Ramesh Hariharan -- Using Data to Understand Biological Systems
Channel: Big Data Initiative at CSA (IISc)
Date: 2014-04-03

On 27th March, 2014, Prof. Ramesh Hariharan delivered the second lecture in the series on the increasing role of data science in understanding biological systems.

Abstract:
Hidden inside a living organism are a large number of molecular entities, all working in concert to make, and sometimes break, the organism. We are slowly learning to tease out information about these entities, less and less via direct observation, and more and more via indirect data generation. This talk will provide an introduction to the area and outline various challenges in generating this data, priming it for analysis, interpreting its meaning, and using it to impact lives.

Speaker Bio:
Ramesh Hariharan is Founder-CTO of Strand Life Sciences and Adjunct Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Indian Institute of Science. At Strand, over the last 10 years, Ramesh has led teams building analytical tools for high-throughput molecular profiling: these tools are widely used and have been cited in several thousand publications. More recently, Ramesh and the team at Strand have been working on technology to make DNA sequencing for genetic disease diagnosis affordable in India. Ramesh's research contributions in computer science include fast algorithms for several combinatorial algorithmic problems. Ramesh got his Bachelor's degree from IIT, Delhi, in 1990, his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University in 1994, and subsequently did a Post-Doc at the Max-Planck Institut fur Informatik in Saarbrucken, Germany.