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Applications for Project Research Scientist-II in SCIS

Applications for Project Research Scientist-II in SCIS

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School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Applications are invited for a Project Research Scientist-II@Rs 67,000+27% HRA per month (one positions for three months period) in the ICMR funded project on "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning based approaches for modeling drug resistance, epidemological trends and precision diagnosis of Tuberculosis in India"

Candidates must hold a Ph. D. degree in Bioinformatics area at the time of interview and should have strong skills in the field of Whole genome sequencing, variant calling, structural bioinformatics, large scale transcriptome analysis and machine learning with proven record of software development in that direction. 

Appointment will be made for three month and may be extended based on performance and project circumstances.

Please apply online at https://forms.gle/8vvXDhoiBgMMHtjJ6

Deadline to apply: March 2, 2025

Contact for queries: 

Project PI: 

Professor Shandar Ahmad,

School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, 

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Email: shandar@jnu.ac.in  

(Please refrain from persuasive messages and frivolous queries)

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.