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About me
Hi ! I am from the city of Salem, Tamil Nadu, South India. I am a saurashtrian and I have been trying to answers some of my friends' question as to who are saurashtrians ? Some claim that saurashtrians are of aryan lineage, the same as brahmins following Vaishnava samprada and that they are early settlers from N. India and distinguished by their unique talent in weaving. There are also legends that claim saurashtrains are of Scythia origin of the rajput race and saurashtrians are of sarmatians lineage with women warriors (huh??). I am still trying to find out which is true ...Now, back to me !!
I did most of my schooling at Sri Vidya Mandir Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Salem Steel Plant and my higher Secondary at SRV Higher Secondary School, Rasipuram.
I graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering at the Department of Information Technology, Sona College of Technology, Salem,India. I have worked as a trainee cum Research Assistant at The GeneTech, Research Institute of Biotechnology with the BioMedical Engineering Research Foundation at Salem, India.
I graduated with a Masters in Bioinformatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA with the class of 2005. I was also working as Research Assistant with Dr. Don Gilbert at Genome Informatics Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington.
I then moved to the East Bay (Walnut Creek) of Northern California to work with the Microbial Genomics division at Joint Genome Institute.
I moved back to India in August of 2006 to join my parents' business. I managed garment production and accounts in our firm. I also floated a garment company SILKEN GRACE. I am also enrolled in a Masters program in International Business at Universitas 21 Global based in Singapore.
I joined the PhD program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine in the year 2008 at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. I am working on Organelle Footprinting with Prof. Jeremy Simpson and Dr. Kathleen Curran.
You can find more about my work and research in the projects section.