About

I am from and work as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Transforming India’s Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge .

My work focus on the development and evaluation of high-yielding, diseases resistance, and abiotic stress tolerance crops. shamshad.in is my blog to keep track of my projects and different HOW TOs related to data and tech .

I am passionate about Agriculture and cutting-edge technologies. I have a solid understanding and rigorous hands-on experience in field of plant breeding, quantitative genetics, computational biology and high throughput phenotyping, which I earned during my academic and research work with plant breeder/geneticists, bioinformaticist, and pathologists in my undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral career .

I have professional Expertise in Plant Breeding , Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and computational biology. I am passionate about Experimental Design, Data Analysis and Visualization using R, SAS, jmp SAS, python, UNIX/Linux, HTML/CSS, Git and GitHub. I have worked experience in DNA extraction, PCR, Gel Electrophoresis, and Microscopy .

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Education

PhD in Plant Breeding & Genetics, 2019

University of Bristol
University of Nottingham
Punjab Agricultural University

MSc in Plant Breeding & Genetics

Punjab Agricultural University, 2014

BSc in Agriculture [Crop Science]

Punjab Agricultural University, 2012

Interests and Hobbies 👨‍💻📝🪴🏋️

Breeding and Genetics

AI for Plant Breeding

Knowledge sharing

Data Science

Writing

Gardening

Gym

Apart from scientifically dealing with I have also enjoy with the coding, development of programs , and going with friends , and family . I grown up in India and Speak Punjabi, English , Hindi, Urdu and bit of French .