feature optimization, graph theory-based interactome analysis.

Computational Chemistry

June - Sep, 2024
Affiliation: Johnson & Johnson
Position: Summer Intern
Supervisor: Ishika Saha
Focus: Relating permeability and chameleonicity of bRo5 compounds to conformational space.
Techniques: Feature selection and optimization using random forest, gradient boosting machines and elastic net regression, Schrödinger suites like Maestro and Jaguar.

Computational Biophysics Lab

Dec 2019 - Sep 2024
Affiliation: University of California, Riverside
Position: Graduate Student Researcher
Supervisor: Dr. Giulia Palermo
Focus: Structural and conformational characterization of gene editing proteins, especially Cas12a.
Techniques: Molecular Dynamics, enhanced sampling, alchemical free energy simulations, allostery, network theory, Hybrid QM-MM.

Computational & Data Sciences Lab

June - Sep, 2021
Affiliation: Amgen
Position: Summer Intern
Supervisor: Edward Williams
Focus: ML models for end-to-end differentiable force field construction.
Techniques: GNN type ML model, data science, molecular mechanics, small molecule parameterization.

Vascular Biomechanics Lab

Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Affiliation: University of California, Riverside
Position: Graduate Student Rearcher / Research Fellow
Supervisor: Dr. Kaustabh Ghosh
Focus: Spatial and temporal micromechanical control of Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) on monkey choroidal endothelial cells.
Techniques: Animal cell culture, flow cytometry, phase contrast and fluorescence microscopy, PCR, Western blots.

Biochemistry Research Lab

Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Affiliation: Heritage Institute of Technology, India
Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Supervisor: Dr. Riddhi Goswami
Focus: Preventive effect of curcumin against Cisplatin-related hepatotoxicity in Swiss Albino mice.
Techniques: Animal testing, Western blots, PCR, biochemical analyses of macromolecules.

Biomedical Engineering Lab

Jun - Jul, 2017
Affiliation: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Position: Summer Intern Fellow
Supervisor: Dr. Treena Livingston Arinzeh
Focus: Piezoelectric effect of zinc oxide composite scaffold for chondrogenesis.
Techniques: Animal cell culture, electrospinning, scanning electron microscopy, scaffolding.

Protein Engineering Lab

Jun - Aug, 2016
Affiliation: National Institute of Immunology, India
Position: Summer Intern Fellow
Supervisor: Dr. Monica Sundd
Focus: Purification, biochemical characterization and mutagenesis of acyl carrier proteins.
Techniques: Protein purification, Western blot, mutagenesis study, cell transformation, column chromatography.

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