Sanatan Panda 213300004

Biosciences and Bioengineering M.Tech.

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Gender: Male
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering DOB: 19/08/1998

Examination University Institute Year CPI / %

Post Graduation IIT Bombay IIT Bombay 2023 9.38
Graduation NIT NIT Rourkela 2021 8.14
Graduation Specialization: Biomedical Engineering

RESEARCH

• In silico RNA sequence analysis in breast cancer patients

(M.Tech. Project, Advisor: Prof. P Tayalia) (May’22-)
◦ Objective: To understand the role of lamin gene in breast cancer
◦ Processed RNA Sequence raw data to construct gene expression matrix using various statistical methods
◦ Analysing lamin related observations through differential gene expression, weighted gene co-expression network
analysis using dimension reduction (PCA, tSNE), hierarchical clustering & survival analysis
◦ Aiming to interpret the impact of lamin gene expression on cancer prognosis & validate it in vivo

• QSAR model for screening drug molecules to prevent cardio-toxicity

(B.Tech. Project, Advisor: Prof. Sivaraman J) (Jul’20-Apr’21)
◦ Developed a classification based machine learning model to predict cardio-toxicity of new drug molecules
◦ Acquired an application level understanding on various classification based ML models & molecular descriptors

WORK EXPERIENCE
• Business Analyst (Dcube Analytics, Bangalore) (Jun’21-Dec’21)
◦ Profile Summary: In Pharma, using Real World Evidence(RWE) to analyse market conditions, prescriber prescrip-
tion patterns, patient behavioural patterns and developing targeting strategies.
◦ Experience in Data Wrangling, Data Preparation and Data Engineering in SQL, Tableau Prep Builder & PySpark.
◦ Project 1: Enbrel – Classification of Prescribers into different categories for targeting purpose
◦ Summary: Built a dashboard to classify prescribers of Enbrel Drug into three categories(Growers, Loyalist, Decliners)
based on their prescription patterns to employ different marketing strategies for Prescribers.
◦ Built a data pipeline and converted the codes to PEP8 format for the entire project.
◦ Project 2: ELAMC – Development & enhancement of Sales, forecasting & customer analytics dashboards
◦ Summary: Developed automated customer analytics dashboards for sales team, brand team & commercial lead-
ership team in ICON region having single click system with zero maintenance.
◦ Enhanced and refreshed Sales Summary, Volume Analytics, Prescription reports; also helped GDnA DevOps
teams to add new fields in the existing database aligning with business needs.

INTERNSHIP & TRAINING

• Summer Intern (Drug Discovery against COVID 19, CSIR) (Nov’21-June’22)
◦ Executed in silico screening & simulatiion of 500 potential small molecules less than 500 Da from herbal sources
◦ Analyzed Protein-Ligand interactions using docking visualization & analysis software
◦ Finally evaluated 100 potential compounds against the COVID 19 based on docking core, interactions & ADMET
properties
• Innovation Think Tank Participant (Siemens Healthineers, Bangalore) (Nov’20-April’21)
◦ From ideation phase, got selected to participate with top 50 teams in India to analyze multi modality imaging
techniques & its market growth; also designed a prototype of 3D reconstruction model from MRI Image data
◦ Worked for 6 months in development phase to develop an integrated public health repository with 2 teammates
• Summer of Idea Participant (Infosys, Bangalore) (Sept’20-Jan’21)
◦ Got selected to participate in this brainstorming two months program to learn the industry automation
◦ Conceptualized a design to detect the false alarm from patient monitors raised due to erroneous outputs from
wearable device
• Biomedical Trainee (Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar) (Apr’19-Jun’19)
◦ Understood working principles, calibration procedures, breakdown factors & resolving them for various hospital
equipment such as patient monitors, dialysis, MRI & CT Scan systems etc.
◦ Worked for designing a dynamic dashboard to keep track of purchased, defected, procured & other instruments
 ◦ Learned hospital management system, HIPAA & FDA’s Medical Device Regulation Acts etc.

TECHNICAL AND ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• ECG data analysis (Self Project) (Jul’20-Aug’20)
◦ Interpreted the ECG signal by developing simple algorithms to denoise the data, detect various intervals & peaks
• X-Ray Image processing (Self Project) (Sept’19-Nov’19)
◦ Analysed raw X-Ray images to interpret clinically important observations through filtering the image by various
image processing algorithms
• Smart Low-Cost sensor system for patient bed (Self Project) (Oct’20-Jan’21)
◦ Designed a low cost and minimal power consuming sensor system to prevent professionals & elatives to stay at
proper distance from patient, useful for diseases like COVID or Monkey-pox
◦ This sensor system can be compatible for multi-purpose applications, e.g. tilting the bed for comfort of patient
MAJOR COURSES

• Bioinformatics • Biologics
• Biostatistics • Economics for Public Policy
• Computer aided drug discovery • Fundamentals of IPR
CERTIFICATIONS & GUIDED PROJECTS
• Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging (Certification course – Coursera)
◦ Uncovered Neuroimaging principles and their real-life clinical applications to understand medical imaging meth-
ods such as functional MRI, Diffusion Weighted MRI Diffusion Tensor Imaging etc.
• Whole genome sequencing of bacterial genomes - tools and applications (Guided Project– Coursera)
◦ Implemented genome sequencing tools to understand generation of sequencing data & post processing such as
normalisation.
• Genomic Data Science and Clustering (Bioinformatics V) (Certification course – Coursera)
◦ Understood Gene expression matrix, K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering & expectation maximization etc.
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
• Department Placement Coordinator (Biomedical Engineering, IIT Bombay) (July’22-)
◦ Elected unanimously to represent the interest of department students in the Institute Placement Committee
◦ Assisting in the placement of 1900+ students by working as a liaison between the placement office and the students
◦ Strategized Plan of Action, including 34 preparatory activities to enhance the placement preparation of the stu-
dents
◦ Responsible for the resume verification of 120+ students and expertise company pitching for maximum recruit-
ment
• Dean’s Nominee (Film Music Society, NIT Rourkela) (May’19-Jun’21)
◦ As the Dean’s Nominated Convener, member of the apex body, responsible for leading a team of 29 core organizing
team members, 37 associate members and 150+ volunteers.
◦ Redrafted and executed 60 events, 9 workshops & introduced a new event and took two events online, which
resulted in a 31% increase in participation over the previous year.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Programming and Scripting Languages: Python, SQL, R, MATLAB
• Software & Tools: Microsoft Excel, Tableau, RStudio, Qliksense, AutoDock, PyMol, PowerBI, NI Multisim, MGL tools
• R Libraries: WGCNA, DEseq, Dplyr, Ggplot, Bioconductor, Seurat
• Core Skills: Computational Drug Discovery, In silico molecule screening, Sequencing, Sequence Analysis, Medical
Image Processing, Pharma market data analysis, QSAR modeling
• Data lakes worked with: IMS LaaD, IQVIA, DRG, ITM, TTM
• Work Streams:Patient level model, Sales analytics, Forecasting, Customer analytics Administration

SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
• Secured AIR 46 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) – 2021 in BM paper (2021)
• Was awarded with free laptop for securing 99.9 percentile marks in 12th Board (2016)
• Awarded with a scholarship of INR 1.2 Lakhs in total for 4 years from Foundation for Excellence for meritorious
performance in state board intermediate exam (2017-2021)
• 2nd Runners-up in state level Vedic Mathematics Quiz (2013)
• Secured 4th State rank in State level Scholarship Examination organized by Govt. of odisha (2012)

INTEREST AND HOBBIES

• Swimming, Making Cocktails, Remixing Music and DJing