Akanksha Singh

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EDUCATION

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Master of Science in Biotechnology

Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

Bachelor of Engineering, B.E. Biotechnology

Honors: Obtained Distinction.

(Aug 2022-Dec 2024)

GPA: 3.22

(2018-2022)

EXPERIENCE

Enabling Engineering, Northeastern University Boston (24th Jan 23’ – Present) Crankless Bike Project (Multidisciplinary engineering project) Project being conducted to help the client commute in campus easily. Project intern, IBAB, Bangalore, India (21st Mar - 21st June 2022)

-Conducted final year engineering thesis under Dr. Bibha Choudhary at Institute of Bioinformatics and applied Biotechnology.

-Project and dissertation titled: Transcriptomic and Exomic analysis of Indian Ovarian cancer patient. Intern, CP Foods (Charoen Pokphand) Pvt Ltd India (1st of Sep- 4th of Oct 2021)

-Industrial training Product development team involving ready to eat poultry processed meat products. Intern, SAAHAS, Bangalore, India (1st July 2021 - 1st Oct 2021)

-Case study conducted on Udupi District in Karnataka State, India, focusing its solid waste management practice.

-Studying the trend of menstrual waste management in rural areas and conducting comparative study of emissions from landfilling and incinerating sanitary waste to conclude the choice for better alternative. Student internship Program, IIFPT (now NIFTEM), Thanjavur, India (17th May– 28th May 2021)

-Indian Institute of Food Process Technology student internship on Advances and Applications of Food process technology.

Intern, Technology informatics design endeavor (TIDE), Bangalore, India (1st April–30th June 2021)

-Creating a carbon footprint calculator for offices where a questionnaire was designed by me to find out possible emissions by employees and office infrastructure.

-Designed an operation and maintenance manual for TIDE Technologies for school children.

- Infographics designing.

Intern, ECOPARADIGM, Bangalore, India . (1st Sep - 31st Dec 2020)

-Creating a list of red listed South Indian trees for forest rejuvenation project of BM Kaval Forest.

-Worked on survey interpretation for waste segregation related project in a village named Sompura for the “Clean India Mission”. - Experimented to find possible enzymes to be added into urban wet waste to make it into compost good enough to compete with market available fertilizer

TECHNICAL SKILLS and CERTIFICATIONS:

Bioinformatics tools: Bioinformatics via Linux and Microsoft OS with the help of python, R and JAVA. CAED and MATLAB. Biotechnology wet lab and dry lab skills. Molecular docking, transcriptomic and exomic analysis, protein analysis, AutoDock, pymol, PyRx, Desmond dynamics packages, ADMET Analysis. Management Excel, Outlook, SharePoint; PowerPoint, Google Sheets & Docs, JMP for statistics, Reactor designing. Data Analysis and Visualization: Advanced Excel and JMP

-Industrial Biotechnology and Molecular Spectroscopy from University of Manchester Via Coursera (Aug and Sep 2020)

-IBM Data science course

VOLUTEERING:

-Javed Abidi Fundation.

-CiFoS, Citizens for society.

-Schneider Electric, Green Ambassador.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS and BOOK CHAPTERS

• AICTE Sponsored National e-conference on Recent trends and technologies in Biotechnology and Applied Sciences- Abstract acceptance and presented a short talk on “Probiotic development from tea fermentation for increasing immunity and the lactose intolerant”.

• Oral presentation and acceptance of abstract by international conference on drug discovery and material science, hosted by JSS College of Arts and Science, Mysuru.

• Reva University, Frontiers in Chemistry International conference CFC-2021, Oral presentation abstract selection and presentation on "Development of Probiotics from Basil brew fermentation for increasing immunity and for the lactose intolerant. Received Certificate of Appreciation for being in the top five finalists and being the youngest participant.

• Book chapter contribution for "Biological Degradation and Detoxification of Toxic Pollutants" published by DeGruyter.

• Book chapter contribution for "Microbes based approaches for the management of hazardous contaminants” published by WILEY.

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