Ganesh Bagler Explained

Ganesh Bagler
Birth Date:31 January 1977
Birth Place:Solapur, Maharashtra, India
Fields:Computational Biology

Ganesh Bagler is known for his research [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] in computational gastronomy, an emerging data science of food, flavors and health.[10] [11] By blending food with data and computation he has helped establish the foundations of this niche area.[10] Starting with the investigation of food pairing in the Indian cuisine,[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] his lab has contributed to computational gastronomy with studies on culinary fingerprints of world cuisines, culinary evolution,[17] [18] benevolent health impacts of spices,[19] and taste prediction algorithms.

Education

Ganesh Bagler was born and raised in Solapur, Maharashtra, where he completed his schooling at Sharada School and Siddheshwar High School,Solapur in the western peninsular Indian state of Maharashtra. He pursued a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Physics from Sangameshwar College, affiliated with Shivaji University, graduating in 1997. Bagler continued his academic journey at the University of Hyderabad, earning a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Computational Techniques. He later joined the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) for his doctoral studies, where his Ph.D. research focused on the application of graph theoretical models to protein structures[20] [21] . His work contributed to the understanding of assortative mixing in these models, a key observation in the field of Computational Biology. Bagler's diverse academic background laid the foundation for his pioneering work in Computational Gastronomy.[22]

Career

Ganesh Bagler's career blends academic research, teaching, and pioneering efforts in Computational Gastronomy. After earning his Ph.D. from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, where he focused on graph theoretical models of protein structures, Bagler completed postdoctoral research in computational neuroscience at the National Centre for Biological Sciences. He then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Prof. Michael Lappe's (Otto Warburg Laboratory, Bioinformatics/Structural Proteomics) group in Germany on bioinformatics and structural proteomics. Returning to India, Bagler joined the CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology as a scientist before moving to the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur as an assistant professor and later the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology. He eventually joined Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi)[23], where he holds a tenure-track position. There, he is affiliated to the Center for Computational Biology and Department of Computational Biology [24] and has been developing the Computational Gastronomy niche in his lab, the Complex Systems Laboratory.[25]

Research

Ganesh Bagler's research [26] has been rooted in investigation of complex systems,[25] primarily of biological origin: protein structure-function,[27] kinetics,[28] folding,[29] and design;[30] complex network models transportation systems;[31] molecular interactome models of complex diseases;[32] controllability of biological networks;[33] [34] in silico drug discovery;[35] [36] [37] systems biological investigation of brain networks;[38] [39] modeling and prediction of phenotypic side effects of drugs;[40] computational models of biological systems;[41] and computational gastronomy.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Science communication and outreach

Ganesh Bagler has keen interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and public outreach for communicating science.[42] He has been engaged in propagating the cause of leveraging computational gastronomy for data-driven food innovations on various platforms:[42] TEDx;[43] HasGeek's Kilter 2017;[44] Discussion Meeting on Mathematical and Statistical Explorations in Disease Modeling and Public Health at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences;[45] 7th IFCA International Chefs Congress; IIT Guwahati Research Conclave 2017; GD Goenka University Le Cordon Bleu India's iHOST 2017; Cadence Advanced Technology Talk;[46] 2nd International Meeting on Systems Medicine (Utrecht, Netherlands);[47] Food Safety and Standards Authority of India's (FSSAI) EatRight Mela; Bangalore Science Forum; and SIAL Paris Conference 2019. He has organized five editions of Computational Gastronomy Symposiums at IIIT-Delhi.[11] He conducts the 'Open Computational Gastronomy' course on Google Classroom [48]

Controversy

In April 2015, soon after his research reporting the food pairing investigation of Indian cuisine was touted as an emerging technology by the MIT Technology Review,[12] Bagler was unceremoniously removed from the position of assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur in a controversial decision.[49] The students protested against the decision of termination.[49] [50] [51] [52] Ministry of Human Resource Development constituted a three-member committee for the investigation of the matter. Subsequently, Bagler moved to Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology on a tenure track position and has graduated his PhD students [53] from Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. He has been tenured and promoted to the position of Professor[23] at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology.

Selected bibliography

Notes and References

  1. 1502.03815. Jain. Anupam. Spices form the basis of food pairing in Indian cuisine. Rakhi N K. Bagler. Ganesh. 2015. physics.soc-ph.
  2. 10.1371/journal.pone.0139539. 26430895. 4592201. Analysis of Food Pairing in Regional Cuisines of India. PLOS ONE. 10. 10. e0139539. 2015. Jain. Anupam. n k. Rakhi. Bagler. Ganesh. 2015PLoSO..1039539J. 1505.00890. free.
  3. Tuwani . Rudraksh . Wadhwa . Somin . Bagler . Ganesh . BitterSweet: Building machine learning models for predicting the bitter and sweet taste of small molecules . Scientific Reports . 9 May 2019 . 9 . 1 . 7155 . 10.1038/s41598-019-43664-y . 31073241 . 6509165 . 2019NatSR...9.7155T .
  4. Book: 10.1109/ICDEW.2018.00033 . Data-Driven Investigations of Culinary Patterns in Traditional Recipes Across the World . 2018 IEEE 34th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW) . 157–162 . 2018 . Bagler . Ganesh . Singh . Navjot . 978-1-5386-6306-6 . 1803.04343 . 4941349 .
  5. Garg . Neelansh . Sethupathy . Apuroop . Tuwani . Rudraksh . Nk . Rakhi . Dokania . Shubham . Iyer . Arvind . Gupta . Ayushi . Agrawal . Shubhra . Singh . Navjot . Shukla . Shubham . Kathuria . Kriti . Badhwar . Rahul . Kanji . Rakesh . Jain . Anupam . Kaur . Avneet . Nagpal . Rashmi . Bagler . Ganesh . FlavorDB: a database of flavor molecules . Nucleic Acids Research . 4 January 2018 . 46 . D1 . D1210–D1216 . 10.1093/nar/gkx957 . 29059383 . 5753196 .
  6. 10.1371/journal.pone.0198030. 29813110. 5973616. Data-driven analysis of biomedical literature suggests broad-spectrum benefits of culinary herbs and spices. PLOS ONE. 13. 5. e0198030. 2018. Rakhi. N. K.. Tuwani. Rudraksh. Mukherjee. Jagriti. Bagler. Ganesh. 2018PLoSO..1398030R. free.
  7. Web site: Can A Computer Cook Up The Perfect Recipe?. 16 December 2018. HuffPost India.
  8. Web site: Food Scientists Say AI Can Give Ayurveda Scientific Rigor. 5 January 2019. HuffPost India.
  9. Web site: Computational Gastronomy: Leveraging food for better health through... by Ganesh Bagler . YouTube . 2019-08-08 . 2020-02-23.
  10. Web site: Data . www.currentscience.ac.in . 2020-02-24.
  11. Web site: Symposium on Computational Gastronomy. 10 December 2023. IIIT-Delhi.
  12. Web site: Data Mining Indian Recipes Reveals New Food Pairing Phenomenon. Emerging Technology from the. arXiv. MIT Technology Review.
  13. Web site: This is why Indian food is so delicious... - Times of India . Timesofindia.indiatimes.com . 2015-12-06 . 2020-02-23.
  14. Why Indian Food Is So Tasty. Time.
  15. Web site: Researchers Explain Why Indian Cuisine Is Exquisite. NPR.org.
  16. Web site: The tastes of India: Spices give Indian food the edge. The Jakarta Post.
  17. Jain . Anupam . Bagler . Ganesh . Culinary evolution models for Indian cuisines . Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications . 1 August 2018 . 503 . 170–176 . 10.1016/j.physa.2018.02.176 . 2018PhyA..503..170J . 1505.00155 . 16910527 .
  18. 1904.10138. Tuwani. Rudraksh. Computational models for the evolution of world cuisines. Sahoo. Nutan. Singh. Navjot. Bagler. Ganesh. 2019. physics.soc-ph.
  19. 10.1371/journal.pone.0198030. 29813110. 5973616. Data-driven analysis of biomedical literature suggests broad-spectrum benefits of culinary herbs and spices. PLOS ONE. 13. 5. e0198030. 2018. Rakhi. N. K.. Tuwani. Rudraksh. Mukherjee. Jagriti. Bagler. Ganesh. 2018PLoSO..1398030R. free.
  20. 0711.2616. Bagler. Ganesh. Modeling Protein Contact Networks. 2007. q-bio.MN.
  21. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm257. 17519248. Assortative mixing in Protein Contact Networks and protein folding kinetics. Bioinformatics. 23. 14. 1760–1767. 2007. Bagler. Ganesh. Sinha. Somdatta. 2007Bioin..23.1760B. 0711.2723.
  22. Web site: Computational Gastronomy: Data Science Approach to Food World IA Day . 2024-10-15 . worldiaday.org.
  23. Web site: Ganesh Bagler | IIIT-Delhi . Iiitd.ac.in . 2020-02-23.
  24. Web site: Department of Computational Biology - IIIT Delhi . Cb.iiitd.ac.in . 2020-02-23.
  25. Web site: Complex Systems Lab, IIIT-Delhi . Cosylab.iiitd.edu.in . 2020-02-23.
  26. Web site: Ganesh Bagler - Google Scholar Citations . 2020-02-23.
  27. Bagler . Ganesh . Sinha . Somdatta . Network properties of protein structures . Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications . 1 February 2005 . 346 . 1 . 27–33 . 10.1016/j.physa.2004.08.046 . 2005PhyA..346...27B . q-bio/0408009 . 9539809 .
  28. Bagler . Ganesh . Sinha . Somdatta . Assortative mixing in Protein Contact Networks and protein folding kinetics . Bioinformatics . 15 July 2007 . 23 . 14 . 1760–1767 . 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm257 . 17519248 . 0711.2723 . 2007Bioin..23.1760B .
  29. Lappe . Michael . Bagler . Ganesh . Filippis . Ioannis . Stehr . Henning . Duarte . Jose M . Sathyapriya . Rajagopal . Designing evolvable libraries using multi-body potentials . Current Opinion in Biotechnology . 1 August 2009 . 20 . 4 . 437–446 . 10.1016/j.copbio.2009.07.008 . 19713097 .
  30. Kumar . Arun . Dutt . Som . Bagler . Ganesh . Ahuja . Paramvir Singh . Kumar . Sanjay . Engineering a thermo-stable superoxide dismutase functional at sub-zero to >50°C, which also tolerates autoclaving . Scientific Reports . 30 April 2012 . 2 . 1 . 387 . 10.1038/srep00387 . 22548128 . 3339387 . 2012NatSR...2..387K .
  31. Bagler . Ganesh . Analysis of the airport network of India as a complex weighted network . Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications . 1 May 2008 . 387 . 12 . 2972–2980 . 10.1016/j.physa.2008.01.077 . 2008PhyA..387.2972B . cond-mat/0409773 . 119387720 .
  32. 10.1371/journal.pone.0049401. 23166660. 3498148. An Approach for the Identification of Targets Specific to Bone Metastasis Using Cancer Genes Interactome and Gene Ontology Analysis. PLOS ONE. 7. 11. e49401. 2012. Vashisht. Shikha. Bagler. Ganesh. 2012PLoSO...749401V. 1112.1510. free.
  33. Ravindran . Vandana . Nacher . Jose C. . Akutsu . Tatsuya . Ishitsuka . Masayuki . Osadcenco . Adrian . Sunitha . V. . Bagler . Ganesh . Schwartz . Jean-Marc . Robertson . David L. . Network controllability analysis of intracellular signalling reveals viruses are actively controlling molecular systems . Scientific Reports . 14 February 2019 . 9 . 1 . 2066 . 10.1038/s41598-018-38224-9 . 30765882 . 6375943 . 2019NatSR...9.2066R .
  34. Ravindran . Vandana . V. . Sunitha . Bagler . Ganesh . Identification of critical regulatory genes in cancer signaling network using controllability analysis . Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications . 15 May 2017 . 474 . 134–143 . 10.1016/j.physa.2017.01.059 . 2017PhyA..474..134R .
  35. 10.1371/journal.pone.0061327. 23613832. 3629236. Prospecting for Novel Plant-Derived Molecules of Rauvolfia serpentina as Inhibitors of Aldose Reductase, a Potent Drug Target for Diabetes and Its Complications. PLOS ONE. 8. 4. e61327. 2013. Pathania. Shivalika. Randhawa. Vinay. Bagler. Ganesh. 2013PLoSO...861327P. free.
  36. 10.1186/s12906-015-0683-7. 26238452. 4523024. SerpentinaDB: A database of plant-derived molecules of Rauvolfia serpentina. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 15. 262. 2015. Pathania. Shivalika. Ramakrishnan. Sai Mukund. Randhawa. Vinay. Bagler. Ganesh . free .
  37. 10.1093/database/bav075. 26255307. 4529746. Phytochemica: A platform to explore phytochemicals of medicinal plants. Database. 2015. bav075. 2015. Pathania. Shivalika. Ramakrishnan. Sai Mukund. Bagler. Ganesh.
  38. 10.1371/journal.pone.0139204. 26413834. 4586142. Control of Neuronal Network in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLOS ONE. 10. 9. e0139204. 2015. Badhwar. Rahul. Bagler. Ganesh. 2015PLoSO..1039204B. free.
  39. Badhwar . Rahul . Bagler . Ganesh . A distance constrained synaptic plasticity model of C. elegans neuronal network . Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications . 1 March 2017 . 469 . 313–322 . 10.1016/j.physa.2016.11.055 . 2017PhyA..469..313B . 1603.03867 . 2795267 .
  40. 10.1371/journal.pone.0193959. 29494708. 5832387. A hierarchical anatomical classification schema for prediction of phenotypic side effects. PLOS ONE. 13. 3. e0193959. 2018. Wadhwa. Somin. Gupta. Aishwarya. Dokania. Shubham. Kanji. Rakesh. Bagler. Ganesh. 2018PLoSO..1393959W. free.
  41. 1509.05163. Yadav. Reena. Numerical study of variable lung ventilation strategies. Ghatge. Mayur. Hiremath. Kirankumar. Bagler. Ganesh. 2015. q-bio.QM.
  42. Web site: Outreach: Talks, Presentations, Past members of the lab. Ganesh Bagler (IIIT-Delhi) - Google My Maps . 2020-02-23.
  43. Web site: Making Food Computable | Dr. Ganesh Bagler | TEDxIISERPune . YouTube . 2023-07-10 . 2024-09-29.
  44. Web site: Data-driven Food Pairings - Ganesh Bagler . 6 April 2017 . YouTube . 2020-02-23.
  45. Web site: Computational Gastronomy: Leveraging food for better health through... by Ganesh Bagler . YouTube . 2019-08-08 . 2020-02-23.
  46. Web site: Cadence Advanced Technology Talk :: Can a biologist fix a radio? (Ganesh Bagler) . YouTube . 2019-09-11 . 2020-02-23.
  47. Web site: 2018 Utrecht Conference Program – easym . Easym.eu . 2020-02-23.
  48. Web site: OPEN Computational Gastronomy [Week01/Class01] Ganesh Bagler |date=8 September 2019 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2020-02-23].
  49. News: Students want 'terminator' IIT-Jodhpur chief to go - Times of India. The Times of India. 3 April 2015 .
  50. News: Press Trust of India . IIT Jodhpur students urge Prez, HRD Minitsry to sack Director | Business Standard News . Business Standard India . 3 April 2015 . Business-standard.com . 2020-02-23.
  51. Web site: These IIT Students Are Waging A Social Media War On Their Director #DictatorFreeIITJ . Indiatimes.com . 2015-04-03 . 2020-02-23.
  52. News: Press Trust of India . IIT-J students protest against faculty termination | Business Standard News . Business Standard India . April 2015 . Business-standard.com . 2020-02-23.
  53. Web site: Khamma Ghani . iitj.ac.in . 2018 . 2020-02-24.

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