Gajendra P. S. Raghava
Professor
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
India
Biography
Raghava is head and professor of computational biology at IIIT Delhi. He received his M.Tech from IIT Delhi and Ph.D. from IMTECH, Chandigarh. He worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University UK (1996-98), Bioinformatics specialist at UAMS, USA (2002-3 & 2006) and visiting a professor at POSTECH, South Korea in 2004. He worked as a scientist for 30 years (1986-2016) in IMTECH, Chandigarh. His group developed more than 250 web servers, 200 research papers, 80 Copyrights/patents, 35 databases, and mirror sites. He got following major awards/recognition i) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 2018, ii) National Bioscience Award by DBT in 2016, iii) J. C. Bose national fellowship by DST; iv) fellow of National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc); and v) fellow of Indian Academy of Science (F.A.Sc.) Bangalore. Raghava is listed in top 1% highly cited researchers by Thomson Reuters in 2014.
Research Interest
Computational Biology