| Dr. Rajendra Joshi, a doctorate in Biochemistry from National Chemical Laboratory, has been
associated with the area of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics for the about 15 years. He has over 8
years of experience in the area of Bioinformatics, which includes experience as a researcher,
faculty member at the Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune and project manager. He is
primarily responsible for building a strong bioinformatics team at C-DAC and presently directs
projects taken up by the team. His major area of expertise, is in the use of high performance
parallel computers for biological research. His unique strength is in the form of good knowledge of
biology and parallel computing. His main research interests include, molecular dynamics simulations
of nucleic acids & proteins, genome sequence analysis, metabolic pathways and development of
Problem Solving Environments. He is a principal investigator for funded projects and other research
projects, leading to a number of publications in international journals and conferences. He is
actively involved in collaborative programmes and national scientific meets. He has numerous
publications, articles and invited talks to his credit. His career objective is to build an
environment where much of biology could be understood using high performance parallel computers. |