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

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.

Administrative Assignments:

• Assistant Zonal Officer of PGDCA (Regular) Examination, 2015, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh

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, 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)
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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)
9. 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.

JOURNALS:

1. 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
2. P Mahanta, S Deb, D K Bhattacharyya and M A Dutta, Subspace Module Extraction from MI-Based Co-expression Network, in the IJBRA, Inderscience, vol 12, 2016.
3. 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.
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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)
7. 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