Hello, I'm
Prasanna Sarmah

Ph.D. researcher and computational biologist at CSIR-NEIST building AI-assisted pipelines for multi-omics, transcriptomics and healthcare analytics.

Computational Biologist
specialized in Multi-Omics & AI.

Prasanna Sarmah
Best Research
Achievement
10+
SCI
Publications
5+
Years
Research
About Me

Researcher at the intersection of biology and AI.

Prasanna Sarmah is a Ph.D. researcher specialising in computational biology, transcriptomics, proteomics, RNA-seq analysis, structural bioinformatics, molecular simulations, and machine learning workflows for biological data.

He builds AI-assisted biological pipelines using Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow and HPC/cloud environments, applying them to healthcare analytics, multi-omics integration and life sciences research at CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat.

5+
Years research
10+
Publications
15+
Tools & stacks
Research Interests
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Transcriptomics & RNA-seq
Structural Bioinformatics
Machine Learning in Biology
Plant Stress Biology
Education

Academic timeline

2022 — Ongoing

Ph.D. in Biological Sciences

CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (under AcSIR)

Computational biology, multi-omics & ML
2018 — 2020

M.Sc. in Biotechnology & Bioinformatics

North Eastern Hill University, Shillong

CGPA: 3.65 / 6
2015 — 2018

B.Sc. in Biotechnology

North Eastern Hill University, Shillong

Percentage: 60.38%
Experience

Where research meets practice

5 Years

Project Associate

CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (CSIR-NEIST) · Jorhat, India

Computational analysis of phytochemicals against major human diseases
Biomarker-driven pathway and network analysis
Integration of omics data with machine learning
Disease resistance and stress signaling analysis
Interdisciplinary biological research collaboration
Biological data analysis and computational workflow development
Skills

A full research stack

From wet lab fundamentals to deep learning frameworks and HPC environments.

Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

TranscriptomicsProteomicsRNA-seq AnalysisStructural BioinformaticsMolecular DockingMolecular DynamicsWGCNACo-expression NetworksMulti-omics IntegrationCheminformaticsPlant Stress Biology

Cell Culture & Bioprocess

Plant Tissue CultureMicrobial Cell CultureBioprocess Engineering

Machine Learning & AI

PyTorchTensorFlowJAXDeep LearningTransformersLSTMRNNRepresentation LearningPredictive ModelingClassification & Regression

Programming & Data Science

PythonRBashNumPypandasscikit-learnSciPy

Databases & Platforms

ChEMBLPubChemPDBUniProtAlphaFoldDBOpenTargets

Visualization & Analytics

MatplotlibTableauPower BI

Cloud & HPC

AWSSLURMHPC Environments
Projects

Selected research projects

Computational pipelines, ML models, and analytical workflows shipped across multiple research collaborations.

PRJ — 01

Transcriptomics & Multi-Omics Pipeline

Unified workflow for integrating transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics across diseases.

PythonRDESeq2WGCNA
Outcome · Identified shared regulatory modules across conditions.
PRJ — 02

RNA-seq Analysis with Deep Learning

End-to-end RNA-seq workflow with deep models for expression-based phenotype prediction.

PyTorchSTARSalmon
Outcome · Improved classification AUC across benchmark datasets.
PRJ — 03

Molecular Docking & MD Pipeline

Automated docking + MD framework for screening phytochemicals against disease targets.

AutoDockGROMACSBash
Outcome · Pipeline reused across 3 disease projects.
PRJ — 04

Computational Drug Discovery

Virtual screening of natural compounds for human disease targets.

ChEMBLRDKitML
Outcome · Shortlisted lead candidates for in-vitro studies.
PRJ — 05

Biomarker Prediction with ML

ML-driven discovery of predictive biomarkers from multi-omics datasets.

scikit-learnXGBoost
Outcome · Robust biomarker panels with cross-cohort validation.
PRJ — 06

Structural Bioinformatics Workflow

Homology modelling, validation and structure-guided analysis pipeline.

AlphaFoldPyMOLPDB
Outcome · High-confidence models for novel targets.
PRJ — 07

WGCNA Co-expression Networks

Module discovery and hub-gene identification across stress conditions.

RWGCNA
Outcome · Mapped key regulators of plant stress response.
PRJ — 08

Plant Stress Biology Analysis

Computational dissection of plant transcriptional response to abiotic stress.

RNA-seqPathway
Outcome · Cataloged stress-responsive regulons.
PRJ — 09

Microbial Culture & Bioprocess

Data analytics for microbial cell culture optimization and bioprocess scale-up.

PythonStats
Outcome · Optimized productivity in pilot runs.
Certifications & Achievements

Recognition & credentials

Certifications

Molecular Dynamics Certification

Udemy

Chem Bio IT-QSAR Workshop 2022

Workshop

NGS Analysis & Drug Discovery Training

IBAB Bangalore

Poster — Intl. Conf. on CRISPR & Computational Biology

Conference

Achievements

01Multiple SCI-indexed research publications
02Cross-disciplinary computational biology expertise
03Multi-omics and structural biology research experience
04AI-assisted biological data analysis
05Collaborative interdisciplinary research
06Strong computational and analytical problem-solving skills
Contact

Let's collaborate

Open to research collaborations, consulting, and industry opportunities in computational biology, multi-omics and AI-assisted healthcare analytics.