Our Team
Meet the talented individuals behind our research and innovations
Principal Scientists
Mir Asif Iquebal
Lab Member
Position: Principal Scientist
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Computational Biology and Agricultural Bioinformatics, Genomics, Genome Assembly and RNA-seq Data Analysis, Machine Learning Techniques, Development web-based tools and genomic resources.
Sarika
Lab Member
Position: Principal Scientist
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Computational Biology and Agricultural Bioinformatics, Genomics, Genome Assembly and RNA-seq Data Analysis, Machine Learning Techniques, Development web-based tools and genomic resources.
UB Angadi
Lab Member
Position: Principal Scientist
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Development of computational tools and genomic resources
Research Scholars
Chandraket Kumar
Project Assistant
Position: Project Associate
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
NGS, Machine learning
Rahul Ray
Young Professional II
Position: Young Professional II
Institution: ICAR - Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI)
Research Interests
Software Development, Machine Learning
Tilak Chandra
Research Associate (RA)
Position: Research Associate
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Crop Genetics and Genomics
Basu Sudhakar Reddy
Research Associate (RA)
Position: Research Associate (RA)
Institution: ICAR - Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI)
Research Interests
Genomics, QTL, GWAS, NGS Data analysis
Doctoral Students
Akash M Hosamani
PhD Student
Position: Ph.D Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Genome editing, Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence
Anupama Roy
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Transcriptomics, genomics, marker discovery, computational biology
Asif Ali V K
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
CRISPR-Cas, Metagenomics
Aswini Surapuram
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Multi-omics
Dipankar Mandal
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
AI–Driven Metagenomic Framework for Predicting Soil Microbial Community Networks
Lashika Meena
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Ornamental floriculture research
Parmila
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
computational biology, genomics and transcriptomics
Princy
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute
Research Interests
Transcriptomics, Computational Genomics, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Raniya K Zubair
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Computational Biology
Shaloo Jaiswal
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Transcriptomics and Genomics
Soutrik Mukherjee
Ph.D. Student
Position: Ph.D. Scholar
Institution: ICAR - Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Research Interests
Big data analytics , ML/DL , Genomics , Metagenomics
Alumni Network
Former Principal Scientists
Former Research Scholars
Ankita Singh
Research Associate (RA)
Research Scholar at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Anoop K S Gurjar
Research Associate (RA)
Project Scientist at International Rice Research Institute, Varansi
Nov 2017 - Sep 2020
Basu Sudhakar Reddy
Research Associate (RA)
Research Associate (RA) at ICAR - Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI)
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Bibek Saha
Senior Research Fellow (SRF)
Assistant Manager at NABARD - National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Deepak Singla
Research Associate (RA)
Senior Scientist at ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Kushmaur, Mau 275103, Uttar Pradesh (U.P.)
Gitanjali Tandon
Research Associate (RA)
Project Scientist-II at ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi
Aug 2020 - Mar 2024
Jagajjit Sahu
Research Associate (RA)
Research Associate at National Institute of Plant Genome research (NIPGR), New Delhi
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Jaisri Jagannadham
Research Associate (RA)
Research Teaching Fellow at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana 131029
Jul 2017 - Jan 2022
Juli Kumari
Senior Research Fellow (SRF)
Research and Teaching at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Kashmiri Gate, New Delhi-110006
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Kalpana Singh
Research Associate (RA)
Assistant professor at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Kunal
Project Assistant
Project Associate at Murdoch University, Australia
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Mustafa Raza
Senior Research Fellow (SRF)
Research Associate at Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
Jun 2017 - Sep 2009
Naveen Kumar
Research Associate (RA)
Project Scientist at Department of Biotechnology
Mar 2023 - Jul 2024
Parva Sharma
Research Associate (RA)
Post Doc Associate at University of Maryland
Priyanka Jain
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor at Amity University, NOIDA
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Rahul Singh Jasrotia
Research Associate (RA)
Post doctoral fellow at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
May 2015 - Aug 2019
Sanjay Singh
Research Associate (RA)
Research Associate (RA) at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Jun 2022 - Jul 2025
Sukhdeep kaur
Research Associate (RA)
Research Associate at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
Tanmoy Debnath
Research Associate (RA)
Project Scientist at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Research, Chandigarh
Vasu Arora
Research Associate (RA)
Teacher at Self employed
Former Doctoral Students
Aamir Khan
Ph.D. Student
PPS at Department of Agriculture, Uttar Pradesh
Aug 2015 - Nov 2021
Ankita Negi
Ph.D. Student
Assistant Professor -Cum-Junior Scientist(Bioinformatics) at Division of Bionformatics, College of Agricultural Biotechnology, Bihar Agricultural University
Dec 2016 - Feb 2023
Baibhav Kumar
Ph.D. Student
Postdoc at University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA
Aug 2017 - Jan 2024
Bulbul Ahmed
Ph.D. Student
Postdoc at Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo, Lisbon
Jul 2014 - Sep 2021
Jutan Das
Ph.D. Student
Recent PhD Graduate & ABRL Researcher at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Aug 2019 - Jan 2025
Naina Kumari
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. (Bioinformatics) at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Nitesh Kumar Sharma
Ph.D. Student
Assistant Professor at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University Pusa, Samastipur – 848 125, Bihar, India
Jul 2019 - Jul 2023
Parinita Das
Ph.D. Student
Assistant Professor at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University Pusa, Samastipur – 848 125, Bihar, India
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
Sandeep Verma
M.Sc. Student
Section Officer at Office of Deputy Director (Horticulture), Horticulture Division-VII, Delhi Development Authority, School Block, Shakarpur, Delhi-110092
Aug 2014 - Jan 2018
Soumya Shivamurti
M.Sc. Student
Student at Hugar layout, Omshanti Nagar, Hungund 587118, Bagalkote, Karnataka
Jan 2023 - Sep 2024