Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Trainings And Courses
Publications
References
Projects
Teaching Assistantship
Presentations
Hackathons & Competitions
Timeline
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Arnab Raha

Arnab Raha

Delhi

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi
New Delhi
01.2025 - Current
  • Foundations of Biology

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi
Delhi
03.2024 - Current
  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Data Science in Health and Climate Change for Social Impact

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi
Delhi
01.2023 - 05.2023
  • Introduction to Quantitative Biology

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi
Delhi
06.2022 - 12.2022
  • Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Education

Ph.D. - Computational Biology

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
Delhi, Delhi, India
06.2022

M.Tech - Computational Biology

Pondicherry University
Puducherry, India
06.2022

B. Tech - Biotechnology

SRM Institute of Science And Technology
Chennai, India
06.2019

Skills

  • Statistical data analysis
  • NGS Data Analysis
  • R
  • Python
  • Java
  • Perl
  • Molecular docking and simulation
  • Cell culture techniques
  • Machine learning
  • Deep learning Computer Vision

Accomplishments

  • GATB fellowship, 2020, GATB Score: 146.5, All India Rank: 127 (funding: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India)
  • GATE, 2021, GATE Score: 350 (MHRD, Government of India)

Trainings And Courses

  • Establishing and Sustaining Cloud Infrastructure for Informatics-based Healthcare, Hands-on Workshop, 03/2024, IIIT Delhi
  • Algorithms that transformed Molecular Biology, Workshop, 06/2023, IIIT Delhi
  • RNAseq - From Library Establishment to Data Analysis, Hands-on Workshop, 02/2022, Pondicherry University
  • International Conference cum Workshop on Translational Sciences in Drug Discovery and Development, Hands-on Workshop, 08/2021, Pondicherry University
  • Fundamentals of NGS analysis and Drug Discovery, Hands-on Workshop, 08/2021, Pondicherry University
  • Introduction to Artificial Neural Network and Deep Learning, Online Course, 06/2021, Udemy
  • Industrial Biotechnology, Online Course, 10/2018, Top 5% (NPTEL)
  • Quality Control and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products, Hands-on training, 06/2017, Jupiter Pharmaceuticals Ltd., West Bengal

Publications

  • Prabhu, K., Jayakumar, A., Sreelakshmi, K., Raha, A., Maitra, M., & Radha, P., Utilization of microbial oil produced from Pichia kudriavzevii NCIM 3653 using paper mill sludge as an alternative substrate for biodiesel synthesis, Biofuels, 12, 10, 1309-1316, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2019.1619029
  • Raha, A., Paul, P., Gupta, S., Kaushal, S., Dhanjal, JK., Paradigm shift in stem cell research with computational tools, techniques, and databases, Computational Biology for Stem Cell Research, Raghav, PK., R., Lathwal, A., Sharma, N., Academic Press, 2024, 17-32, 9780443132223, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-132223.00019-8

References

  • Dr. Jaspreet Kaur Dhanjal, jaspreet@iiitd.ac.in, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Biology, IIIT Delhi
  • Dr. Tarini Shankar Ghosh, tarini.ghosh@iiitd.ac.in, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Biology, IIIT Delhi
  • Dr. P.T.V. Lakshmi, lakanna@bicpu.edu.in, Professor & Head, Department of Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University

Projects

  • Utilization of microbial oil produced from Pichia kudriavzevii (NCIM 3653) using paper mill sludge as an alternative substrate for biodiesel synthesis, 09/2017, 04/2018, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, SRMIST Valorization of soy whey for concomitant nutrient removal and accretion of PHB (polyhroxybutyrate) using Bacillus megaterium, 09/2018, 05/2019, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, SRMIST
  • Virtual Screening for identification of novel inhibitors of VEGFR-2 and molecular simulation studies, 03/2021, 06/2022, Pondicherry, Puducherry, India, Pondicherry University
  • Paradigm shift in stem cell research with computational tools, techniques, and databases, 01/2024, Delhi, Delhi, India, IIIT Delhi
  • Network based approach to identify hub genes responsible for NAFLD disease progression, 07/2022, Present, Delhi, Delhi, India, IIIT Delhi
  • Deep Learning-based methods for X-ray image analysis for prognosis of various lung related disorders, 09/2022, Present, Delhi, Delhi, India, IIIT Delhi
  • Insights into the molecular mechanisms of NAFLD in zebrafish, 04/2024, Present, Delhi, Delhi, India, IIIT Delhi, collaboration with IIT Delhi

Teaching Assistantship

  • Cell Biology and Biochemistry, 06/2022, 12/2022
  • Introduction to Quantitative Biology, 01/2023, 05/2023
  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Data Science in Health and Climate Change for Social Impact, 03/2024, Present

Presentations

  • Oral Presentation at the DAILAB CAFE-PLUS program, 2023, Organized by AIST, Japan (One of top 11 presenters), 12/2023
  • Poster presentation and Oral Presentation on 'Network based approach to identify hub genes responsible for NAFLD disease progression', 2024, (Best poster Award) in Accelerating Biology 2024 Conference organized by C-DAC, Pune, 02/2024
  • Poster Presentation on 'Network based approach to identify hub genes responsible for NAFLD disease progression', 2023, In Research Innovation and Incubation Showcase (RIISE) organized by IIIT Delhi, 05/2023
  • Oral presentation on 'Induction of PHB Accumulation by supplementation of soy whey as a carbon source', 2019, At WEECON 2019 organized by Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, 03/2019
  • Oral presentation on 'Utilization of microbial oil produced from Pichia kudriavzevii (NCIM 3653) using paper mill sludge as an alternative substrate for biodiesel synthesis', 2019, In the Research Day at SRMIST, Chennai, 02/2019
  • Working model demonstration on 'Street light system using Light Dependent Resistor', 2016, In TechKnow 2016 organized by SRMIST, Chennai (Best Project/Working model Award)

Hackathons & Competitions

  • 2025 Women in AI (WAI) Kaggle Challenge (Detect AI vs. Human-Generated Image): Ranked 36 out of 500 teams
  • Amini Cocoa Contamination Challenge 2025 (Zindi): Currently ranked 50 out of 156 teams (mid-challenge)

Timeline

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi
01.2025 - Current

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi
03.2024 - Current

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi
01.2023 - 05.2023

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi
06.2022 - 12.2022

Ph.D. - Computational Biology

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology

M.Tech - Computational Biology

Pondicherry University

B. Tech - Biotechnology

SRM Institute of Science And Technology
Arnab Raha