DEPARTMENT OF BIOINFORMATICS

Bio

Dr. Ashwani Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Jaypee University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India, in 2018. Dr. Kumar completed his Post-Doctoral research at CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, in 2021. His work focuses on computational mining of genomics and proteomics data to gain insights into Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Kumar holds an MSc in Bioinformatics and a BSc in Medical Sciences. He has qualified for the NET (National Eligibility Test) and GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) in Life Sciences in December 2010 and March 2011, respectively. With a total of 7 years of teaching and research experience, Dr. Kumar has contributed significantly to the field of bioinformatics.

To date, Dr. Kumar has published 3 review articles, 18 research articles, and 4 book chapters in reputed publishers like Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. He has extensive experience in NGS (Next-Generation Sequencing) data analysis, Artificial Intelligence, structural bioinformatics, and shell scripting.

His research primarily focuses on machine learning and structural bioinformatics studies of neurological malignancies. Dr. Kumar also teaches subjects like Basic and Advanced Bioinformatics, Linux-OS, Biostatistics, Machine Learning, Python, R, and NGS.

Education

• Ph.D. in Bioinformatics – Jaypee University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India (2018)
• MSc in Bioinformatics
• BSc in Medical Sciences

Awards and Honors

• Qualified for NET in Life Sciences (Dec 2010)
• Qualified for GATE in Life Sciences (Mar 2011)

Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University