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Current Ph.D. Students

  • Piyush Agrawal

    Background

    Piyush Agrawal belongs to Gorakhpur (U.P). He did his graduation in B.Sc (Hons.) Microbiology from Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi in 2011. He did his post graduation in M.Sc Bioinformatics from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak in 2013 and was Gold Medalist.

    Area of interest

    In silico drug designing, Protein-ligand interaction, Cancer genomics, Development of various bioinformatics resources for therapeutic peptides

    Present Status

    Understanding the mechanism of protein-ligand interactions using in silico approaches

  • Salman Sadullah Usmani

    Background

    Salman Sadullah Usmani, an AMU alumnus, earned his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry. He was awarded University Gold Medal and Dr. J. I. Memorial Gold Medal for campus level extraordinary academic performance. Exposure to study molecular interaction in his M.Sc. Biotechnology motivated him to explore modern biology using computers. Currently, he is thesis graduate student in IMTECH with Dr. G. P. S. Raghava.

    Area of interest

    Immunoinformatics, Peptide informatics, Aims at developing unique peptides able to cross cell boundary milieu for efficient delivery of drugs as smart cell transfer agent.

    Present Status

    Understanding immunoinformatics and expeimental design for efficient cell penetrating peptides.

  • Rajesh Bhardwaj

    Background

    Rajesh Bhardwaj belongs to Kaithal (Haryana). He did his graduation in Biotechnology (honours) from Kurukshetra university Kurukshetra, Haryana. He did his post graduation in Biotechnology from Kurukshetra University kurukshetra.

    Area of interest

    Data mining, designing anticancer molecules, software development and artificial intellligence.

    Present Status

    Designing anticancer molecules and their experimental validation in lab.

  • Harpreet Kaur

    Background

    She is Graduated in Biotechnology from S.D. College, Barnala (Punjabi University Patiala) and has completed Post Graduation in MSc(Hons) Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar. She has also worked as Worked as Lecturer (Department of Biotechnolgy) in S.D. College, Barnala, Punjab.

    Area of interest

    Cancer Genomics, Data Mining, Identification of Genomic Signatures and Biomarkers, Prediction of Therapeutic peptides.

    Present Status

    Identification of prognostic biomarkers for liver cancer.

  • Vinod Kumar

    Background

    He did his graduation in Biotechnology from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He did his post graduation in Marine Biotechnology from Goa University.

    Area of interest

    Using in silico and experimental approaches to develop therapeutic and diagnostics for infections diseases.

    Present Status

    Development of therapeutic peptide based in silico resources.

  • Neelam Sharma

    Background

    Neelam Sharma belongs to Aligarh (U.P.).She did her graduation in B.Sc. Biotechnology from Gagan College of Management & Technology, Aligarh in 2013. She did her post-graduation in M.Sc. Biotechnology from GLA University, Mathura in 2015 and was awarded, Gold Medal for Outstanding Academic Performance. She had also worked as Lecturer (Department of Biotechnology) in GCMT, Aligarh, U.P. She has also awarded DST-INSPIRE Fellowship.

    Area of interest

    Immunoinformatics, Vaccine-informatics and Machine Learning

    Present Status

    Understanding the Advancements in the field of Vaccine-Informatics.

  • Dilraj Kaur

    Background

    She did her graduation in B.Tech Biotechnology from Amity University, Lucknow(2011-2015). She did her post-graduation in M.Tech Computational biology from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIITD), New Delhi.

    Area of interest

    Big data science, Clinical-informatics, Immunoinformatics, Structural Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, machine learning, Personalized medicine development.

    Present Status

    Understanding the role of pattern recognition receptors in various cancer.

  • Sumeet Patiyal

    Background

    Sumeet Patiyal belongs to Himachal Pradesh. He did his graduation in B.Sc. (H) Biochemistry from Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, in 2014. He did his post-graduation in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics from Panjab University, Chandigarh, in 2016. He had also worked in the field of applied statistics.

    Area of interest

    Immunoinformatics, Genomics, Proteomics, Applied Statistics, Development of Bioinformatics resources.

    Present Status

    Understanding the biomolecular interactions to annotate the mutation using the genomics data.

  • Anjali Dhall

    Background

    Anjali Dhall belongs to Jalandhar City (Punjab). She did her graduation in B.Sc. Non-Medical from H.M.V. College Jalandhar, G.N.D.U. University in 2015. She did her post-graduation in M.Sc. Bioinformatics from H.M.V. College Jalandhar, G.N.D.U. University in 2017 and was awarded, Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance.

    Area of interest

    Immunoinformatics, Genomics and Machine Learning.

    Present Status

    Understanding the Advancements in the field of precision vaccine designing.

  • Anjali Lathwal

    Background

    B.Tech and M.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering)

    Area of interest

    Knowledgebase creation, Machine learning, Survival analysis, Cancer genomics, Immunoinformatics, Monte carlo simulations, Mathematical modeling, Programming and Data Structures.

    Present Status

    Pursuing PhD (August,2015- till)

  • Chakit Arora

    Background

    B.Sc. Electronics Hons. (University of Delhi), M.Sc. Physics (University of Delhi)

    Area of interest

    Machine learning, Survival Analysis, Big data science, Clinical- informatics, Cancer Biology, Immunoinformatics, Personalized medicine development.

    Present Status

    Prognostication of cancer patients based on genomics and proteomics data