Research

Research Interests

  • Disease Network Modeling
    • Integrative Analytical Approach for Heterogeneous Genomic Data sets for modeling Complex Diseases
  • Cancer Genomics
    • Studying cancer metastasis through integrative computational approaches
    • Exploratory data analysis techniques for predicting genetic and epigenetic markers in cancers
    • Tissue specific expression patterns and cell-type specific methylation patterns in cancers
  • Population Genetics
    • Evolutionary history of human population
    • Selection in humans
    • Application of phylogenetic methods in population genetics
  • Phylogenetics
    • Gene trees, species trees reconstruction
  • Computational Systems Biology
    • Stem cell differentiation
    • Transcription factor (TF) binding mechanics

Research Experience

  • Computational Techniques in Cancer Genomics
    • currently developing exploratory data analysis techniques for finding genetic and epigenetic markers in primary and metastatic cancer
  • Study of Shared Pathophysiology of ASD an.d Its Co-morbid Diseases
    • developed a novel three-tiered meta-analysis pipeline to uncover shared pathways among ASD and its co-occurring diseases.
  • Integrative Analysis of Heterogeneous Genomic Datasets for Explaining Genetic Etiology of ASDs
    • developed computational method for integrating data from different sources onto functional networks to facilitate discovery of causal genes and dys-regulated pathways of interest in ASDs.
  • Integrative Gene Expression Analysis of PCOS
    • developed a meta analysis pipeline for studying expression data across multiple platforms to identify significant pathways in PCOS.
  • Study of Functional Genomic Evidence in Positively Selected Human Genome
    • studied different functional markers in positively selected regions in 1000 genomes data.
  • Study of Transcription Factor Binding Dynamics during Hematopoetic Stem Cell Differentiation
    • studied the binding events of Gata1, Gata2, and Smad1 over 13 different timepoints during hematopetic stem cell differentiation.
    • analyzed differential binding and co-binding of Gata1, Gata2, and Smad1.
  • Study of the Demographic Relationships of Human Population
    • applied a quartet-based approach for inferring demographic relationships of minimally admixed human populations.
    • developed two different pipelines using phylogenetic tree and network construction algorithms in the context of population genetics.
  • String Inference Algorithms
    • studied the problem of string inference for both regular and indeterminate strings.
    • proposed two solutions for the open problem of linear time string inference from cover array using binary alphabet.
    • extended the classical string inference problem to indeterminate string inference from border arrays and suffix and LCP arrays and devised three novel and efficient algorithms.
  • Protein Folding in 2D Lattice Models
    • surveyed all the approximation algorithms for protein folding in 2D and 3D lattice models.
    • proposed an octagonal 2D lattice model for protein representation.