Experience
MRFF Covid-19 Drug Repurposing Project & FDA Covid-19 Systems Biology-AIML Project | CSIRO Australia
January 2021 - Present
This project is funded by the FDA and the Australian government.
Working under the supervision of Dr. Rohitash Chandra, Professor S.S. Vasan and, Dr. Vinti Agarwal.
- Working with a team of international researchers to re-purpose drugs already approved for other diseases to fight COVID and its variants.
- Employing multiomics approach to evaluate the biochemical utility of shortlisted compounds.
- Responsible for designing the experiments and optimising the parameters involved using machine learning.
May 2020 - July 2020
NESAC is a government research lab serving eight states of India’s North Eastern Region using space science and technology.
- Developed three advanced land cover classification models for integration with QGIS through a plugin (QAi Toolbox).
- Achieved a kappa score of 0.81 on pixel-based models and accuracy of 94.46% on CNN-based image segmentation models.
- QAi Toolbox was selected amongst the top 30 worldwide for presentation at QGIS North America 2020, an annual international conference conducted by OSGeo.
Projects
De-Novo Genome Assembler, Project Funding Period - 3 yrs | Mentor: Dr. Poonam Goyal
January 2021 - December 2021
Did project type courses for two consecutive semesters at advanced data analytics and parallel technologies lab, BITS Pilani.
- Implemented a two-level hash table structure to reduce the retrieval time and to make the algorithm easy to distribute and parallelize.
- Designed a structure, sequence vector to cap the memory requirement at 2x Insert Length/contig and reduced overhead memory cost.
- Devised a maximum voting algorithm to increase the intermediate assembly length by 30%.
Research Paper Implementation | Mentor: Dr. Surekha Bhanot
August 2021 - December 2021
- Implemented the v3 inception net architecture described in the paper ‘Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision’ from scratch in Pytorch.
- Achieved a top 1 accuracy score of 75.12% and top 5 accuracy score of 92.57% on tiny ImageNet dataset.
MiRNA and Acquisition of Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells | Mentor: Dr. Rajdeep Chowdhury
January 2020 - May 2020
- Analysed deep sequencing data of osteosarcoma cells in four different stages.
- Identified deregulated miRNA-mRNA sets responsible for the development of drug resistance to cisplatin.
- Studied and examined the impact of miRNA deregulation on cellular processes.