People
Principal Investigator
PhD Students
Nikhil Chivukula
BS-MS Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (2021)
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2021)
Publications
Priyotosh Sil
M.Sc. Mathematics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan (2021)
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2021)
Publications
Shanmuga Priya B
M.Tech. Computational Biology, Anna University, Chennai (2021)
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2021)
Publications
Madhumita Mondal
M.Sc. Mathematics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan (2021)
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2022)
Publications
Shreyes Rajan Madgaonkar
M.Sc. Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune (2021)
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2022)
Publications
Rahul Tiwari
B.Tech. Biotechnology, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow (2024)
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program (2024)
PublicationsPast PhD Students
Janani R
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program
(2016 – 2022),
PhD awarded in June 2022
Awarded HBNI Outstanding Doctoral Students Award 2023 in Life Sciences
Next Position: Research Data Scientist, Novo Nordisk
RP Vivek Ananth
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program
(2016 – 2022),
PhD awarded in November 2022
Next Position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Nathan Price
Thorne Research, USA
Ajay Subbaroyan
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program
(2019 – 2024),
PhD awarded in July 2024
Next Position: Postdoctoral Fellow,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Ajaya Kumar Sahoo
IMSc Computational Biology PhD Program
(2019 – 2024),
PhD awarded in December 2024
Awarded HBNI Outstanding Doctoral Students Award 2025 in Life Sciences
Next Position: Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of Seoul, South Korea
Project Staff
Shrish Vashisth
January 2025 – Present
M.Sc. Environmental Sciences, Amity University, Delhi (2020)
Camelia Guha
November 2025 – Present
M.Sc. Biochemistry, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur (2025)
Masters Students
Jaisubasri Karthikeyan
December 2025 – Present
M.Sc. Integrated Data Science, PSG College of Technology
Harshini T S
January 2026 – Present
M.Sc. Integrated Data Science, PSG College of Technology
Student Awards and Honors
Shreyes Rajan Madgaonkar was awarded the Best Poster Award under the theme "Ocean Health" at the World Ocean Science Congress (WOSC) - 2026, February 23–26, 2026, CSIR-NIO, Goa, India.
Ajaya Kumar Sahoo was awarded the HBNI Outstanding Doctoral Student Award 2025 in Life Sciences for his PhD research.
Priyotosh Sil received a Flash Talk Award at the 47th Indian Biophysical Society Meeting (IBS 2025), March 6–9, 2025, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
Shreyes Rajan Madgaonkar was awarded the Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Microplastic Research Innovation & Sustainable Management, February 15–16, 2025, IISER Kolkata, India.
Priyotosh Sil received a Travel Award to attend the European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB), July 22–26, 2024, Toledo, Spain.
Priyotosh Sil was awarded the Raman–Charpak Fellowship by Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA) to visit Université Paris-Saclay, France, for three months.
Shanmuga Priya B was awarded the Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Bioinformatics in Health and Food Security, February 14–16, 2024, Pondicherry University, India.
Nikhil Chivukula was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 17th Annual International Biocuration Conference 2024, March 5–8, 2024, Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, India.
Janani R was awarded the HBNI Outstanding Doctoral Student Award 2023 in Life Sciences for her PhD research.
Vivek Ananth RP was granted the O-1A Visa (Individuals with Extraordinary Ability in Sciences) by the United States of America to conduct postdoctoral research at Thorne Research, New York.
Yasharth Yadav was awarded the Best Poster Award at the Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD 2022), December 15–18, 2022, IISER Pune, India, including a €200 cash prize and an invitation to publish an open-access article in Europhysics Letters.
Ajaya Kumar Sahoo was awarded the Best Poster Award at the HBNI Theme Meeting on Life Sciences, September 7–10, 2022, RRCAT, Indore, India.
BS Karthikeyan was awarded the Best Poster Award at the Society of Biological Chemists (India) Conference (SBCI-2019), October 31 – November 3, 2019, BARC, Mumbai, India.
BS Karthikeyan received the Second Prize in the theme Swasth Bharat at the Young Scientists Conference, India International Science Festival (IISF-2019), November 5–8, 2019, Kolkata, India.
M. Karthikeyan was accepted into the Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB), Germany.
K. Harish was accepted into the PhD program in Mathematics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA.
Past Postdoctral Fellows
Pritam Kundu (PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur)
Sreejanani Sankar (PhD, University of Madras, Chennai)
BS Karthikeyan (PhD, Bharathidasan University, Trichy)
K Deyasi (PhD, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata)
Previous Project Staff
Previous Masters or Bachelors Thesis Students
(BS-MS Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati)
(BS-MS Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali)
(BS-MS Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune)
(M.Tech. Computational Biology, Anna University, Chennai)
(M.Tech. Computational Biology, Anna University, Chennai)
(PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore)
(PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore)
(B.Tech. Biotechnology, Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chennai)
(B.Tech. Biotechnology, Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chennai)
(M.Sc. (H) Biological Science and B.E. (H) Computer Science, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad)
(B.Tech. Bioinformatics, SASTRA, India)
(B.Tech. ICT, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar)
(B.Tech. Pharmaceutical Technology, Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai)
(M.Sc Computational Biology, University of Kerala, India)
(M.Tech., Bharathidasan University, India)
(B.Tech., SASTRA, India)
(M.Tech., Bharathidasan University, India)
(B.Tech., Bharathidasan University, India)
(Univeristy of Kerala, India)
(PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore)
(Anna University, Chennai)
(Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore)
(Tamil Nadu Agricultural Univeristy, Coimbatore)
(Anna University, Chennai)
(Central University of South Bihar, Gaya)
Previous Interns
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
(SASTRA)
(Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine)
(BITS Pilani)
(Stella Maris College)
(Stella Maris College)
(Stella Maris College)
(Stella Maris College)
(Anna University)
(IIT Madras)
(IIT Madras)
(IIT Madras)
(NIT Trichy)