Srinivasan Ramachandran

Known for his studies in the field of data analytics, Ramachandran is also an adjunct faculty, senior principal scientist and AcSIR Professor at the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

S. Ramachandran did his undergraduate studies at the St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and after earning a BSc (honors) degree from the University of Calcutta, he completed post graduate studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in biotechnology.

[1] Ramachandran's research is in the field of informative bioinformatics and he leads a group of scientists engaged in integrative immunoinformatics, architecture of gene co-expression and flux modeling.

[3] He is credited with the discovery of new virulence factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which was accomplished using computational analysis; the studies were subsequently verified through experiments.

He is the co-developer of SPAAN, a genome informatics software[4] and has contributed to the development of OSDDlinux, a customized computer operating system for drug discovery.