Background
G.P.S. Raghava is a Professor & Head at Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi), India. Before joining IIIT-Delhi in 2017, he was working as a Chief Scientist at Bioinformatics Centre, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India. He did his M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Delhi), New Delhi in 1986. He did his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics in 1996 from IMTECH, Chandigarh. He worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford university, Oxford from 1996 to 1998. Moreover, He also worked as a Bioinformatics specialist at UAMS, USA (2002-2003 & 2006) where he established bioinformatics infastructure. Prof. Raghava also worked as a visiting professor at POSTECH, South Korea in year 2004.
Scientific Contribution
Prof. Raghava is a champion of open source software and open access, all the resources develoed at his group are free for the scientific community. His group developed and maintained more than 300 software and web servers,which is the highest number in the world by a single group. These services are heavily used by scientific community, nearly 150,000 hits per day. His group has published more than 300 research papers in the reputed journals with avargae impact factor around 4.0. Most of his papers are highly cited, with a total number of citations exceeding 25,000, an h-index of 82, and an i10-index of 250, according to google scholar. In addition, his group contributed/maintained number of web based platforms that include i) CRDD, ii) OSCADD, iii) OSDDlinux, iv) GPSR Packages, v) GPSRdocker.
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Major Awards/Honours
- Sun Pharma Research Award 2018 by Sun Pharma Science Foundation
- Scientist Award 2019 by Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India
- Listed in The Worlds' Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science, 2008
- National Bioscience Award for Carrier Development, for year 2005-2006
- NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award, 2009;
- Thomson Reuters Research Excellence - India Research Front Awards, 2009
- Prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship by DST, 2010.
- Lakshmipat Singhania-IIM Lucknow National Leadership Awards 2011 (Young Leader)
- Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc)
- Fellow of Indian Academy of Science (F.A.Sc.) Banglore.
- Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (F.N.A) Delhi
