Connecting Science and Technology for a brighter tomorrow

 

VISION

Data sciences has emerged as a critical technology for all basic and translational research endeavours. The abundance of natural wealth, bio-diversity, geo-diversity can be put to great use for the development of the North East region in particular and nation in general by adopting contemporary scientific and technological advances. CSIR-NEIST undertakes the path of documentation, digitization, deposition of data and analyse this data with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applications, with outcomes leading to societal benefit.

 

MANDATE

The division’s mandate is to conduct fundamental and applied research in Computational Modelling and Data Science Spanning. The division is expected to facilitate various R&D Divisions viz. Geosciences, Chemical Sciences, Materials Sciences, Biological Sciences and Engineering Sciences to perform big data analysis by adopting contemporary scientific and technological advances. Also it will undertake the path of documentation, digitization, deposition of data and subject this data for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applications.

 

OBJECTIVE

  • Developing disease specific webportals based on galaxy platform on metabolic disorders, NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease), HIV, etc.
  • Chemoinformatics and developing a compound library, where each compound available in public domain is obtained and a given a special MPDS ID, akin to Aadhar card.
  • Developing interaction with medical doctors and clinicians in healthcare, and kickstart the initiative of DISHA (development of informatics for societal health advancement), which was conceived a while ago.
  • Employing the state of art AI, ML and statistical approaches for data analysis in chemo-, bio-, pharmaco-, geo-, plant-, and soil informatics.
  • IoT based real time data generation, modeling with AI, ML.
  • Documentation, digitization & deposition of plant species collected from North Eastern region of India.
  • Development of potential disease modifying agent using Computer Aided Drug Design approach.
  • Designing pharmacophore & drug target interaction models using structural bio informatics.
  • Development of new functional materials for device designing.
  • Development of new geo dynamic model to understand the lithospheric deformation pattern beneath North East Himalaya and Indo-Burmese wedge.
  • Understanding the complex lithospheric and asthenospheric interaction in Shillong plateau and understanding its pop up tectonics.


Head of the Division
Dr Hridoy Jyoti Mahanta
Ph. D in Computer Science and Engineering
Scientist
ID No. 1298
Email ID: hridoy@neist.res.in, hridoy69@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Arificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Development, Database Development


Scientists
Dr Selvaraman Nagamani
Ph. D
Scientist
ID No. 1293
Email ID: nagamani@neist.res.in
Area of Interest: Software Development, Machine Learning, Network Pharmacology
Dr Hridoy Jyoti Mahanta
Ph. D in Computer Science and Engineering
Scientist
ID No. 1298
Email ID: hridoy@neist.res.in, hridoy69@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Arificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Development, Database Development
Dr Pankaj Bharali
PhD (Botany)
Scientist (Adjuct)
ID No. 1297
Email ID: pbharali@neist.res.in, pankajbharali98@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Plant pathogen interaction, genomic-based pathogenicity, plant systematics, alpine biodiversity, medicinal and aromatic plants, conservation biology, traditional knowledge-based drug discovery, ethnobiology
Technical Staffs
Mr Bikram Phukan
B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Technical Officer
ID. No. 1349
Email ID: bikram@neist.res.in
Areas of interest: Website Development, Sotware Development, Artificial Inteligence, Machine Learning
Mr Debasish Saikia
M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Technical Officer
ID. No. 1350
Email ID: debasish@neist.res.in
Areas of interest: Brain-computer Interface, Machine Learning, Internet-of-Things, Software Development
Mr Vaikundamani S
Diploma in Information Technology
Technical Assistant
ID. No. 1332
Email ID: vaikundamani@neist.res.in
Areas of interest: IT Administration, Computer Hardwares and Network Security, Website Development
Post Doctoral Fellows
Dr Himakshi Sarma
Ph. D, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam
Post Doctoral Fellow
Email ID: hima91sarma@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Development of galaxy based Cancer Specific Web portal (MPDS-Cancer) using Machine Learning, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Dr Asheesh Kumar
Ph. D in Applied Physics, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Post Doctoral Fellow
Email ID: akbbau@yahoo.com
Area of Interest: Computational Chemistry, Molecular Modeling, Non-Covalent Interactions, Computer-Aided Drug Design, Development of Disease Specific Web Portals (MPDS) based on Galaxy Platform, Compound Library, IoT, Artificial Inteligence and Machine Learning
Dr Jyotirmoy Deb
Ph. D in Physics, Assam University, Silchar, Assam
Post Doctoral Fellow
Email ID: deb.jyotirmoy11@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Electronic Structure Calculations, Designing of Novel Materials for Optoelectronics, Energy Storage and Gas Sensing Applications
Dr Prajisha. J
Ph. D in Bioinformatics
Post Doctoral Fellow
Email ID: prajishasujaya@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Drug Design, Molecular Dynamics, Pharmacophore Mapping and Molecular Docking
Past Post Doctoral Fellows
Dr Anwesh Pandey
Ph. D, BR Ambedkar University, Luckhnow, Uttar Pradesh
Post Doctoral Fellow
Email ID: apdapbbau@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Computational Chemistry, Noncovalent Interactions
Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal
Dr Nandan Kumar
Ph. D in Computational Biology, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, Telangana
Post Doctoral Fellow
Email ID: mr.kumarnandan@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Protein and Membrane Modeling, Non-Covelant Interactions and Drug Design
Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Kansas State University, USA
Dr Lijo John
Ph. D in Biological Sciences
Post Doctoral Fellow
Email ID: lijo89john@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Chemoinformatics, Machine learning, Computer Aided Drug Design, Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite (MPDS) - Software Development
Current Position: Dr. Reddy's Lab, Hyderabad
Dr Esther Jamir
Ph. D in Computational Biology
Post Doctoral Fellow
Email ID: essjmr@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Computer Aided Drug Designing, Network Pharmacology, Database Development, Web Portal Design, Molecular Biology
Current Position: Schrodinger Inc. Hyderabad


Research Scholars
Ms. Lipsa Priyadarsinee
M.Sc. in Bioinformatics
Research Scholar
Email ID: lipsa.bim@gmail.com, lipsa.neist22j@acsir.res.in
Area of Interest: Computational and Structural Biology, Data Science (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning), Database Development, and Web Portal Design
Ms. Kripa Dristi Dihingia
M.Sc. in Chemistry
Research Scholar
Email ID: k.drysti@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Computational chemistry and Materials Modelling, Designing of Advanced Materials for High-end Applications, Properties Exploration of Nanoscale Materials
Ms. Dipshikha Gogoi
M.Sc. in Bioinformatics
Research Scholar
Email ID: dipshikhagogoi67@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Computer-Aided Drug Designing, Structural Biology, Molecular Modeling, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Biological Network Analysis and Database Development
Mr. Abhishek Pandey
M.Sc. in Biotechnology (Assam University, Silchar, Assam)
Research Scholar (UGC-JRF)
Email ID: Pandeyabhishek655@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Molecular Biology of Host-Pathogen Interaction and Diseases
Past Research Scholars
Dr Bhargav Kumar
Ph. D in Computational Chemistry(Thesis Submitted)
DST Inspire Fellow
Email ID: bhargavkumar1804@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Computational Chemistry, Cheminformatics and Data Driven Approaches
Current Position: Senior Project Associate, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad
Dr Kikrusenuo Kiewhuo
Ph. D in Computational Biology(Thesis Submitted)
Research Scholar(UGC-NET JRF)
Email ID: kikrutant@gmail.com, kikrusenuo.neist19a@acsir.res.in
Area of Interest: Database development, Ethnopharmacology, Protein-Protein Interaction, Molecular Modelling, Natural Products
Dr Esther Jamir
Ph. D in Computational Biology
Post Doctoral Fellow
Email ID: essjmr@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Computer Aided Drug Designing, Network Pharmacology, Database Development, Web Portal Design, Molecular Biology
Current Position: Schrodinger Inc. Hyderabad
Project Staffs
Mr Hillul Chutia
B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Scientific Administrative Assistant
Email ID: hillulchutia@gmail.com
Area of Interest: App Development and Machine Learning
Past Project Staffs
Mr. Bitopan Mazumdar
M. Tech in Information Security (NIT Allahabad)
Research Scholar
Email ID: bitu.mazumdar@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Machine learning, Web Application Development
Ms Debaporna Bhagowati
M.Sc. in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Scientific Administrative Assistant
Email ID: debapornajrt@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Biological Database Management System, Microbiology and Biotechnology
Mr Krishnendu Dey
M.Sc. in Chemistry
Project Associate-I
Email ID: krishnandudey2017@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Computational nanomaterials defects and catalysis