Affiliation: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Dr. Saurav Mallik is currently working as Research Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Arizona, USA. Previously, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA for more than three years (2019-2022), the Center of Precision Health, Department of School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA for one and half year (2018-2019), and in the Division of Bio-statistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA for more than one year (2017-2018). He obtained his PhD degree in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (C.S.E.) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2017 while his PhD works carried out in Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India. He worked previously at ISI, Kolkata, India as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in DST (Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, Govt. of India)-sponsored Swarnajayanti project and as a Visiting Scientist (VS) for a total of more than 3 years (2011-2013 & 2015-2016). He also worked in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India as UGC (University Grant Commission, Govt. of India) Research Fellow for 2 years (2014-2015 & 2016-2017). He is the recipient of Research Associate-ship (RA) from CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), MHRD, Govt. of India in 2017. He also worked as assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in Mallabhum Institute of Technology, Bisnupur, WB, India (currently on leave). He is also recipient of "Emerging Researcher In Bioinformatics" award from Bioclues & BIRD Award steering committee, India (http://bioclues.org/) in the year 2020 and "Young scientist award" on “International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine" (ISAO 2021) from a non-profit organization, VDGOOD Professional Association of Scientists, Engineers and Doctors, India in the year 2021. His research areas include data mining, computational biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics and machine learning.