The Speaker Dr. Vijayraghavan Sundararajan was born in Bangalore, India in 1960. Had his basic education in Chennai (Madras). Did his Ph.D. in Physics from Anna University, Chennai in 1989. After a brief stint of post-doctoral work at Savitribai Phule Pune University, he worked as a lecturer there till March 1994. During this tenure, he visited International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy for about 14 months during 1992-93. Since April 1994 he has been working at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, (C-DAC), Pune. Currently, he is the coordinator of the scientific and Engineering Computing Group which spearheads the high performance computing applications on the PARAM machine developed by C-DAC. He was visiting associate professor at Institute of Materials Research and Centre for inter-disciplinary studies, at Sendai, Japan, for about five months during 2000-01 and later as a guest scientist at the German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg for about 15 months. His major areas of research interest are protein structure prediction multiscale modeling and simulations, applied Evolutionary computing and high performance computing. He has about 40 published research articles to his credit.
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