Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

NameDuration at LabCurrent Position
Baishakhi TikaderIoE Postdoctoral Fellow
(Dec 2023 – Dec 2024)		Postdoctoral Fellow, IISc
Ushasi RoyC V Raman Postdoctoral Fellow
(Dec 2020 – Dec 2022)		INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
(Physics, IISER Pune)
Mubasher RashidSERB – National Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Feb 2021 – Feb 2022)		INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
(Mathematics, IIT Kanpur)
Saurav KumarApr 2019 – Feb 2020Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sagar VarankarAug 2019 – Dec 2019Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Doctoral Students

NameDuration at LabCurrent Position
Atchuta Srinivas DudduAug 2019 – July 2024Scientist II, Vantage Research
Kishore HariAug 2018 – Oct 2023Postdoctoral Fellow, Northeastern University
Subbalakshmi A RJan 2019 – Sep 2023Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope

BS/MS/M. Tech. – Thesis Students

NameDuration at LabCurrent Position
Souvik Guha2025MS (Biophysics), University College London
Vikas Kumar2025Pre-doctoral fellow, IIT Roorkee
Nainika Gupta2025MS (Precision Health), University of Chicago
Kushal Haldar2024 – 25PhD (Quantitative Biology), University of Bonn
Anjaney Pandey2024 – 25Research Scientist, NCBS
Neeraj Dhandia2024 – 25Applied Data Scientist, Motive
Mohith Talluri2024 – 25R&D Scientist, Dognosis
Amruth Bhat2023 – 24PhD (Bioengineering), IISc Bangalore
Hanuma Sai2023 – 24PhD (Neuroscience), IISc Bangalore
Lakshmi Malvadi2023 – 24PhD (Physics), University of California Merced
Sai Shyam2023 – 24PhD (Biomedical Sciences), University of Michigan
Raj Paresh Mehta2022 – 23Machine Learning Engineer, Discovery Partners Institute
Tanisha Malpani2022 – 23PhD, University of Helsinki
Suranjana Takoe2022 – 23Trainee, MetFlux Pvt. Ltd.
Sharaj K2021 – 22PhD (Network Science), Northeastern University
Shrihar Kanikar2021 – 22Research Assistant, Heidelberg University
Sankalpa V2022MS (Bioengineering), Stanford University
Soumodeep Sarkar2022MS (Cell Biology), LMU Munich
Ritoja Ray2022PhD (Cell Biology), University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Srinath Muralidharan2020 – 22PhD (Cancer Biology), MD Anderson Cancer Center
Aditi Pujar2020 – 22PhD (Biophysics), UT Austin
Lakshya Chauhan2020 – 22MS (Evolutionary Biology), Erasmus Mundus
Divyoj Singh2019 – 22PhD (Biophysics), University of California Santa Barbara
Maalavika Pillai2019 – 22PhD (Quantitative Biology), Northwestern University
Aditi Gopalan2020 – 21Bioinformatics Engineer, Sage Bionetworks
Varun U2020 – 21PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Project Assistants

NameDuration at LabCurrent Position
Nikhil Nandhan SAug 2023 – May 2024M. Tech. (BSBE), IIT Bombay
Manas SehgalAug 2022 – Aug 2023 MS, University of Heidelberg
Yeshwanth MMar 2022 – Aug 2023 PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Srinath MuralidharanJan 2022 – Jun 2022PhD, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Joel Markus VazDec 2021 – Jul 2022MS (Bioinformatics), Georgia Tech
Susmita MandalApr 2020 – Oct 2022PhD, Charite University Berlin
Harsimran KaurAug 2020 – Jul 2021PhD, Vanderbilt University
Priyanka ChakrabortyMay 2019 – Jan 2021Senior Data Scientist,
Happiest Minds Technologies
Kritika SaxenaMar 2019 – Jun 2020PhD, University of Konstanz

Undergraduate Students

NameDuration at LabCurrent Position
Anshita Sharma2025BS-MS, IISER Pune
Meghana Sangle2025BS-MS, IISER Mohali
Govind Nair2025BS-MS, IISER Pune
Hiranmayi R2025BS-MS, IISER Mohali
Rohan Ghosh Dastidar2025BT-MT (Chemical Engineering), IIT Kharagpur
Aditya Agrawal2024 – 25BT-MT (Biomedical Engineering), IIT BHU
Vaibhav Anand2023 – 24BS-MS, IISER Pune
Abhinav Kannan2023 – 24BS-MS, IISER Pune
Yasvita Subramanian2024BS-MS, IISER Pune
Yukta Subramanian2024BS-MS, IISc Bangalore
Sachin Iyer2023Associate, Dvara Health Finance
Kaushal Grover2023Data Engineer, Remitz
Soham Karandikar2023MS (Molecular BioSciences), Heidelberg University
Aishwarya G2023MS, Heidelberg University
Vivek Raj Singh2023MS student, Erasmus Mundus BIOPHAM
Aashna Saxena2023PhD, University of Miami
Yogheshwer Raja2022 – 23PhD (Biomedical Sciences), UT Southwestern Medical Center
Vedant Sharma2022 – 23MS (Applied Mathematics), University of Alberta
Vinishaa Sree2022 – 23PhD, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Saloni Gole2022PhD, Francis Crick Institute
Shaurya Goyal2022MS (Computational Neuroscience), ENS-PSL
Gaurav Awasthi2022PhD (Chemical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arth Banka2022MS (Computational Biology), Carnegie Mellon University
Suhana Nujum2022Data Scientist, Anumana
Rishabh Goyal2022Market Analyst, Axxela
Mallika Prabhakar2022PhD student (Computer Science) , NUS Singapore
Ashwini Singh2022PhD (Developmental Biology & Genetics) , IISc Bangalore
Abhay Gupta2022PhD student, University of Virginia
Madhav Nair2022 – 24PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Texas A&M University
Ramanarayanan K2022 – 24PhD (Quantitative Biology), University of California San Diego
Sharon Kartika2022PhD (Quantitative Biosciences), Georgia Tech
Vikram Chavare2022MS (Bioengineering), Rice University
Shashank Katiyar2022Computational Biologist, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harini Subramaniam2022Research Associate, Yale University
Arpita Guha Neogi2022Data Consultant, Washington State University
Meenakshi S Pillai2022Computational Biologist, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Aathira Sarath Chandran2022MS, University of California San Diego
Vignesh AK2022PhD (Biological Sciences), Nanyang Technological University
Anish Shripad Hebbar2021 – 22PhD (Computer Science), Duke University
Nilay Agarwal2021 – 22PhD (Neuroscience), University of Texas At Austin
Archana Balasubramaniam2021 – 22Bioinformatics Associate, Zymo Research
Prakruthi Manjunatha2021 – 22MS, University of Michigan
Sri Gouri Rajaram2021 – 22Research Associate, New York University
Sudhanva KV2021PhD (Biophysics), University of Chicago
Yash Mundewadi2021PhD (Quantitative Biology), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Akash Kishore2021PhD (Computational Biology), CMU-University of Pittsburgh
Sonali Priyadarshini Nayak2021PhD (Chemistry), Boston University
Bazella Ashraf2021PhD (Biomedical Sciences), Nebraska University
Ashutosh Mishra2021PhD (Physics), Forschungszentrum Jülich
Abhay Singh2021PhD, ETH Zurich
Aditya N Saxena2021 Senior Data Scientist, MakeMyTrip
Sanjay Chandran2021Machine learning Scientist, PayPal
Ankita Ray2021Frontend Developer, DCART Logistics
Aryamaan Saha2021MS (Computer Science), Columbia University
Satwik Pasani2021PhD (Computational Neuroscience), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Mohammed Adil Ibrahim2021PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Cornell University
John Thampi2021Visiting Student, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Pradipti Thakur2021Analyst, JP Morgan Chase
Nived Krishnan2021Scientist, Clarity Bio Systems
Navin Vincent2020 – 21PhD (Artificial Intelligence), Karolinska Institute
Gubbala Uday Ram2020 – 21PhD, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Rohini Janivara2020 – 21PhD (Bioinformatics), Georgia Tech
Souvadra Hati2020 – 21PhD (Computational Science), Georgia Tech
Neha Swaminathan2020PhD (Molecular Engineering), University of Chicago
Tamoghna Das2020PhD (Chemical Engineering), Loughborough University
Syamanthak Srikrishnan2020MS (Life Sciences), TU Delft
Burhanuddin Sabuwala2019 – 21PhD (Computational Biology), Yale University
Rashi Jain2019 – 21Research Associate, Yale University
Abheepsa Nanda2019 – 21MS (Environmental Sciences), ETH Zurich
Tanishq Tejaswi2019 – 21PhD, Aix-Marseille University
Ankush Moger2019 – 21MS (Applied Maths), University of Washington
Balaram Vishnu2019BS-MS, IISER Trivandrum