Adjunct Professor
Debarka Sengupta
Faculty of Health,
Tier 1 Research Centre - Health (U91),
Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health
Biography
Debarka is an Associate Professor in the departments of Computational Biology and Computer Science at IIIT-Delhi and the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Debarka did his doctoral research and postdoctoral research at the Indian Statistical Institute, and the Genome Institute of Singapore respectively. His group began single-cell genomics research in India and published several breakthrough findings, including the discovery of a rare subtype of pars tuberalis lineage in mouse brain. His current research focuses on early cancer detection using liquid biopsy techniques and universal, numeric representation of human variants. He is a recipient of the prestigious INSPIRE Faculty Award. He serves on the editorial boards of Communications Biology, PLOS One, and Scientific Reports.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Health,
Tier 1 Research Centre - Health (U91),
Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health
Research field
Other Medical and Health Sciences
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Professional memberships and associations
- Member, Global Burden of Disease Collaborator Network (Current)
- Member, Global Consortium for Chemocensory Research (Current)
- The Brookings India NFHS-4 Consortium (2018)
Experience
- Associate Professor, Depts. of Computational Biology, Computer Science, and Centre for Infosys Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (Jan’17 – Present)
- Associate Professor (Adjunct), Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (Aug’20 – Present)
- Head, Data Science, Circle of Life Healthcare Pvt. Ltd (Feb’19 – Dec’20)
- INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (Jul’16 – Jan’17)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Genome Institute of Singapore (Dec’13 – Jul’16)
- Senior Data Scientist, CoreCompete Pvt. Ltd. (Mar’13 – Dec’13)
- (Jr. and Sr.) Research Fellow, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India (Mar’09 – Mar’13)
- Systems Engineer, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. (Oct’07 – Mar’09)
- Software Engineer Infosys Ltd. (Jul’06 – Oct’07)
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Debarka, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).