INVITED LECTURES/TUTORIALS/SEMINARS (Selected List)
Within India
"Advances in Clustering Single Cell RNA-seq Data”, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and
Artificial Intelligence Symposium, IISc Bangaluru, July 19, 2024,
“Artificial Intelligence for National Development: Harnessing of Power of AI”, IAS Training
Program, Indian Statistical Institute, December 27, 2021.
“Machine Learning Approaches in Computational Biology”, Perspectives in Computational
Biology, IISER Mohali, April 1, 2021.
“Designing Lead Molecules: An Algorithmic Approach”, INAE Award Function Lecture
(INAE Woman Engineer of the Year Award 2020), January 5, 2021.
“Computational Biology and Big Data”, Birth of Modern Science in India, An Interactive
Meeting with Science Students, INSA Annual General Meeting, October 14, 2017.
“Can Life Sciences Progress Without Engineering?”, Track on Health Care Engineering,
CAETS Annual Convocation, New Delhi, October 12-15, 2015.
”Clustering in a Multiobjective Optimization Framework", Ramanujan Distinguished Lecture
Series, CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
March 20, 2015.
”Optimizing Multiple Objectives for Clustering", INAE Seminar, Heritage Institute of Technology,
Kolkata, February 18, 2015.
”Computational Methods for Solving Problems in Life Sciences", Fourth International Conference
of Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT), Computer Society of
India, December 20, 2014.
”Evolutionary Computing with Applications in Drug Design", Rajasthan University, December
13, 2014.
”Evolutionary Computing with Applications in Drug Design", IIT Jodhpur, December 8,
2014.
”Computational Challenges in Biology", INDO-CHILE Workshop on Big Data Handling",
BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, (sponsored by DST, India and CONICYT, Chile), June
5, 2014.
"Computational Intelligence Applications in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology",
Summer School on Advances in Computational Intelligence (SSACI-2014), Institute of Technical
Education and Research (ITER) and Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar,
Odisha, April 15, 2014.
"Biology Challenges Computational Scientists", Inaugural lecture on Research Scholars Day,
Department of Information Technology, IIT Kharagpur, January 11, 2014.
"Multiobjective Clustering with SVM Based Ensembling for Analysis of Gene Expression
Data", Indo-US workshop on Statistical Methods for Bioinformatics, Indian Institute of
Science, Bengaluru, December 14, 2013.
"Metaheuristic Optimization and Drug Design", Short Term Course on Computational Biology,
Bioinformatics & Their Application to Healthcare, IIT Kharagpur, Nov. 01, 2013.
"Genetic Algorithms, Multiobjective Optimization and Applications", Maulana Azad National
Institute of Technology, MANIT, Bhopal, July 1, 2013.
"Evolutionary Computing in Data Mining", Workshop on Data Mining & its Industrial
Applications, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Feb 20-22, 2013.
"A Computational Perspective on the Regulatory Network of TFs, microRNAs and Genes",
Annual Convention, Indian National Academy of Engineeering (INAE), CBRI, IIT Roorkee,
December 6-7, 2012.
"The TF-microRNA-gene Regulatory Network: A Disease Speci_c Analysis", National Institute
of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani, October 17, 2012.
"Genetic Algorithms for Clustering", Institute for Development and Research in Banking
Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad, August 6, 2012.
"Genetic Algorithms in Rational Drug Design", Indo-SingaporeWorkshop on Role of Computational
Biology in Advancing Modern Medicine, Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics, Kolkata,
February 2-3, 2012.
"Genetic Algorithms in Rational Drug Design", Indian Science Congress, Bhubaneshwar,
Jan 7, 2012.
"Genetic Algorithms: Application in Data Mining", International Conference on Information
Systems Design and Intelligent Applications (INDIA-2012), Jan 6, 2012.
"Predicting Targets of MicroRNAs", Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata, India, March 21, 2011.
"Involvement of MicroRNAs in the Regulatory Network of a Cell", 30th Annual Convention
of the Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR), IICB, Kolkata, India, February 6-9,
2011.
"Regulation of and by MicroRNAs", Humboldt Kolleg, Bengaluru, India, February 4, 2011.
"Mining of Biological Data", International Conference on Methods and Models in Computer
Science (ICM2CS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, December 13-14, 2010.
"Pattern Recognition Algorithms for Analyzing Biological Data", Tutorial Lecture, National
Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics
(NCVPRIPG), January 15, 2010.
"Computational Methods for microRNA Target Detection", Workshop on Data Mining Techniques
in Bioinformatics, NIT Rourkela, December 4, 2009.
"Soft Computing Methods in Drug Design", IMTECH, Chandigarh, March 23, 2009.
"Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology", National Institute of Pharmaceutical
Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, India, July 7, 2008.
"Genetic Algorithms in Search and Optimization", Pre-Conference Tutorial, International
Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm in Material Science and Engineering
(NGMS), Bengal Engineering and Science University, India, January 8, 2008.
"Evolutionary Computation in Structure Based Ligand Design", National Workshop On
Application of Bioinformatics in Molecular & Structural Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata,
February 23-24, 2006.
"Classification and Clustering of Satellite Images using Evolutionary Computation", Seminar
on Advances in Image Processing Techniques, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication
Engineers, Defence Electronics Application Laboratory (DEAL), Dehradun, India, July
1-3, 2005.
"Evolutionary Approach to Molecule Design Using Variable Length Representation", Institute
of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, December 27, 2004.
"Feature Extraction for Protein Superfamily Classi_cation", National Center for Biological
Science (NCBS), Bangalore, India, October 16, 2003.
"Genetic Algorithms and their Applications", Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, July 15, 2003.
Outside India “Computational Methods in Healthcare: Some Case Studies from the ISI Bioinformatics Lab”, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 5, 2025.
“Artificial Intelligence in Computational Biology: Some Case Studies”, ISS, University of Rome, November 28, 2024.
“Computational Methods in Biology: An Overview of Research in the Indian Statistical Institute”, ERK, Piran, Slovenia, September 19, 2018.
“Multiobjective Clustering”, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg, May 10, 2017.
“A Brief Introduction to the Research Activities at the Indian Statistical Institute”, University of Ljubljana, April 14, 2017.
“Multiobjective Clustering”, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, November 14, 2016.
“Studying the MicroRNA Induced Regulatory Network in Colorectal and Breast Cancer”, Czech Technical University (CVUT), Prague, June 16, 2016.
“Locality Sensitive Hashing for Sequence Similarity Search: Application in Big Data”, Workshop on Solving Big Data Challenges from Modern Science through Statistical Modelling, 5-8 May 2015, ICMS, Edinburgh.
“MicroRNA Induced Regulatory Network in Colorectal and Breast Cancer: A Machine Learning Perspective”, INAE-NATF Workshop on Healthcare, Evry, France, October 15, 2014.
“Fundamentals of Multiobjective Optimization”, INRA, Montpellier, France, September 12, 2014.
“Multiobjective Problems in Computational Biology”, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, University J. Fourier, Grenoble, France, September 18, 2014.
“Computational Analysis of MicroRNAs”, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, May 16, 2014.
“An SVM Based Approach for MicroRNA Target Prediction with Systematic Identification of Negative Samples”, Department of Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Germany, June 18, 2012.
“A new approach for predicting targets of MicroRNAs”, University of Evora, Portugal, May 29, 2012.
“A New Technique for Multiobjective Optimization”, Computer Vision Center, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 19, 2011.
“MicroRNA Target Identification”, Department of Computer Science, University of Genoa, Italy, May 13, 2011.
“Research Issues in Computational Biology”, I3S Laboratory, University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, France, May 9, 2011.
“Studying the MicroRNA Induced Regulatory Network”, 6th Workshop on Computation of Biochemical Pathways and Genetic Networks, University of Heidelberg, Germany, September 16-17, 2010.
“Metaheuristic Optimization Techniques in Clustering”, University of Heidelberg, Germany, October 6, 2009.
“Computational Molecular Biology: Basic Concepts, Challenges and Some Tasks”, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy, June 16, 2008.
“Some Computational Tasks in Molecular Biology”, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Palermo, Italy, June 13, 2008.
“Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery”, Department of Statistics, University of Rome, Italy, May 28, 2008.
“Supervised Classification for Satellite Image Analysis”, CATTID Research Center, organized by the Dept. of Physics, University of Rome, Italy, May 27, 2008.
“Basic Microarray Analysis and its Role in Cancer Study”, CATTID Research Center, organized by the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Rome, Italy, May 22, 2008.
“Inhibiting Proteins by Ligand Docking”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada, October 15, 2007.
“Computational Intelligence Approach for Designing Lead Molecule”, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 25, 2007.
Invited speaker at the 2007 Graduate Summer School on Bioinformatics of China (GSSBC07), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2007.
“Clustering with Evolutionary Computing”, AiS, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany, September 26, 2005.
“Simultaneous Optimization of Multiple Objectives: New Methods and Application”, 8th International Conference on Humans and Computers, University of Aizu, Japan, September 1, 2005.
“Genetic Algorithms for Ligand Design”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DIADIC Lab), University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA, July 7, 2004.
“Pattern Recognition in Soft Computing Framework”, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK, September 26, 2001.
“Pattern Recognition in Soft Computing Framework”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas, Arlington, USA, August 8, 2001.
“Pattern Classification Using Genetic Algorithms”, School of Computer Science and Software Engg., Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, September 22, 1999.
“Similarity Aided Linkage Learning in GEMGA”, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, June 18, 1997.
Outside India