My education and affiliations

Current affiliation 

June 2023 - present Lead Data Scientist, 

                                   Corteva Agriscience, USA 

July 2021- June 2023 Research Fellow

July 2016 - July 2021  Postdoctoral research fellow

                                      Computational Biology Branch (CBB), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM),

                                      National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA  

                                      Advisor: Dr. L. Aravind

Education 

2016            Ph.D. Life Sciences

                      CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

                     Advisor: Dr. Srikrishna Subramanian

                     Dissertation: “Understanding Sequence/Structure/Function relationships among zinc finger proteins”. 

2010            B.Ed.

                     Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

2009            M.Sc. Biotechnology

                    Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

                    Advisor: Dr. Kakoli Biswas

                    Dissertation: RAPD and Microsatellite based polymorphisms in three medicinal plants- Boerhavia diffusa, Trianthema portulacastrum and Trianthema monogyna. 

2007            B.Sc. 

                    Panjab University, Chandigarh, India 

Other certifications

·   Office Automation Using PC certificate course offered by DOAECC CENTER, Chandigarh (an autonomous body of the dept. of Information Tech., Ministry of Communications and Information Tech., Govt. of India)

·   Certificate program in Perl programming by National Institute of Computer Technology (an ISO 9001: 2008 Certified Organization), Chandigarh, India

·   Certified General Course On Intellectual Property from World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy

·   Scientists Teaching Science 9-week Pedagogy course conducted by the Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE), National Institutes of Health (NIH)