To prepare students to develop an algorithmic thinking to address key data science challenges in bioinformatics, to acquire knowledge of various problem formulations and algorithm paradigms, which have transformed the field of biomedicine in modern times, to obtain insights into many key bioinformatics algorithms on strings, trees, and graphs, many of which can be applied to other areas as well.
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Associate Professor , Department of Computer Science & Engineering , IIT Madras
Dr. Manikandan Narayanan, who has joined the Department faculty on January 1, 2018 as an Associate Professor. He received his MS and PhD (2007) from UC Berkeley and his B.E. from CEG, Anna Univ. Until December 2017, he was with NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
His research interests are in: Bioinformatics, Computational network biology, Systems biology/genomics in health and disease, Data science.