Honors and Awards
1. 2017: Selected for participation with full financial support in Summer School in Computational Biology for Infectious Disease at Quy Nhon Vietnam (16-24 September). Organized by Pasteur Institute and NIH.
2. 2014: Long Term HRD Fellowship in Foreign Institute from Department of Health Research, Government of India, New Delhi (not availed).
3. 2014 to till date: Editorial Board Member of 'Scientific Reports', Nature Publishing Group.
4. 2007: Travel award by Swiss Proteomic Society to attend 2007 congress of the Swiss Proteomics Society held at Lausanne, Switzerland.
5. 2005: Senior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India.
6. 2003: Junior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India.
7. 2002-2003: Scholarship from the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, to pursue Advanced Diploma (PG) in Bioinformatics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India).
8. 2002: Scored 93.50 percentile (All India Rank 163) in ‘Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)’ conducted by Indian Institute of Science.
9. 2002: Qualified UGC/NET (National Eligibility Test) conducted jointly by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and University Grants Commission (UGC).
10. 2000-2002: Scholarship from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, to earn Masters of Science in Biotechnology from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (INDIA).
11. 2000: Qualified All India Entrance Examination for M.Sc. in Biotechnology at Department of Biotechnology (Government of India) funded centers.
Invited Talks
1. 2nd International Caparica Conference in Antibiotic Resistance at Cost de Caparica, Portugal (12-15 June 2017). Title of Talk: Development of knowledge base of Beta-lactamases for mining their functional characters and reaction dynamics (15 June 2017).
2. Emerging Trends in Bioinformatics & Health Informatics at Indian Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi on 16-May-2017. Title of Talk: Understanding antibiotic resistance with in-silico tools (16-May-2017).
3. Recent Trends in Bioinformatics during 07-08 March 2017. Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (Punjab), India. Title of Talk: Use of Next Generation Sequencing in Modern Biological Research (08 March 2017).
4. Introduction to Perl programing language for biologists during 7-13 November 2016. Pt. J. N. M. Medical College, Raipur (C.G.), India.
5. National workshop on Bioinformatics-based Genomic & Proteomic Data Analysis in Microbial Domain during March 04-09, 2016. ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganism, Mau (Uttar Pradesh), India.
6. Annual Microbiology Festival "Microquest-16" on 16th March 2016. Sukshmjeev Society of Microbiology Department, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi, New Delhi.
7. Computational Approach to Understand Proteomes and Antibiotics Resistance (5th National Science Day Symposium 27-28 Feb, 2015. University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi).
8. Title: Combating Infectious Disease by Bioinformatics Approach. International Conference IC LIFE 2014 JIIT Noida 29-30 August 2014 (Session Chair). 29 Aug 2014 (30 min).
9. Protein Sequence-Structure-Function Relationship. Protein sequence-structure-function relationship. (3rd National Science Day Symposium 27-28 Feb, 2013. University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi).
10. Next Generation Sequencing: A new challenge for both biology and computer science. (Inter University Accelerator Center, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi. 25 May 2011).
11. Discovering new members of prion gene family. (1st National Science Day Symposium 28 Feb, 2011. University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi).
12. A quest to predict protein function. (Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata. 27 Nov 2009).
Conferences or Workshops Attended
1. ASM CME on “Antibiotic Resistance: Renewed Fears”. September 10, 2016. India International Center, New Delhi India
2. ICMR-NIAID workshop on systems biology of antimicrobial resistance. January 20-21, 2016. New Delhi.
3. National Conference on ‘New Trends in Bioinformatics’. July 30-31st 2012 at the Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi.
4. PrP Canada 2010: On The Horizon. March 8-10, 2010. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
5. PrP Canada 2009: Navigating the Risks. March 1-3, 2009. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
6. 7th Swiss Proteomics Society Congress (SPS07: Pushing the limits), 3rd-5th December, 2007: Presented a poster entitled “Mitpred 2.0: An Improved Method of Mitochondrial Protein Prediction”.
7. 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics 18th-20th December 2006. Presented a poster on “Kernel based machine learning (SVM) for predicting cyclins”.
8. South East Asian Training Course on Bioinformatics Applied to Tropical Diseases 28th September 2004–11th October 2004 conducted by WHO, at International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi.
9. Participated in 91st session of Indian Science Congress Association which was held on January 3rd-7th 2004 at Punjab University and Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh.
Administrative Responsibilites
1. Resident Tutor of Saramati PG Men’s Hostel, University of Delhi South Campus (09 July 2010 to till date).
2. Member of Departmental Research Committee of Department of Biophysics, University of Delhi South Campus (01-June-2010 to till date).
3. Member of Board of Research, Faculty of Inter-disciplinary and Applied Sciences (25-Sept-2013 to 24-Sept-2015).
4. Member of Faculty of Inter-disciplinary and Applied Sciences (04-April-2014 to 03-April-2017).
5. Member of Grievance Redressal Cell of South Campus Students Union Election 2014-15.
6. Member of NAAC peer review team of South Campus, Delhi University.
