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AU-KBC RESEARCH CENTRE

Dr. Ravi Gupta

 

Education

 

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science & Engineering                      

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India                                                   Nov 2007

 

M.Sc. Informatics

Institute of Informatics & Communication, University of Delhi, India                   July 2003

 

B.Sc. (Honors) Electronics

Sri Venkateswara college, University of Delhi, India                                          July 2001

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Member Research Staff, (Dec. 2007 – present)

AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus, Anna University

Chennai, India

 

 

Research Interests

 

Bioinformatics (Repetitive structures, Protein classification, Genomic signal Processing)

Machine Learning (Pattern Recognition, Clustering algorithms, Data mining)

Bioinformatics Algorithms for Cell Processor

Bio-image processing

 

 

Publications

 

A novel and efficient technique for identification and classification of GPCRs IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in Biomedicine, pp. 1–8, 2007. (To appear)

 

A novel signal processing measure to identify exact and inexact tandem repeat patterns in DNA sequences EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Article ID 43596, pp. 1–7, 2007. [PMID: 17713591]

           

An efficient algorithm to detect palindromes in DNA sequences using periodicity transform Signal Processing Journal, Elsevier Publication, vol. 86, pp. 2067–2073, 2006.

 

A novel approach for prediction of protein structural classes using physicochemical properties of amino acids In Proc. Indo-U.S. Symposium on Data, Information & Knowledge Spectrum (ISDIKS 07), Kerala, India, pp. 1–6, December 13–15, 2007. (To appear)

 

Identification of nuclear receptors and its family using wavelet variance features In Proc. 10th International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT 2007), Rourkela, India, pp. 68–73, 17–20 December, 2007.

 

A time series analysis approach for identification of exons and introns In Proc. 10th International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT 2007), Rourkela, India, pp. 91–93, 17–20 December, 2007.

 

Wavelet variance features for identification and classification of GPCRs using SVM In IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2007), Singapore, pp. 1-12, October 1–2, 2007. [One of the ten papers selected for publication in IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine]

 

Computational detection of relative homogeneities in biological sequences In Proc. International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies (ICACCT 2007), India, pp. 62–65, November 3–4, 2007.

 

Discrete wavelet transform features for classification of protein coding regions in DNA sequences using SVM

In Proc. International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2006), New Delhi, Poster no. P-046, December 18–20, 2006. [Poster]

 

Identifying inverted repeat structure in DNA sequences using correlation framework In Proc. European Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO 2006), Italy, pp. 1865.1–1865.5, September, 2006.

 

Exactly periodic subspace decomposition based approach for identifying tandem repeats in DNA sequences In Proc. European Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO 2006), Italy, pp. 1857.1–1857.5, September, 2006.

 

Predicting secondary structure of RNA using correlation framework In Proc. International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2005), Bhubaneswar, India, pp. 257–262, December 20–23, 2005.

 

Detection of palindromes in DNA sequences using periodicity transform In Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS 2004), Singapore, pp. S2.7.INV-20 – S2.7.INV-23, December 1-3, 2004.

 

 

Honors and Awards

 

Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource & Development (MHRD), Institute Assistantship, 2004-2007.

 

IIC Institute Scholarship, University of Delhi, India, 2001-2002.

 

Certificate of Merit from C.B.S.E for outstanding performance and for being among the top 0.1% of successful candidates of A.I.S.S.C.E in Physics, 1997-1998.

 

Gold Medal in Mathematics, Social Studies, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan’s, Bhimavaram, 1995-1996.

 

Best All Rounder Award, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan’s, Bhimavaram, 1995-1996.

 

Best artist in painting (Junior & Senior), Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan’s, Bhimavaram, 1994-1996.

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Dept. of Electronics & Computer Engg.

                       

Teaching Assistant

Course: Switching Circuit / Digital Electronics Lab (Spring 2005, Spring  2006)

Responsibilities: Assisting students in performing experiment and evaluation of experiments, exams, quizzes and grades of undergraduate students.

 

Courses: Assembly Language Lab, Object Oriented Programming Lab (Autumn 2005)

Responsibilities: Preparation of lab assignments, troubleshooting and evaluation of assignments, preparing quizzes and assigning grades to undergraduate students.

 

 Course: Basic Electronics (Autumn 2004)

 Responsibilities: Preparation and evaluation of assignments, quizzes and exams of undergraduate students.

 

 

Conferences/Workshop Attended

 

Attended Workshop on Cell Broadband Engine, IBM, Bangalore, India, March 2007.

 

Presented paper at International Conference on Bioinformatics, New Delhi, India, Dec. 2006.

 

Presented paper at International Conference on Information Technology, Bhubaneswar, India,

Dec. 2005.

 

Attended Workshop on Broad Band Technologies, jointly organized by Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering and Alcatel, IIT Roorkee, India, Dec. 2005.