Internships/Thesis

Internships opportunities are available for Undergradute as well as Postgraduate through Summer Internship 2017 at IIIT-Delhi. Application for summer internships must be done through the following website: Summer Internship 2017 @ IIIT-Delhi

Duration: 2-3 months (May-June-July 2017)

Application Deadline: 10th March 2017

Details of internship projects available

• FlavorDB: A database of flavor molecules: Compilation of a flavor molecules database/web-server. The project involves following components: (a) compilation and curation of molecules found in food ingredients (starting from the in-house data of 1170 flavor molecules compiled already), (b) implementing strategies for prediction of taste of flavor molecules using WEKA/other machine learning tools (c) implementation of a web-server using WAMP. Knowledge of WEKA (machine learning) and WAMP is highly desirable.
  
  
• Prediction of drug side effects using machine learning strategies: The project involves prediction of side effects prediction using existing data and readily available machine learning tools (WEKA). The intern is expect to achieve training in: Dealing with biological, chemical data; Computational manipulation of data from genes, proteins, drugs and phenotypic side effects, Implementation of machine learning algorithms for prediction of side effects.
  
  
• Food pairing analysis: This project involves analysis of food pairing in different world cuisines, aligned with studies done in Indian cuisine. The intern is expected to have very good command in python coding and interest in data analytics.
  
  
• Computational analysis of food-disease associations network: This project involves compilation of food-disease association data from literature using natural language processing tools and further network analysis to draw inferences. The intern is expected to have very good command in python coding, natural language processing and interest in data analytics.
  
  

Opportunities for conducting postgraduate thesis research are available in my lab at IIIT-Delhi. Expected areas of thesis: BTech/MSc/MTech (Bioinformatics/ Computer Science/ Computational Biology/ Data Sciences/ Life Sciences/ Biotechnology/ Physics/ Mathematics). Write at bagler@iiitd.ac.in with (i) your latest CV, (ii) expected time window of the thesis, (iii) areas of interest.

Duration: (Minimum) 4 months/ 6 months/ 10-12 months

Application Deadline: Rolling.

Areas for MSc/MTech Thesis research:

• Network Biology: Modeling and control of complex diseases
  
  
• Food data analytics: Food ingredients, flavor molecules, receptors and molecular mechanisms of taste and smell.
  
  
• Brain networks: Brain Network Modeling (C. elegans, Macaque) and mechanisms of control
  
  
• Modeling data of Drug-Target-Side Effects for prediction of side effects
  
  
• Data-driven design of algorithms for generation of novel recipes and application development