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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success...Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931).


I am interested in projects that are cross-disciplinary between Mathematics, Molecular Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and related fields. My research focuses on the areas where these fields meet in an elegant way. I strongly believe in applications and utility based research.

General Fields:

Information Processing in Molecular Biology and Chemistry
Computational Systems Biology
Computational Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Bio-molecular (DNA, Membrane, Cell) and Quantum computing, P system
Combinatorial Group Testing and its applications to biology
Multi-user coding and information theory
Coding theory and Cryptology
Algorithms
Combinatorial Designs and its applications to computer science
Number Theory, Algebra, Graph Theory and its applications
Cellular Automata and its applications



• Some Current Project (General) Directions



1. Information Processsing in molecular biology/ Molecular Self-Assembly
2. Quantum Computing/ Quantum Error-Correction/ Quantum Computer Algorithms
3. Biocomputation /DNA Computing / DNA Computer Algorithms / Theory of Formal Languages/ Applications of Engineering to Biology /Synthetic Biology/ Computational Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics
4. Theoretical Computer Science/ Cellular Automata / Non-standard Computing Models/ Collision-Based Computing/ Brownian Computing/ Algorithmic Information Theory
5. Wireless Communications / MIMO Channels/ Adhoc Wireless Networks/ Wireless Sensor Networks/ Space-time Codes/ Multi-User Communications / Network Coding
6. Cryptology / Public Key and Private Key Cryptography/ Elliptic-Curve Cryptosystems/ NTRU / CTRU/ Network Security/ Wireless Security /Ciphers
7. Supply Chain Management/ E-commerce/ Semiconductor Manufacturing/ Modeling
8. Codes over finite rings and finite fields

Some Current Specific Problem Areas


• DNA self assembly, Protien and Peptide self assembly, RNA self assembly, PAH self assembly
• RNA and DNA Folding
• Molecular Docking
• Protein Folding
• Applications of Graph Theory, Computational Geometry and Algorithms to Proteins and Drug Design
• Gene Networks
• Quantum Error Correction
• Biological Coding and Information Theory

Note: This is just an overview. If you want to discuss more or need more specific details about any of my current and future research problems please write (email) to mankg @ computer . org (email prefer) or call me at 91-79-30510549. The updated list of publications etc is on my home page at http://www.mankg.com