About Me

I graduated with a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Minnesota. I worked with Professor Vipin Kumar and the focus of my thesis research was in the area of machine learning and data mining and their novel applications in medical and bioinformatics. During the course of my PhD dissertation research, I also worked closely with Dr Piet C. de Groen (Mayo Clinic, Rochester) and Professor Rui Kuang (CS, UMN).

I am broadly interested in developing novel data mining techniques to analyze the enormous amounts of data that is being generated in the form of individual clinical, genomic and genetic information. This will help discover human interpretable knowledge and shed light on the inner-biology of the complex diseases. Specifically, the idea is to discover important, unknown and statistically significant associations between various clinical/genomic factors (clinical variables, genes, SNPs etc) and disease phenotypes (diagnosis, prognosis, therapeutic responses, complications etc), which in turn can potentially play an important role in making personalized medicine a reality.

I have also worked with Professor Efi Foufoula-Georgiou in St. Anthony's Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota and earned a Civil Engineering master's degree in 2004. During this time, I worked on a NASA funded project and developed a multi-scale estimation methodolody to optimally integrate multi-resolution precipitation data collected using radars and different sensors on NASA satellites in order to improve precipitation prediction.

Prior to this, I received Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in Civil Engineering in 2002 from the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee), India.