Ashish V. Tendulkar > Awards and Honors

Awards

• Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) 2008 from Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India (2009)
• IIT Bombay IRCC Best research paper award 2007 for my paper "Functional Sites in Protein Families Uncovered via an Objective and Automated Graph Theoretic Approach" based on the number of citations among research papers published during last ten years at IIT Bombay (2009)
• Juan de la Cierva convocatoria from Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (2009)
• Best Research Scholar Award from Research Scholar Forum, IIT Bombay (2007)
• Infosys Research Fellowship from Infosys (Research Grant for Ph D thesis 2003-07)(2003)

Research Funding

• Innovative Young Biotechnologist award (IYBA) for "Functional Genomics of Orphan Structural Proteome" (2010-2012).
• Infosys research fellowship project @ IIT Bombay for "Analysis of Protein Structures using Geometric and Machine Learning Techniques" (2003-2007).

Education

• Ph. D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2009.
• M. Tech., Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay, 2003.
• B. Tech., Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University Lonere, 1999.

Professional Experience

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras, Since Sept. 2009.
• Post-doctoral Associate, Structural Biology and Bioinformatics group, Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Madrid, Spain, May - Aug 2009.
• Technical Leader, Persistent Systems Ltd. Pune, Mar 2008-May 2009.
• Member of Technical Staff, Persistent Systems Ltd. Pune, Nov. 1999-Mar 2008.