Sankar Basu
Assistant Professor at Asutosh College
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Top SchoolSankar Basu is an Assistant Professor and computational biophysicist with a decade of interdisciplinary experience bridging protein structure, molecular evolution, and graph theory. Trained with a PhD from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and multiple postdoctoral stints across Europe and the USA, he has produced computational tools and peer-reviewed methods for protein docking, membrane embedding, and electrostatics (e.g., contributions to DelPhiPKa, ProQDock, DockQ). His work uniquely blends algorithmic graph-coloring insights with biophysical modeling—once contributing a novel heuristic toward a long-standing graph-coloring problem while probing protein packing and disorder-to-order transitions. Based in Kolkata, he teaches microbiology while maintaining active collaborations with ULB Brussels and a public code presence on GitHub focused on protein and drug design. Colleagues value his ability to translate deep theoretical ideas into practical software and validation metrics for structural biology.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSc, Microbiology (Hons), Chemistry, Mathematics, BSc, Microbiology (Hons), Chemistry, Mathematics at BidhanNagar Collage, Kolkata (CU)MSc, Biochemistry, MSc, Biochemistry at Calcutta UniversityPost Msc, Biophysical Sciences, Post Msc, Biophysical Sciences at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, KolkataHigher Secondary, Maths, Phys, Chem, Bio, Eng, Beng, Higher Secondary, Maths, Phys, Chem, Bio, Eng, Beng at Metropolitan Institution (Main), KolkataMaster of Science - MS, Biochemistry, A++, Master of Science - MS, Biochemistry, A++ at University of CalcuttaSecondary, Maths, Physical Science, Life Science, History, Geography, English, Bengali, Additional: Biology, Secondary, Maths, Physical Science, Life Science, History, Geography, English, Bengali, Additional: Biology at Metropolitan Institution (Main)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (4)
evaluation9
robotics8
verification6
drake4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nemo8130/SARAMA-updated
Dec 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
bjornwallner/proteus
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 13 pushes in 1 day
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