Group Members

If you are an IISER Pune student wanting to do a semester project, please write to me at least two weeks before the semester begins. Spots get filled up quickly.

Leelavati Narlikar

Associate Professor

  • PhD (Computer Science), Duke University
  • BE (Computer Engineering), University of Pune

Leelavati is interested in computational biology and machine learning.

Samarth Herur

Project Associate

  • BS-MS (Biological Sciences), IISER Pune

Samarth is trying to characterise the contribution of DNA sequence in the formation and stabilization of topologically associated domains (TADs).

Nachiket Dravid

India AI PhD fellow

  • MSc (Data Science), Chennai Mathematical Institute
  • BSc (Statistics), Fergusson College

Nachiket is developing statistical algorithms for clustering large datasets.

Ananya Jhala

BTech intern

  • ACM Uplink 2025 summer intern

Ananya is working on models to predict the insulation potential of genomic regions.


Alumni

Gaurik Mukherjee
Project Associate at IMSc Chennai

Anushua Biswas
Scientist at Velsera

Samarth Pardhi
Research Associate at IIM Bangalore

Dinesh P R
Graduate student at University of Alamaba

Indrani Madhugiri
Graduate student at CSIR-NCL

Alumni (from CSIR-NCL)

Arkava Ganguly
Graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder

Amardeep Singh
Graduate student at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Bhagyashree Hote
Persistent Systems

Chetna Beri
Graduate student at UIUC

Pooja Kumbhar

Shubhada Kulkarni
Postdoctoral researcher at German Cancer Research Center

Sneha Mitra
Graduate student at Duke University

Sucheta Gokhale
Scientist at Tata Chemicals