Dr. Rajendra Joshi 

Associate Director & HOD
Bioinformatics Group
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Pune University Campus,
Ganesh Khind,
Pune - 411 007 India.

TeleFax: +91-20-2569-4084
Email   : braf-help@cdac.in

Dr. Rajendra Joshi, a doctorate in Biochemistry from National Chemical Laboratory, has been associated with the area of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics for the about 15 years. He has over 9 years of experience in the area of Bioinformatics, which includes experience as a researcher, faculty member at the Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune and project manager. He is primarily responsible for building a strong bioinformatics team at C-DAC and presently directs projects taken up by the team. His major area of expertise, is in the use of high performance parallel computers for biological research. His unique strength is in the form of good knowledge of biology and parallel computing. His main research interests include, molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acids & proteins, genome sequence analysis, metabolic pathways and development of Problem Solving Environments. He is a principal investigator for funded projects and other research projects, leading to a number of publications in international journals and conferences. He is actively involved in collaborative programmes and national scientific meets. He has numerous publications, articles and invited talks to his credit. His career objective is to build an environment where much of biology could be understood using high performance parallel computers.