About

I am a PhD researcher in the Department of Bioinformatics at the University of North Bengal, advised by Dr. Chiranjib Sarkar (Computational Systems Biology Lab). My research focuses on bioinformatics and computational biology, specifically deep learning methods for biological sequence-based prediction and generative model development. Experience includes neural network training, transfer learning with pretrained models, and analysis of large-scale biological datasets. Current work includes autoregressive generative modeling of biological sequences, with ongoing exploration of diffusion-based approaches for biological data.

Publications

Sarkar, D., & Sarkar, C. (2026). ARACoFusion: Uncertainty-aware calibrated deep learning for protein-protein interaction network prediction in Arabidopsis thaliana. bioRxiv (preprint), 2026.05.22.727120.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.22.727120

Sarkar, D., & Sarkar, C. (2025). AttnSeq-PPI: Enhancing protein-protein interaction network prediction using transfer learning-driven hybrid attention. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and Proteomics, 141102.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbapap.2025.141102

Package 'EGRNi' — Gene Regulatory Network Inference

Sarkar, C.; Sarkar, D.; Parsad, R.; Mishra, D.

CRAN (R package), 2022

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Software

Deep-Interact Studio — Interactive web platform for building, training, and comparing custom deep learning models for protein-protein, drug-target, RNA-protein, and protein-DNA interaction prediction, with integrated interpretability.

AttnSeq-PPI — Sequence-only protein-protein interaction prediction using hybrid attention and transfer learning from pretrained protein language models.

ARACoFusion-PPI — Arabidopsis thaliana-specific PPI prediction and interaction network analysis tool.

Skills

PyTorch · Hugging Face Transformers · Large Language Models (LLMs) · Fine-tuning (LoRA / QLoRA) · Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) · Protein Language Models · Computational Biology · Generative Models in Biology · Docker · Git · React, Vite, Tailwind CSS · Flask / FastAPI

Background

Education

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics

University of North Bengal, India

Advisor: Dr. Chiranjib Sarkar · Deep learning for PPI network prediction

M.Sc. in Botany (Biochemistry)

University of North Bengal, India

First Class · 77.25%

B.Sc. (Hons.) in Botany

Ananda Chandra College, University of North Bengal

First Class · 63.50%

* expected

Experience

PhD Research Scholar

Dept. of Bioinformatics, University of North Bengal

Deep learning for sequence-based PPI prediction; attention-based hybrid models with pretrained protein language models; deployed web platforms for model inference.

Awards & Qualifications

  • CSIR-NET Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) — Life Sciences · June 2021 · All India Rank 216
  • GATE — Life Sciences (XL) — Qualified · 2022

Grants & Computing Resources

  • IndiaAI Compute Initiative (2025)

    Awarded GPU cloud compute (NVIDIA L4) under the IndiaAI Mission for the project Deep learning-based framework for protein-protein interaction network prediction (Project ID: P1-S2025070964, Sep 2025 - Aug 2026). Funded under CSIR-UGC SRF Fellowship.

  • Google TRC (TPU Research Cloud) Award (2025)

    Granted free access to Google Cloud TPUs (v4, v5e, v6e) for machine learning research.

Talks & Presentations

A Webtool for Transfer Learning Based Protein-Protein Interaction Network Prediction Using Hybrid Attention

Anusandhan 2025 — WILEY Sponsored Oral Presentation (SARANSH)

Bose Institute, Kolkata, India · March 7, 2025 Oral