M Karthikeyan's Biography

M Karthikeyan, Chemoinformatics Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory

Muthukumarasamy Karthikeyan obtained his Bachelors and Masters degree in Chemistry from Pondicherry University and Ph.D. (Chemistry) from National Chemical Laboratory (University of Pune) in the area of Photoinduced Electron Transfer based Organic Synthesis. After two years employment in Armament Research Development Establishment (Ministry of Defence, DRDO) Pune , he started his research career in 2000 at CSIR-National chemical laboratory, Pune and since then he is pursuing his research in Chemoinformatics especially in the area of high performance computing for molecular informatics and it application in lead identification and lead discovery. In 2007 he organized first International Conference on Chemoinformatics (http://moltable.ncl.res.in/ ) . He has published few key papers in chemoinformatics handling large scale molecular data including entire Pubchem repository (ChemStar) which currently holds 70+ million entries and harvesting chemical information from Google (ChemXtreme) with 10+ billion web pages. He is also the recipient of BOYSCAST Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, and Longterm Overseas Associateship from Department of Biotechnology. He is a regular visiting scientist/professor at University of Northcarolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His current interest includes development of open-source tools in visual computing for molecular informatics, hybrid computing (distributed, parallel, cloud) using multicore CPU-GPU processors as a web-based problem solving environment in chemical informatics.