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Postdoctoral Fellows<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>Duration at Lab<\/strong><\/td>Current Position<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Baishakhi Tikader<\/a><\/td>IoE Postdoctoral Fellow
(Dec 2023 \u2013 Dec 2024)<\/td>		Postdoctoral Fellow, IISc<\/td><\/tr>
Ushasi Roy<\/a><\/td>C V Raman Postdoctoral Fellow
(Dec 2020 \u2013 Dec 2022)<\/td>		INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
(Physics, IISER Pune)<\/td><\/tr>
Mubasher Rashid<\/a><\/td>SERB \u2013 National Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Feb 2021 \u2013 Feb 2022)<\/td>		INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
(Mathematics, IIT Kanpur)<\/td><\/tr>
Saurav Kumar<\/a><\/td>Apr 2019 \u2013 Feb 2020<\/td>Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center<\/td><\/tr>
Sagar Varankar<\/a><\/td>Aug 2019 \u2013 Dec 2019<\/td>Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Doctoral Students<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>Duration at Lab<\/strong><\/td>Current Position<\/strong><\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Atchuta Srinivas Duddu<\/a><\/td>Aug 2019 \u2013 July 2024<\/td>Scientist II, Vantage Research<\/td><\/tr>
Kishore Hari<\/a><\/td>Aug 2018 \u2013 Oct 2023<\/td>Postdoctoral Fellow, Northeastern University<\/td><\/tr>
Subbalakshmi A R<\/a><\/td>Jan 2019 \u2013 Sep 2023<\/td>Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BS\/MS\/M. Tech. \u2013 Thesis Students<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>Duration at Lab<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>Current Position<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Souvik Guha<\/a><\/td>2025<\/td>MS (Biophysics), University College London<\/td><\/tr>
Vikas Kumar<\/a><\/td>2025<\/td>Pre-doctoral fellow, IIT Roorkee<\/td><\/tr>
Nainika Gupta<\/a><\/td>2025<\/td>MS (Precision Health), University of Chicago<\/td><\/tr>
Kushal Haldar<\/a><\/td>2024 \u2013 25<\/td>PhD (Quantitative Biology), University of Bonn<\/td><\/tr>
Anjaney Pandey<\/a><\/td>2024 \u2013 25<\/td>Research Scientist, NCBS<\/td><\/tr>
Neeraj Dhandia<\/a><\/td>2024 \u2013 25<\/td>Applied Data Scientist, Motive<\/td><\/tr>
Mohith Talluri<\/a><\/td>2024 \u2013 25<\/td>R&D Scientist, Dognosis<\/td><\/tr>
Amruth Bhat<\/a><\/td>2023 \u2013 24<\/td>PhD (Bioengineering), IISc Bangalore<\/td><\/tr>
Hanuma Sai<\/a><\/td>2023 \u2013 24<\/td>PhD (Neuroscience), IISc Bangalore<\/td><\/tr>
Lakshmi Malvadi<\/a><\/td>2023 \u2013 24<\/td>PhD (Physics), University of California Merced<\/td><\/tr>
Sai Shyam<\/a><\/td>2023 \u2013 24<\/td>PhD (Biomedical Sciences), University of Michigan<\/td><\/tr>
Raj Paresh Mehta<\/a><\/td>2022 \u2013 23<\/td>Machine Learning Engineer, Discovery Partners Institute<\/td><\/tr>
Tanisha Malpani<\/a><\/td>2022 \u2013 23<\/td>PhD, University of Helsinki<\/td><\/tr>
Suranjana Takoe<\/a><\/td>2022 \u2013 23<\/td>Trainee, MetFlux Pvt. Ltd.<\/td><\/tr>
Sharaj K<\/a><\/td>2021 \u2013 22<\/td>PhD (Network Science), Northeastern University<\/td><\/tr>
Shrihar Kanikar<\/td>2021 \u2013 22<\/td>Research Assistant, Heidelberg University<\/td><\/tr>
Sankalpa V<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>MS (Bioengineering), Stanford University<\/td><\/tr>
Soumodeep Sarkar<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>MS (Cell Biology), LMU Munich<\/td><\/tr>
Ritoja Ray<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>PhD (Cell Biology), University of Illinois Urbana Champaign<\/td><\/tr>
Srinath Muralidharan<\/a><\/td>2020 \u2013 22<\/td>PhD (Cancer Biology), MD Anderson Cancer Center<\/td><\/tr>
Aditi Pujar<\/a><\/td>2020 \u2013 22<\/td>PhD (Biophysics), UT Austin<\/td><\/tr>
Lakshya Chauhan<\/a><\/td>2020 \u2013 22<\/td>MS (Evolutionary Biology), Erasmus Mundus<\/td><\/tr>
Divyoj Singh<\/a><\/td>2019 \u2013 22<\/td>PhD (Biophysics), University of California Santa Barbara<\/td><\/tr>
Maalavika Pillai<\/a><\/td>2019 \u2013 22<\/td>PhD (Quantitative Biology), Northwestern University<\/td><\/tr>
Aditi Gopalan<\/a><\/td>2020 \u2013 21<\/td>Bioinformatics Engineer, Sage Bionetworks<\/td><\/tr>
Varun U<\/a><\/td>2020 \u2013 21<\/td>PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Project Assistants<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>Duration at Lab<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>Current Position<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Nikhil Nandhan S<\/a><\/td>Aug 2023 \u2013 May 2024<\/td>M. Tech. (BSBE), IIT Bombay<\/td><\/tr>
Manas Sehgal<\/a><\/td>Aug 2022 \u2013 Aug 2023 <\/td>MS, University of Heidelberg<\/td><\/tr>
Yeshwanth M<\/a><\/td>Mar 2022 \u2013 Aug 2023<\/td> PhD, University of Pennsylvania<\/td><\/tr>
Srinath Muralidharan<\/a><\/td>Jan 2022 \u2013 Jun 2022<\/td>PhD, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center<\/td><\/tr>
Joel Markus Vaz<\/a><\/td>Dec 2021 \u2013 Jul 2022<\/td>MS (Bioinformatics), Georgia Tech<\/td><\/tr>
Susmita Mandal<\/a><\/td>Apr 2020 \u2013 Oct 2022<\/td>PhD, Charite University Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
Harsimran Kaur<\/a><\/td>Aug 2020 \u2013 Jul 2021<\/td>PhD, Vanderbilt University<\/td><\/tr>
Priyanka Chakraborty<\/a><\/td>May 2019 \u2013 Jan 2021<\/td>Senior Data Scientist,
Happiest Minds Technologies<\/td><\/tr>
Kritika Saxena<\/a><\/td>Mar 2019 \u2013 Jun 2020<\/td>PhD, University of Konstanz<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Undergraduate Students<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>Duration at Lab<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>Current Position<\/strong><\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Anshita Sharma<\/td>2025<\/td>BS-MS, IISER Pune<\/td><\/tr>
Meghana Sangle<\/td>2025<\/td>BS-MS, IISER Mohali<\/td><\/tr>
Govind Nair<\/td>2025<\/td>BS-MS, IISER Pune<\/td><\/tr>
Hiranmayi R<\/a><\/td>2025<\/td>BS-MS, IISER Mohali<\/td><\/tr>
Rohan Ghosh Dastidar<\/a><\/td>2025<\/td>BT-MT (Chemical Engineering), IIT Kharagpur<\/td><\/tr>
Aditya Agrawal<\/td>2024 \u2013 25<\/td>BT-MT (Biomedical Engineering), IIT BHU<\/td><\/tr>
Vaibhav Anand<\/a><\/td>2023 \u2013 24<\/td>BS-MS, IISER Pune<\/td><\/tr>
Abhinav Kannan<\/td>2023 \u2013 24<\/td>BS-MS, IISER Pune<\/td><\/tr>
Yasvita Subramanian<\/td>2024<\/td>BS-MS, IISER Pune<\/td><\/tr>
Yukta Subramanian<\/td>2024<\/td>BS-MS, IISc Bangalore<\/td><\/tr>
Sachin Iyer<\/td>2023<\/td>Associate, Dvara Health Finance<\/td><\/tr>
Kaushal Grover<\/a><\/td>2023<\/td>Data Engineer, Remitz<\/td><\/tr>
Soham Karandikar<\/a><\/td>2023<\/td>MS (Molecular BioSciences), Heidelberg University<\/td><\/tr>
Aishwarya G<\/td>2023<\/td>MS, Heidelberg University<\/td><\/tr>
Vivek Raj Singh<\/a><\/td>2023<\/td>MS student, Erasmus Mundus BIOPHAM<\/td><\/tr>
Aashna Saxena<\/a><\/td>2023<\/td>PhD, University of Miami<\/td><\/tr>
Yogheshwer Raja<\/a><\/td>2022 \u2013 23<\/td>PhD (Biomedical Sciences), UT Southwestern Medical Center<\/td><\/tr>
Vedant Sharma<\/a><\/td>2022 \u2013 23<\/td>MS (Applied Mathematics), University of Alberta<\/td><\/tr>
Vinishaa Sree<\/a><\/td>2022 \u2013 23<\/td>PhD, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign<\/td><\/tr>
Saloni Gole<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>PhD, Francis Crick Institute<\/td><\/tr>
Shaurya Goyal<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>MS (Computational Neuroscience), ENS-PSL<\/td><\/tr>
Gaurav Awasthi<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>PhD (Chemical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/td><\/tr>
Arth Banka<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>MS (Computational Biology), Carnegie Mellon University<\/td><\/tr>
Suhana Nujum<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>Data Scientist, Anumana<\/td><\/tr>
Rishabh Goyal<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>Market Analyst, Axxela<\/td><\/tr>
Mallika Prabhakar<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>PhD student (Computer Science) , NUS Singapore<\/td><\/tr>
Ashwini Singh<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>PhD (Developmental Biology & Genetics) , IISc Bangalore<\/td><\/tr>
Abhay Gupta<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>PhD student, University of Virginia<\/td><\/tr>
Madhav Nair<\/a><\/td>2022 \u2013 24<\/td>PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Texas A&M University<\/td><\/tr>
Ramanarayanan K<\/td>2022 \u2013 24<\/td>PhD (Quantitative Biology), University of California San Diego<\/td><\/tr>
Sharon Kartika<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>PhD (Quantitative Biosciences), Georgia Tech<\/td><\/tr>
Vikram Chavare<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>MS (Bioengineering), Rice University<\/td><\/tr>
Shashank Katiyar<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>Computational Biologist, Dana Farber Cancer Institute<\/td><\/tr>
Harini Subramaniam<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>Research Associate, Yale University<\/td><\/tr>
Arpita Guha Neogi<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>Data Consultant, Washington State University<\/td><\/tr>
Meenakshi S Pillai<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>Computational Biologist, Dana Farber Cancer Institute<\/td><\/tr>
Aathira Sarath Chandran<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>MS, University of California San Diego<\/td><\/tr>
Vignesh AK<\/a><\/td>2022<\/td>PhD (Biological Sciences), Nanyang Technological University<\/td><\/tr>
Anish Shripad Hebbar<\/a><\/td>2021 \u2013 22<\/td>PhD (Computer Science), Duke University<\/td><\/tr>
Nilay Agarwal<\/a><\/td>2021 \u2013 22<\/td>PhD (Neuroscience), University of Texas At Austin<\/td><\/tr>
Archana Balasubramaniam<\/a><\/td>2021 \u2013 22<\/td>Bioinformatics Associate, Zymo Research<\/td><\/tr>
Prakruthi Manjunatha<\/a><\/td>2021 \u2013 22<\/td>MS, University of Michigan<\/td><\/tr>
Sri Gouri Rajaram<\/a><\/td>2021 \u2013 22<\/td>Research Associate, New York University<\/td><\/tr>
Sudhanva KV<\/td>2021<\/td>PhD (Biophysics), University of Chicago<\/td><\/tr>
Yash Mundewadi<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>PhD (Quantitative Biology), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory<\/td><\/tr>
Akash Kishore<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>PhD (Computational Biology), CMU-University of Pittsburgh<\/td><\/tr>
So<\/a>nali Priyadarshini Nayak<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>PhD (Chemistry), Boston University<\/td><\/tr>
Bazella Ashraf<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>PhD (Biomedical Sciences), Nebraska University<\/td><\/tr>
Ashutosh Mishra<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>PhD (Physics), Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich<\/td><\/tr>
Abhay Singh<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>PhD, ETH Zurich<\/td><\/tr>
Aditya N Saxena<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td> Senior Data Scientist, MakeMyTrip<\/td><\/tr>
Sanjay Chandran<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>Machine learning Scientist, PayPal<\/td><\/tr>
Ankita Ray<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>Frontend Developer, DCART Logistics<\/td><\/tr>
Aryamaan Saha<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>MS (Computer Science), Columbia University<\/td><\/tr>
Satwik Pasani<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>PhD (Computational Neuroscience), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory<\/td><\/tr>
Mohammed Adil Ibrahim<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Cornell University<\/td><\/tr>
John Thampi<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>Visiting Student, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research<\/td><\/tr>
Pradipti Thakur<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>Analyst, JP Morgan Chase<\/td><\/tr>
Nived Krishnan<\/a><\/td>2021<\/td>Scientist, Clarity Bio Systems<\/td><\/tr>
Navin Vincent<\/a><\/td>2020 \u2013 21<\/td>PhD (Artificial Intelligence), Karolinska Institute<\/td><\/tr>
Gubbala Uday Ram<\/a><\/td>2020 \u2013 21<\/td>PhD, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria<\/td><\/tr>
Rohini Janivara<\/a><\/td>2020 \u2013 21<\/td>PhD (Bioinformatics), Georgia Tech<\/td><\/tr>
Souvadra Hati<\/a><\/td>2020 \u2013 21<\/td>PhD (Computational Science), Georgia Tech<\/td><\/tr>
Neha Swaminathan<\/a><\/td>2020<\/td>PhD (Molecular Engineering), University of Chicago<\/td><\/tr>
Tamoghna Das<\/a><\/td>2020<\/td>PhD (Chemical Engineering), Loughborough University<\/td><\/tr>
<\/a>Syamanthak Srikrishnan<\/a><\/td>2020<\/td>MS (Life Sciences), TU Delft<\/td><\/tr>
Burhanuddin Sabuwala<\/a><\/td>2019 \u2013 21<\/td>PhD (Computational Biology), Yale University<\/td><\/tr>
Rashi Jain<\/td>2019 \u2013 21<\/td>Research Associate, Yale University<\/td><\/tr>
Abheepsa Nanda<\/a><\/td>2019 \u2013 21<\/td>MS (Environmental Sciences), ETH Zurich<\/td><\/tr>
Tanishq Tejaswi<\/a><\/td>2019 \u2013 21<\/td>PhD, Aix-Marseille University<\/td><\/tr>
Ankush Moger<\/a><\/td>2019 \u2013 21<\/td>MS (Applied Maths), University of Washington<\/td><\/tr>
Balaram Vishnu<\/a><\/td>2019<\/td>Chief Data Officer, Thamani Healthcare<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Postdoctoral Fellows Name Duration at Lab Current Position Baishakhi Tikader IoE Postdoctoral Fellow (Dec 2023 \u2013 Dec 2024) Postdoctoral Fellow, IISc Ushasi Roy C V Raman Postdoctoral Fellow(Dec 2020 \u2013 Dec 2022) INSPIRE Faculty Fellow(Physics, IISER Pune) Mubasher Rashid SERB \u2013 National Post-Doctoral Fellow(Feb 2021 \u2013 Feb 2022) INSPIRE Faculty Fellow (Mathematics, IIT Kanpur) SauravContinue reading “Alumni”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1312","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/be.iisc.ac.in\/~mkjolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/be.iisc.ac.in\/~mkjolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/be.iisc.ac.in\/~mkjolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/be.iisc.ac.in\/~mkjolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/be.iisc.ac.in\/~mkjolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/be.iisc.ac.in\/~mkjolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/be.iisc.ac.in\/~mkjolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1312\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/be.iisc.ac.in\/~mkjolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}