Government of India · MHRD Innovation Cell
Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020
Coordinator and mentor for India's flagship national drug-discovery hackathon — connecting students, faculty, and industry around real-world problems.
Outreach & Teaching
Science is for society.
Beyond the lab, a sustained commitment to mentoring the next generation of scientists — from school students in tinkering labs to PhD scholars across India.
2k+
Training sessions, FDPs & QIPs
23
Sessions for ATL school students
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Mentor of Change, NITI Aayog
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DBT-funded ML upskilling, 2020
Mentor of Change
NITI Aayog — Atal Tinkering Labs
Delivered ~23 scientific sessions to school students through ATL, sparking early curiosity in biology, chemistry, and AI.
Mentor
AIM-IIIT Kottayam
Mentoring student innovators at the Atal Incubation Mission centre at IIIT Kottayam.
VIT Vellore · Pondicherry University · BIF
Research Advisor
Advising graduate research programmes and bioinformatics initiatives across multiple Indian institutes.
Invite a talk or workshop
Topics span computational drug discovery, agentic AI, longevity targets, and reproducible cheminformatics — adapted for school, undergraduate, postgraduate, or industry audiences.
Past lectures on YouTube →