Biography

I received my Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Jadavpur University and my M.S. and Ph.D from Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. As a graduate student at Tulane, I received several awards including the prestigious Sigma Xi research award. I worked as Senior Process Engineer for Process Services Inc., Baton Rouge and as Executive Engineer for L&T, Powai, Mumbai, before joining IIT Delhi. My current research interest is in the area of Systems and Network Biology. We apply mathematical and computational methods to study disease networks, understand disease progression and determine new drug targets, followed by directed experiments. My group is interested in neurodegenerative diseases, virus-host interaction networks and gene regulatory networks. The results of our work on several ALS genes gives a cohesive and comprehensive picture of the molecular mechanisms causing ALS due to mutations in Indian patients. I am also interested in emergent properties arising in complex systems,  and the mind and consciousness problem