ANKIT GUPTA

c/o Shri H L Gupta, 21, Vallabh Nagar Ext., Kota 324007, Rajasthan, India
Ph No.: +919972019437. E-mail: a.gupta@iitg.ernet.in, ankitgupta.iitg@gmail.com

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Technology (2008)

CBSE, Class XII (2004)

CBSE, Class X (2002)

Institution : Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)

Major
: Biotechnology
CPI
: 8.62/10
Major CPI : 9.15/10 (CPI in Biotechnology Courses)
DAV Public School, Kota
81.2%
Modern Senior Secondary School, Kota
86.7%

IMPORTANT PROJECTS
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Aug07 Apr08 (B. Tech. Project)
Study of the evaporation-induced patterns from droplets of mammalian cells
- Samples used were BHK-21 and HT-29 cell lines. Experiments were conducted using stained and
unstained cells. Imaging techniques used were Optical and Scanning Electron Microscopy
- A model was developed and simulated in MATLAB to explain the variance in observations by
incorporating the effects of gravity, enhanced evaporation from the edge of the droplets and
pinning of contact line
- Supervisors: Dr. S. S. Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
Prof. Arun Chattopadhyay, Head, Center for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati
University of Toronto, Toronto May07 Aug07
Statistical analysis of data generated from experiments involving high throughput yeast cell
screening using a confocal microscope
- Various statistical techniques like chi-square normality test, Anderson darling statistic test and
Principal Component Analysis were applied and implemented in MATLAB Statistics Toolbox
- Supervisor: Dr. Charlie Boone, Professor, Donnelly CCBR, University of Toronto
Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore May06 - July06
Creation of a computing server named Consensus Secondary Structure Prediction (CSSP)
for predicting the secondary structure of a protein
- The web server was hosted on a REDHAT 9 platform on APACHE web server. Programs were
written in PERL & C to search dynamically for various patterns (motifs) in huge databases like
GDB, PDB, SWISSPROT, PIR etc and predict the consensus secondary structure
- The web server can be accessed at http://bioserver1.physics.iisc.ernet.in/cssp
- Supervisor: Dr. K. Sekar, Principal Research Scientist, SERC, IISc Bangalore
PUBLICATIONS

Gupta, A., Deshpande, A., Amburi, J. K., Sabarinathan, R., Senthilkumar, R. and Sekar, K.,
CSSP: Consensus Secondary Structure Prediction: A Web based server for structural biologists;
J. APPL. CRYST (2009) (In Press)

TERM PROJECTS
Simulating a two-phase flow in a two dimensional T-shaped channel using VISA-RELAP 5
- Simulated the fluid flow in the channel to calculate various parameters like pressure drop, fluid
velocity, mass qualities etc across the entire spatial location of the channel
- Supervisor: Dr Manmohan Pandey, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati
- Course Two Phase Flow and Heat Transfer
Created a Student Registration Automation Software for IIT Guwahati
- The project involved the creation of a database schema and a web-interface implementation
- Oracle (Server 10g) was used as backend and JSP (with JDBC and Java Servlets) was used to
design the front end
- Supervisor: Dr. J. K. Deka, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, IIT Guwahati
- Course Databases Laboratory

 Gene Cloning and Transformation of Tobacco Plant

- Successfully transformed a Tobacco plant with a desirable gene via Agrobacterium-mediated
transformation technique. This work was done as part of a course in Plant Biotechnology
- Supervisor: Dr. Lingaraj Sahoo, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IITG
- Course Plant Biotechnology Laboratory
WORK EXPERIENCE
Since June 2008, I have been a part of the Microsoft Group in the TMT vertical (Technology, Media &
Telecom) at Mu Sigma Business Solutions Pvt Ltd as a Business Analyst, with a focus on high end data
analytics; the end result being development of business insights for the client.
Project 1: A DataMining project for CMRI, Microsoft
Role: My task was to validate a database developed by Microsoft against other databases acquired
and provided from market research companies like IDC, PCMIT & NPD. The analytical process
involved definition of key metrics common across the databases, correlation analysis and market
share analysis. Regression Models were built to predict the sales of Microsoft Products using the
database and upper and lower limits were computed for the predicted value within a 95%
confidence interval.
Techniques Used: Correlation Analysis, Market Share Analysis, Regression Models, Computation
of lower and upper limits within a 95% confidence interval.
Softwares Used: SAS, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, xCelsius
Project 2: A Survey Analysis project for DTS Team, Microsoft
Role: My task involved conducting audit of the data collected from a biannual survey by the DTS
team, defining and calculation of key metrics as and when required by different business group
leaders, providing key insights regarding the metrics calculated and delivering insight packages on
key focus areas by performing analysis using different statistical techniques.
Techniques Used: Linear & Logistic Regression Models, Cluster Analysis, Discriminant Analysis,
CHAID, Data Fusion, Markov Chain Analysis
Softwares Used: SPSS, Microsoft Excel, SAS
SKILLS

Programming Languages: C/C++, JAVA, PERL

Web Design: HTML, JavaScript, Microsoft Frontpage
Scripting Languages: CGI with Perl, SSI, PHP (oci8 also), JSP, Java Servlets, JDBC
Database Management: Oracle (Server 10g), My SQL, Microsoft Access
Software Packages: MATLAB, Rasmol, Apache Web Server, Microsoft Office Suite, SPSS, SAS
Statistical Techniques: OLS & Logistic Regression, FactorGram & Cluster Analysis, ARIMA &
Time Series Analysis, CHAID

TERM PAPERS AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

Presented a seminar on Virtualization as a part of Domain Knowledge Sessions in Mu Sigma

Presented a credit seminar on Network Biology in sixth semester (2007)
Presented a seminar on Emerging Technologies in Environmental Monitoring, Assessment
and Protection as a part of Environmental Management course (2008)
Presented a course seminar on Environmental Monitoring using Biosensors (2008)
Presented a term paper on Shape Memory Alloys as a part of Biomaterials course (2007)
Presented a course seminar on Gene Prediction Algorithms (2007)
Presented a term paper on Micro propagation (2006)

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS

Secured a position in the Top 20 Merit List of IIT Guwahati for the academic year 06 07
Was awarded the NTSE merit scholarship by the Government of India on securing 4th position
by merit in the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) (provincial level)

Was awarded the STSE merit award by the Government of Rajasthan on securing 3rd position by
merit in Science Talent Search Examination (provincial level)
Secured 55th position by merit in National Science Talent Search Examination (national level)
Among top 1% of the 200,000 students who appeared in IIT-JEE 2004

OTHER EXAMINATIONS

Graduate Record Examination

Total: 1360 (Verbal: 560, Quantitative: 800, Analytical Writing: 5.5)
TOEFL iBT
Total: 114 (Reading: 29, Listening: 29, Speaking: 26, Writing: 30)

RELEVANT COURSES
Two Phase Flow & Heat Transfer
Fluid Mechanics
Chemical Reaction Engineering
Metabolic Engineering
Biochemical Engineering*
Algorithms
Environmental Biotechnology
Mathematics I, II, III
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology*
Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering*
Biophysics
Biomaterials
Microbiology*

Equilibrium Stage Operations & Mass Transfer

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Chemical Process Calculations
Systems Biology
Bioseparation Engineering
Databases*
Environmental Management
Engineering Mechanics
Industrial Microbiology
Animal Cell Biotechnology
Biosafety, Ethics & IPR
Biochemistry*
Immunology

* Theory with Lab

SEMESTER TRAINING (LAB WORK IN COURSES MENTIONED ABOVE)

Biochemical Engineering: Familiarization with bioreactors, kinetic studies of batch and fed batch
culture systems of bacteria in fermentors, enzyme assays, determination of mass transfer
coefficients by dynamic method
Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering: Preparation of competent cells, transformation and
screening of recombinant clones, -gal expression, plasmid and genomic DNA isolation from E.
coli, RNA isolation, restriction digestion and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis,
PCR amplification, purification of PCR product, southern blot
Microbiology: Laboratory techniques for isolation, cultivation and cultural characterization of
microorganisms, bacterial staining, cultivation of microorganisms, nutritional requirements,
enumeration of microbial populations, cultivation and morphology of molds and yeast, cultivation
of microorganisms in unknown soil sample
Biochemistry: Estimation of protein, carbohydrate, nucleic acid, enzyme kinetics, electrophoresis
of protein (SDS-PAGE and Native-PAGE), determination of Tm of DNA, protein unfolding
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: MD simulation, global and local sequence
alignment techniques, familiarization with structural homology, BLAST, CLUSTAL W

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Placement Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati

Sports Secretary (2005-06), Manas Hostel, IIT Guwahati
Team Member, The Breakthrough Science Society IIT Guwahati Chapter
Team Member, Genesis Students Society of Biotechnologists in IIT Guwahati
Participated in the National Symposium on Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology
Attended the Indo French Conference on Bioinformatics at NCBS, Bangalore

REFRENCES

Dr. K. Sekar, Principal Research Scientist, Bioinformatics Center, SERC, IISc Bangalore

Email: sekar@physics.iisc.ernet.in
Dr S S Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
Email: sghosh@iitg.ernet.in
Dr Arun Goyal, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
Email: arungoyl@iitg.ernet.in