Education

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science (2012-2014)

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), affiliated to University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Honors) in Computer Science (2009-2012)

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), affiliated to University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Professional and Academic Experience

PhD student (January 2018 - present)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany.

Supervisor: Prof. Ian T. Baldwin
Dissertation topic: Using natural variation in Nicotiana attenuata to elucidate its defense response against herbivory.

Data Analyst and Research Assistant (September 2015 - January 2018)

National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India

Supervisor: Priyanka Pandey
Duties: Analysis of various sequencing data from different projects.

Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer (April 2015 - August 2017)

Icarus Informatics LLP, Kolkata, India

Master’s thesis (July 2013 - April 2014)

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous)

Supervisor: Sankar Das
Thesis title: Data Integration, Inference and Mining with Semantic Data Model.

Bachelor’s thesis (July 2011 - April 2012)

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous)

Supervisor: Asoke Nath, Kaushik Goswami
Thesis title: Design and Implementation of Cryptography and Steganography Systems.

Organization and Teaching Activities

Functional Assays are Not "Just-So" Stories, (November 2019)

Ecology Workshop co-organized with Ian T. Baldwin, Rayko Halitschke, and Dapeng Li, at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany.

Big Data Analysis in Biomedical Genomics, (March 2016)

Instructor for RNA-Seq analysis session. Workshop jointly organized by National Institute of Biomedical Genomics and University Of Chicago, at Kalyani, India

Advanced Research Training Workshop for North Eastern Region Scientists, (October 2019)

Instructor for RNA-Seq analysis session. Workshop organized by National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, at Kalyani, India.

Technical Skills

Programming languages

R, MATLAB, Python, Java, C, C++, Perl, HTML+JS+CSS

Database systems

MySQL, Oracle, SQLITE

Software technologies

Linux, Git, J2EE, LaTeX, Web Development, LAMP, WAMP

Bioinformatic pipelines

RNA-Seq, small RNA-Seq, Genome assembly and annotation, Variant Calling, QTL mapping/GWAS, Metabolome analysis

Lab skills

DNA/RNA isolation, PCR, metabolite extraction, NanoString DNA assay

Other Information

Languages known

Bengali - Mother tongue, English - Fluent (reading, writing, speaking), Hindi - Native language, Spanish - Basic (simple words and phrases only), German - Basic (simple words and phrases only).

Leadership roles

Class representative and member of Xaverian parliament at St. Xavier’s College Kolkata, in 2009 and 2011.
Open Science Ambassador from MPI-CE for the Open Science Ambassadors Program at MPG.