Education:

1. Bachelor’s Degree: BCA (Dibrugarh University)
2. Master’s Degree: MCA (Tezpur University)
3. Ph.D.: Tezpur University

Professional Experience:

• Part time Faculty in DOEAC program, Tezpur University since August 2010 to August 2014.

• Research Associate in DST funded project entitled “Beyond Clustering Gene Expression Data” in collaboration with ISI Kolkata from November 2011 to December 2013
• Assistant Professor, Centre for Computer Science and Application from September, 2014

Areas of Interest/ Specialization:

• Data Mining, Machine Intelligence, Computational Biology

Projects/ Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences:

1. Three-days Workshop on LaTeX" organized by the Centre for Computer Studies, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh held from 4^th-6^th January, 2016.
2. Resource Person in the One-day workshop on "Outcome Based Learning for Introduction to Computing" organized by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Dibrugarh University under Google’s CS4HS Award Program on 27/02/2016.
3. Three-days Workshop on Teaching Skills" organized by the Centre for Computer Studies, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh held from 18^th–20^th March, 2016.
4. UGC ­Approved Short­Term Professional Development Programme Under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching,  on ‘Implementation of NEP­2020 for University and College Teachers’ held from October 27­November 05, 2022 and obtained 'A+' Grade

Administrative Assignments:

• Assistant Zonal Officer of PGDCA (Regular) Examination, 2015, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh
• Assistant Zonal Officer of PGDCA  Annuel(Regular) Examination, 2019, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh
• Warden, Joymoti Chatri Nivas, Dibrugarh University from 2020
• Warden, Padma Kumari Gohain Women's Hostel, Dibrugarh University from 2020

Awards and Achievements:

1. Best Paper Award  in IEEE Int'nl Conference on Accessibility to Digital World (ICADW 2016), Guwahati, 2016

Research Publications:

CONFERENCES:

1. P Mahanta, H A Ahmed, D K Bhattacharyya and J K Kalita, Discretization in Gene Expression Data Analysis: A Survey, in the ACM Proc of CCSEIT 2012, pp 69-75, 2012.
2. H A Ahmed, P Mahanta and D K Bhattacharyya, Finding Gene Coherent Patterns using PATSUB+, in the ACM Proc of ICACCI 2012, Chennai, India
3. P Mahanta, D K Bhattacharyya and A Ghosh, A subspace Module Extraction Technique for Gene Expression Data, In the Proc. of in PREMI, LNCS 8251 pp 635-640, 2013
4. H A Ahmed, P Mahanta and D K Bhattacharyya, Negative Correlation Aided Network Module Extraction, in the Elsevier Procedia Technology, vol 6, pp 658-665, 2012
5. H A Ahmed, P Mahanta, D K Bhattacharyya, A Ghosh and J K Kalita, Intersected Coexpressed Subcube Miner: An effective triclustering algorithm in the IEEE Proc of World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT’11), pp 846-851, Mumbai, December, 2011. (10.1109/WICT.2011.6141358)
6. Mahanta, Priyakshi and Bhattacharyya, Dhruba K. and Ghosh, Ashish, PDComp: An Effective PPI Complex Finding Method, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies, 2016.
7. P Mahanta, N Devi, J Kalita and D K Bhattacharyya, A Gene Ontology based approach to Protein Complex Detection, in the IEEE Int'nl Conference on Accessibility to Digital World (ICADW 2016), Guwahati, 2016
8. P Mahanta, H A Ahmed, D K Bhattacharyya and J K Kalita,"Triclustering in gene expression data analysis: a selected survey", 2nd National Conference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science,IEEE, 2011

JOURNALS:

1. P Mahanta, S Deb, D K Bhattacharyya and M A Dutta, Subspace Module Extraction from MI-Based Co-expression Network, in the International Journal Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Inderscience, vol 12, 2016.
2. H A Ahmed, P Mahanta, D K Bhattacharyya and J K Kalita, Module Extraction from Subspace Co-expression Network in the Int’nl journal of Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (NetMAHIB), December 2012, Volume 1, Issue 4, pp 183-195, Springer, (DOI 10.1007/s13721-012-0018-2)
3. H A Ahmed, P Mahanta, D K Bhattacharyya and J K Kalita, Autotuned Multilevel Clustering of Gene Expression Data, in the American Journal of Bioinformatics Research, Vol. 2, No. 5, September 2012
4. H A Ahmed, P Mahanta, D K Bhattacharyya and J K Kalita, Shifting-and-scaling Correlation based Biclustering Algorithm accepted for publication in the IEEE/ACM Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2014
5. P. Mahanta, D. K. Bhattacharyya and A. Ghosh, “MIPCE: An MI-based Protein Complex Extraction Technique”, Journal of Biosciences, vol. 40, no. 4, page {701---708}, 2015, Springer.
6. H. A. Ahmed, P. Mahanta, D. K. Bhattacharyya, and J. K. Kalita, “Shifting-and-scaling Correlation based Biclustering Algorithm”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), vol11, 6, page {1239--1252}, 2014
7. P. Mahanta, H. A. Ahmed, D. K. Bhattacharyya and A. Ghosh, “FUMET: A Fuzzy Network Module Extraction Technique for Gene Expression Data”, Journal of Biosciences, Springer, vol. 39, 3, page {351--364}, 2014
8. P. Mahanta, H. A. Ahmed, D. K. Bhattacharyya, and Jugal K Kalita, “An effective method for network module extraction from microarray data”, BMC Bioinformatics, vol 13, page s4, 2012. (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/13/S13/S4)
9. H A Ahmed, P Mahanta, D K Bhattacharyya and J K Kalita, Module Extraction from Subspace Co-expression Network, accepted for publication in the Int’nl Journal of Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (Springer), 2012
10.  Mahanta, P., Choudhury, G. A., & Dey, T. (2018). "An effective method to estimate missing value for heterogonous dataset ". International Journal of Knowledge Based Computer Systems, 6(2), 8-22.
11.  Mr. Pranjal Kumar Bora, Dr. Arun Kumar Baruah, Dr. Priyakshi Mahanta. . Property Based Amino Acid Network Analysis. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 29(05), 9023-9036.  http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJAST/article/view/18748, (2020)
12. . Neog Bora, P., Baruah, V. J., Borkotokey, S., Gogoi, L., Mahanta, P., Sarmah, A., & Moretti, S. (2020)." Identifying the Salient Genes in Microarray Data: A Novel Game Theoretic Model for the Co-Expression Network. Diagnostics, 10(8), 586
13. Rizwan Rehman, Kaustuvmoni Bordoloi, Kankana Dutta, Nomi Borah, Priyakhi Mahanta, "FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SPEECH DATASET FOR GENDER IDENTIFICATION: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH", Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 98(22):3449, November 2020.
14. Vishwa Jyoti Baruah, Papori Neog Bora, Bhaswati Sarmah, Priyakshi Mahanta, Ankumon Sarmah, Stefano Moretti, Rajnish Kumar, Surajit Borkotokey,"Game-theoretic link relevance indexing on genome-wide expression dataset identifies putative salient genes with potential etiological and diapeutics role in colorectal cancer", Scientific Report,12(1), Nature, 2022
    

1. Data Mining and  Data warehousing (MCA)
2. Pattern Classification(MCA)
3. Operating Systems (MCA)
4. Advanced DBMS( MCA)
5. Formal Language and Automata (BCA)
6. Database Management System( BCA)
7.  Relational Database  Management system( PGDCA)
8. Data Communication and Computer Network( PGDCA)