Farhat Habib's Biography

Farhat Habib, Scientist, IISER

Dr. Farhat Habib is a Scientist at the Center of Excellence in Epigenetics at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune. His work focuses on developing tools for analyzing next generation sequencing datasets and biological big data. He has worked on the assembly of the Hydra vulgaris genome. His other research interests are in genotype-phenotype correlation, comparative genomics, phylogeny, computational modeling, and sequence analysis. Dr. Habib completed his PhD from Ohio State University in Physics and Biomedical Informatics and has a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.