Ashish V Tendulkar

CONTACT INFORMATION  
#301, Research Scholar Wing,
KReSIT, IIT Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai-400 076.
India. 		Email:ashish[AT]it.iitb.ac.in
www.it.iitb.ac.in/~ashish/
RESEARCH INTEREST   Statistical Graphical models, Kernel methods, Information extraction, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Protein structure and function prediction, Application of Machine Learning and Statistical models for solving real life problems.
EDUCATION   Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India.
  • Research Scholar, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, Oct 2007
    Advisors Prof. Pramod Wangikar and Prof. Sunita Sarawagi
    Thesis: Analysis of Protein Structure using Geometric and Machine Learning Techniques.
  • M. Tech., Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, Jan 2003
    Dissertation: Comparison of Structural Patterns in Protein by Super-imposition and Geometric Hashing
Dr. B. A. T. University, , Lonere, Maharashtra, India.
  • B. Tech., June 1999.
HONORS AND AWARDS   Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) 2008 from Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
Finalist Lane Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University USA 2007
Outstanding Research Scholar Award from Research Scholars' Forum(RSF) IIT Bombay, 2007
Infosys Research Fellowship, 2003
Gold medal for standing first in the university in B. Tech. program, 1999
29th in the state merit list of Secondary School Certification exam., 1993
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE  
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India
Research Scholar Jan 2003 - Oct 2007
Includes Ph D research, course work and projects
Indian Institute of Software Engg., Mumbai, India
Instructor Jan 2003 - May 2003
Graduate student instructor for Advance Database Management Systems course. Responsible for teaching, setting up and correction of assignments and examination papers and administrative issues regarding the course
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India
M Tech Student Jul 2001 - Jan 2003
Includes M. Tech. course work, research work and projects
Dr. B. A. T. University, Lonere, India
B Tech Student Jul 1995 - May 1999
Includes B. Tech. course work and projects
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (CNIO)), Madrid, Spain.
Summer Intern, Research Group Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
Under the mentorship of Dr. Alfonso Valencia, researched and designed a system for extraction of roles of the specific amino acids in the protein structure from the literature mining. We also analyzed correspondence between structure and sequence based protein functional residue prediction schemes.
Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd. , Pune, India
Member of Technical Staff Nov 1999 - Jul 2001
Involved in design and implementation of Persistent System's product EnList, which is an ODBC driver for LDAP directories. I was also responsible for developing test cases and web based application development around EnList. I was the architect of EnList 3.0 user interface and command server.
PUBLICATIONS   Protein Local Conformation arise from a Mixture of Gaussian Distributions, Ashish V. Tendulkar, Babatunde A. Ogunnike, Pramod P. Wangikar, submitted as an invited paper to J. Bio. Sci. March 2007.

Prediction of Function and Functional Residues in Proteins of Unknown Function from Structural Genomics Project, Ashish V Tendulkar, Ashwani Sharma, Pramod Wangikar submitted to ISMB 2007.

Gaussian Mixture Modeling of alpha-helix subclasses: Structure and Sequence variations, Ashish V. Tendulkar, Babatunde A. Ogunnike, Pramod P. Wangikar, Pac. Sym. Bio. Comp. 2006, Maui, Hawaii, Jan 3-7, 2006.

Geometric Invariant based Framework for Analysis of Protein Conformational Space, Ashish V. Tendulkar, Babatunde A. Ogunnike, Milind A. Sohoni, Pramod P. Wangikar, Bioinformatics, Volume 21, Issue 18, Sept. 2005, Pages 3622-3628.

Clustering of protein structural fragments reveals modular building block approach of nature, Ashish V. Tendulkar, Anand A. Joshi, Pramod P. Wangikar, Milind A. Sohoni, J. Mol. Biol., 338(3), 30 April 2004, Pages 611-629.

Parameterization and Classification of Protein Universe via Geometric Technique, Ashish V. Tendulkar, Pramod P. Wangikar, Milind A. Sohoni, Vivekanand V. Samant, Chetan Y. Mone, J. Mol. Biol., 334(1), 14 November 2003, Pages 157-172.

Functional Sites in Protein Families Uncovered via an Objective and Automated Graph Theoretic Approach, Pramod P. Wangikar, Ashish V. Tendulkar, S. Ramya, Deepali N. Mali and Sunita Sarawagi, J. Mol. Biol., 326(3), 21 February 2003, Pages 955-978.
PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES   Presented poster Recurring functional sites in protein structures detected with allowance for substitution of amino acids at Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing(PSB) 2007 at Maui, Hawaii, USA.

Presented poster Structure and sequence variations in beta-strand subclasses revealed via Gaussian mixture modeling at RECOMB 2006 at Venice, Italy.

Presented paper on Gaussian Mixture Modeling of alpha-helix subclasses: Structure and Sequence variations at Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing(PSB) 2006 at Maui, Hawaii, USA.

Presented poster Visualization and clustering of Protein Local Conformational Space using Geometric Invariant Theory at ECCB 2005 at Madrid, Spain.

I was also recipient of the following travel fellowships for attending the conferences:
  • ISCB travel fellowship for attending ISMB/ECCB 2007
  • Department of Energy travel fellowship for attending Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing(PSB) 2007
  • RECOMB travel fellowship for attending Tenth RECOMB 2006
  • Applied Biosystem travel fellowship for attending PSB 2006
  • ECCB travel fellowship 2005
RESEARCH TALKS   Visualization and clustering of Protein Local Conformational Space using Geometric Invariant Theory, ISCB student symposium , Madrid, Spain, Sept. 28, 2005.

Application of Geometric Invariant Theory in Protein Substructure Clustering, IRISS 2004, I.I.T. Bombay, India.
BOOKS   I am co-author of GateGenie Guide for Computer Science and Information Technology GATE, which is a compilation of Computer Science related questions and their step-wise solutions. The book is useful for preparation of Computer Science and Information Technology GATE examination. GATE is a national examination for admission in master programs of Indian Institute of Technology.
COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS   C/C++ on Linux, Perl, MATLAB, hands on experience with numerous machine learning and bioinformatics tools, web application development using PHP and MySQL.
PERSONAL INFORMATION  
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 Indian Male Single May 8, 1978
Place: Mumbai
Date: March 11, 2007