Last year, I was working with Dr. Nikolay Dokholyan in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have developed a new methodology to determine the contact potentials in proteins. I applied this methodology to derive sets of contact interaction parameters for a hierarchy of interaction models including solvation and multi-body contact interaction parameters. I determined the maximum accuracy of predictions and the transferability of parameters obtained by using contact models potentials.

Before, I was working with Professor Jan Hermans in the Department of Biochemistry and BioPhysics, UNC at Chapel Hill. I developed a user interface for a scientific (molecular dynamics simulation) program using CGI, PERL, and XML. I have also designed and developed more sophisticated and advanced generic user interface implementing JAVA and XML. The developed interface promises to lead to a applicable method for any of a large number of existing and yet-to-be-written complex simulation programs.

I completed my Ph.D degree from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1998 under the supervision of Prof. Krishna Rai Dastida. Before that, I was an undergraduate and graduate (B.S and M.S in Physics) student in the University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India.