My education and affiliations

Current affiliation

June 2023 - present Sr Data Scientist I,

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)