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Research Internship

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

Working under the supervision of Dr. Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, identifying and analyzing the role of novel lncRNAs in compatible and incompatible pollination responses, and performing RNA-seq data analysis using a computational workflow on the Galaxy server for quality control, transcript assembly, coding potential, and differential expression analysis.

• Plant Biotechnology
• Bioinformatics
• Computational Biology

Undergraduate Project

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Working on a project under the supervision of Dr. Nitin Gupta, designing primers and performing PCR to identify off-target CRISPR-Cas9 insertions in a transgenic Aedes aegypti line with sex-ratio distortion, and analyzing transcription factor binding sites, focusing on the doublesex (dsx) protein and its role in sexual differentiation.

• Bioinformatics
• Transgenics

Research Internship

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

During the research internship at IIT Gandhinagar with Dr. Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, I conducted research work to distinguish inter- and intra-species variants of Bougainvillea, Plumeria and Dianthus species using DNA barcoding based molecular profiling, which eventually led to a first-author publication

• Plant Biotechnology

Bachelor of Technology

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India

Biological Sciences and Bioengineering [GPA: 8.3/10]

Biobytes: Computational methods in Biology

Led a team of 15 mentees to apply machine learning techniques for analyzing biological datasets, including DNA sequence classification using k-mer approaches and BioPython, and drug discovery predictions using CHEMBL bioactivity data and ML models like Random Forest and KNN.

• Drug Discovery
• Machine Learning

Introduction to Machine Learning

Developed expertise in exploratory data analysis, cross-validation, and XGBoost for model optimization, implemented text preprocessing for Twitter Sentiment Analysis using NLTK, and applied CNN models with PCA and clustering for biodiversity species classification on 25,000 animal images.

• Feature Engineering
• Data analysis

Formula Bharat 2024 | Business Presentation & Pitch Deck | Team IITK Motorsports

Representing IITKMS in Formula Bharat ’24 by presenting a detailed racing car business model, including cost analysis, target markets, and supply chain optimization; advanced to stage 2 with a 60-second pitch and 10-minute business model presentation.

• Supply chain management
• Business model prototype