Ankit Agrawal

I have graduated from ISU and am now a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.

 

		Department of Computer Science Iowa State University   PhD Advisor: Dr. Xiaoqiu Huang
E-mail: ankitag@iastate.edu, ankitag@cs.iastate.edu		Office: B03, Atanasoff Hall Mailing Address: 226 Atanasoff Hall, Ames, IA, 50011-1041, USA

About Me

I was a Graduate Student in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, working with Dr. Xiaoqiu Huang on developing computer programs to solve bioinformatics problems.

In my undergraduate days at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, I worked under the guidance of Dr. Ankush Mittal.

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Research Interests

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Data Mining, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing.

 

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Iowa State University, USA. 2006-2009.
• B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA. August 2002 - May 2006

 

Academic Achievements

• Research Excellence Award, at ISU, 2009.
• Graduate and Professional Student Senate Peer Research Award for Spring 2009 at ISU (a university-
  wide award based on research conducted at ISU), 2009.
• Graduating topper of 2006 batch of the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, IIT Roorkee, 2006.
• Institute Silver Medal for obtaining the highest C.G.P.A. (9.43/10) amongst the students undergraduating in B.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) at IIT Roorkee, 2006.
• Institute Silver Medal for Best Project in B. Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) at IIT Roorkee, 2006.

 

Representative Publications

• Ankit Agrawal, Sanchit Misra, Daniel Honbo, and Alok Choudhary, "Parallel Pairwise Statistical Significance Estimation of Local Sequence Alignment Using MPI Library", In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley-Blackwell publishers, 2011, to appear.

• Ankit Agrawal and Xiaoqiu Huang, "Pairwise Statistical Significance of Local Sequence Alignment Using Sequence-Specific and Position-Specific Substitution Matrices", In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics,  vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 194-205, Sept. 2011.

• Sanchit Misra, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, and Alok Choudhary, "Anatomy of a Hash-based Long Read Sequence Mapping Algorithm for Next Generation DNA Sequencing", In Bioinformatics 2011, Vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 189-195 (first published online November 18, 2010 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq648).

• Ankit Agrawal, Ankush Mittal, Rahul Jain and Raghav Takkar, "Fuzzy-Adaptive-Thresholding-Based Exon Prediction", In International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, IJCBDD, 2010, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 311-333.

• Ankit Agrawal and Xiaoqiu Huang, "Pairwise Statistical Significance of Local Sequence Alignment Using Multiple Parameter Sets and Empirical Justification of Parameter Set Change Penalty". In BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 (Suppl 3): S1, DOI doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S3-S1

• Ankit Agrawal and Xiaoqiu Huang, "PSIBLAST_PairwiseStatSig: Reordering PSI-BLAST Hits Using Pairwise Statistical Significance", In Bioinformatics, 2009, DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp089.

• Ankit Agrawal, Volker Brendel and Xiaoqiu Huang, Pairwise Statistical Significance and Empirical Determination of Effective Gap Opening Penalties for Protein Local Sequence Alignment, In International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, IJCBDD, 2008, vol. 1 no. 4, pp. 347-367.

• Ankit Agrawal and Ankush Mittal, A Dynamic Time-Lagged Correlation Based Method to Learn Multi-Time Delay Gene Networks, In Enformatika, vol. 9, November 2005, ISSN 1307-6884, pp. 167-174.

See Research section for the complete publications list