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Sanchit Misra   
Parallel Computing Lab, Intel, Bangalore, India
 
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  Bio
Sanchit Misra is currently a research scientist at Intel’s Parallel Computing Lab, Bengaluru, India. His research interests include high-performance computational biology, machine learning, parallel algorithms, and application driven architecture research. He received a PhD degree in computer engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University in 2011.

  Education and Experience
  • Research Scientist, Intel, Parallel Computing Lab, Bangalore, India (December, 2011 - Present)

  • PhD, Electical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA (September, 2006 - October, 2011)

  • Summer Intern, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA (June, 2010 - September, 2010)

  • Summer Intern, Intel, Hillsboro, OR, USA (June, 2007 - September, 2007)

  • Software Engineer, Trilogy, Bangalore, India (July, 2005 - July, 2006)

  • Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (July, 2001 - May, 2005)

  • Summer Intern, Compsys team, INRIA, ENS, Lyon, France (May, 2004 - July, 2004)

  Research Interests
  • High Performance Computational Biology

  • Application of Machine Learning to computational biology, in particular, various Omics.

  • Application Driven Architecture Research

  • Parallel Algorithms

  • High Performance Computing

  Publications
  • Vasimuddin Md, Sanchit Misra, Heng Li, Srinivas Aluru. Efficient Architecture-Aware Acceleration of BWA-MEM for Multicore Systems. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2019.

  • Chirag Jain, Sanchit Misra, Haowen Zhang, Alexander Dilthey, Srinivas Aluru. Accelerating Sequence Alignment to Graphs. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2019.

  • Tony Pan, Sanchit Misra, Srinivas Aluru. Optimizing High Performance Distributed Memory Parallel Hash Tables for DNA k-mer Counting. Supercomputing, 2018.

  • Sanchit Misra, Tony Pan, Kanak Mahadik, George Powley, Priya N. Vaidya, Md Vasimuddin, Srinivas Aluru. Performance Extraction and Suitability Analysis of Multi- and Many-core Architectures for Next Generation Sequencing Secondary Analysis. Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT, 2018).

  • Md Vasimuddin, Sanchit Misra, Srinivas Aluru. Identification of Significant Computational Building Blocks through Comprehensive Deep Dive of NGS Secondary Analysis Methods. BioRxiv 301903.

  • Jing Zhang, Sanchit Misra, Hao Wang, Wuchun Feng. Eliminating irregularities of protein sequence search on multicore architectures. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2017.

  • Jing Zhang, Sanchit Misra, Hao Wang, Wuchun Feng. muBLASTP: database-indexed protein sequence search on multicore CPUs. BMC Bioinformatics. 2016; 17: 443.

  • Edmond Chow, Xing Liu, Sanchit Misra, Marat Dukhan, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Jeff R. Hammond, Yunfei Du, Xiang-Ke Liao and Pradeep Dubey. Scaling up Hartree–Fock calculations on Tianhe-2. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Volume 30 Issue 1, 2 2016, Pages 85-102.

  • Sanchit Misra, Kiran Pamnany, Srinivas Aluru. Parallel Mutual Information Based Construction of Genome-Scale Networks on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor. IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics, Volume 12, Issue 5, Sept-Oct. 1 2015.

  • Kiran Pamnany, Sanchit Misra, Md Vasimuddin, Xing Liu, Edmond Chow, Srinivas Aluru. Dtree: Dynamic task scheduling at petascale. ISC high Performance, 2015.

  • Sanchit Misra, Md Vasimuddin, Kiran Pamnany, Sriram P. Chockalingam, Yong Dong, Min Xie, Maneesha R. Aluru, Srinivas Aluru. Parallel Bayesian Network Structure Learning for Genome-scale Gene Networks. Supercomputing, 2014. Best paper finalist.

  • Sanchit Misra, Kiran Pamnany, Srinivas Aluru. Parallel Mutual Information Based Construction of Whole-genome Networks on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2014.

  • Yuhong Zhang, Sanchit Misra, Ankit Agrawal, Md Mostofa Ali Patwary, Wei-keng Liao, Zhiguang Qin, Alok Choudhary. Accelerating pairwise statistical significance estimation for local alignment by harvesting GPU's power. BMC Bioinformatics. 2012; 13(Suppl 5): S3.

  • Yuhong Zhang, Md Mostofa Ali Patwary, Sanchit Misra, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, Zhiguang Qin, Alok Choudhary. Par-psse: Software for pairwise statistical significance estimation in parallel for local sequence alignment. International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, Volume 6, Issue 5, March 2012, Pages 200-208.

  • Ankit Agrawal, Sanchit Misra, Ramanathan Narayanan, Lalith Polepeddi, Alok Choudhary. Lung cancer survival prediction using ensemble data mining on SEER data. Scientific Programming, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-42.

  • Ankit Agrawal, Sanchit Misra, Daniel Honbo, Alok Choudhary. Parallel pairwise statistical significance estimation of local sequence alignment using message passing interface library. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 23, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2269-2279.

  • Yuhong Zhang, Md Mostofa Ali Patwary, Sanchit Misra, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, Alok N Choudhary. Enhancing parallelism of pairwise statistical significance estimation for local sequence alignment. Proceedings of HiPC Workshops, Workshop on Hybrid Multi-core Computing, pp. 1-8, Dec. 2011.

  • Ankit Agrawal, Sanchit Misra, Ramanathan Narayanan, Lalith Polepeddi, Alok N Choudhary. A lung cancer outcome calculator using ensemble data mining on SEER data. Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics, BIOKDD'11.

  • Ankit Agrawal, Sanchit Misra, Alok N Choudhary, Karl Bilimoria. Poster: Risk prediction for post-operative adverse outcomes in colorectal cancer surgery. IEEE 1st International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), 2011.

  • Ankit Agrawal, Sanchit Misra, Ramanathan Narayanan, Lalith Polepeddi, Alok Choudhary. Poster: A lung cancer mortality risk calculator based on SEER data. IEEE 1st International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), 2011.

  • Yuhong Zhang, Sanchit Misra, Daniel Honbo, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary. Efficient pairwise statistical significance estimation for local sequence alignment using GPU. IEEE 1st International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), 2011.

  • Alok N Choudhary, Daniel Honbo, Prabhat Kumar, Berkin Ozisikyilmaz, Sanchit Misra, Gokhan Memik. Accelerating data mining workloads: current approaches and future challenges in system architecture design. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 41-54, 2011.

  • Sanchit Misra, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary. Anatomy of a hash-based long read sequence mapping algorithm for next generation DNA sequencing. Bioinformatics, Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 189-195, 2010.

  • Ankit Agrawal, Sanchit Misra, Daniel Honbo, and Alok Choudhary. MPIPairwiseStatSig: Parallel Pairwise Statistical Significance Estimation of Local Sequence Alignment. In ECMLS proceedings of HPDC 2010, pp. 470-476.

  • Sanchit Misra, Ramanathan Narayanan, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary and Simon Lin. pFANGS: Parallel High Speed Sequence Mapping for Next Generation 454-Roche Sequencing Reads. In Proc. Ninth IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (IPDPS 2010), April, 2010, Atlanta, GA.

  • Sanchit Misra, Ramanathan Narayanan, Simon Lin and Alok Choudhary. FANGS: High Speed Sequence Mapping for Next Generation Sequencing Reads. In Proceedings of ACM Symposium of Applied Computing (ACM SAC), March 22-26, 2010, Sierre, Switzerland.

  • Ramanathan Narayanan, Sanchit Misra, Simon Lin and Alok Choudhary. Mining Protein Interactions from Text using Convolution Kernels. In AIBDM 09, held in conjunction with Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (PAKDD 2009), April 27-30, 2009, Bangkok.

  • Sanchit Misra, Ramanathan Narayanan, Simon Lin and Alok Choudhary. HiSSS: A High Speed Sequence Search Method for Next Generation Sequences. In Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)[Poster] , Toronto, Canada, July 2008.

  • Ramanathan Narayanan, Sanchit Misra, Simon Lin and Alok Choudhary. Mining Protein Interactions from Text using Convolution Kernels. In Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)[Poster] , Toronto, Canada, July 2008.

  • Sanchit Misra, Ramanathan Narayanan, Daniel Honbo and Alok Choudhary. (Book Chapter) "High Performance Distributed Data Mining". Next Generation of Data Mining , 2008, CRC Press.

  • D. Bild, S. Misra, T. Chantem, P. Kumar, R. P. Dick, X. S. Hu, L. Shang, and A. Choudhary, Temperature-Aware Test Scheduling for Multiprocessor Systems-On-Chip. In Proceedings International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, Nov. 2008.

  • A. Das, S. Misra, S. Joshi, J. Zambreno, G. Memik and A. Choudhary. An Efficient FPGA Implementation of Principal Component Analysis based Network Intrusion Detection System. In Proceedings of Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Munich, Germany, March 2008.

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