Jan 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• I have got opportunity to work on some of the niche topics within HPC, these are:
• High performance scalable interconnects Slingshot.
• Exascale architecture simulation using SST.
• Application performance with Fabric attached memory framework.
• Application characterization and optimization.

Sep 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• I am working on benchmarking and characterization of HPC applications. Current work includes:
• Set-up and run different HPC applications in cluster environment to understand application characteristic and work on performance optimization.
• Using profiling/characterization tools to collect application specific information.
• Using tools to simulate application behavior for performance prediction with different hardware components.
• Involved in “DOE:Pathforward” project for characterization and modelling the proxy application which will be used for performance projections on future generation hardware.
• Providing domain expertise in life and material science research area (like Bio-molecular simulation, Genomics data analysis, chemo-informatics, bio-informatics, computational chemistry ) required for application performance engineering.

Oct 2015 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• I was a part of life science group in TCS, I was involved in following activities in this role:
• Working as subject matter expert for life science discovery research (computational genomics) for multiple projects. Few of the projects are:
• Migration of genomics analysis pipeline from in-house cluster to AWS cloud for Pfizer Inc.
• Data lake schema designing for processes across discovery research.
• Working on implementation and optimization of genomics analysis pipelines for personal genomics analysis and metagenomics analysis.
• Benchmarking and understanding compute resource requirement for life-science applications using HPC cluster.
• Understanding of in-silico tools and their mapping to various research processes in the area of discovery research.
• Using translational research platform: tranSMART to upload clinical data.
• Developing solution for optimal infrastructure utilization and effective data management for life science work-flows.
• Developing QSAR based model for prediction of thermodynamics properties of small molecules for L'Oreal.
• Providing training on bioinformatics for discovery research.

Sep 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Molecular Dynamics Simulation:
• Implementation of a molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) and QSAR based solution to predict solvation free energy of small molecules.
• Application of high performance computing in life science research.
• Benchmarking of tools (GROMACS, NAMD, velvet, bowtie, SOAPsnp) on parallel compute cluster which includes preparing the test case, and planning the runs to benchmark the tool performance (time and memory requirement) on HPC cluster.
• Understanding resource requirement for a range of life science application for optimizing the cluster design.
• Performance improvement in genomics data analysis pipeline for personal genomics using HPC infrastructure.

Aug 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs

• Currently working with the "Health and Life Science" group, work includes application of computational tools and techniques on research problems in life science domain. Focus on application of high performance computing in relevant biological problems.

Aug 2008 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

• I was a part of computational biology group with focus on HPC relevant domain applications.