I am from Malerkotla Punjab 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 .
Education
PhD in Plant Breeding & Genetics, 2019University of Bristol
University of Nottingham
Punjab Agricultural University
Interests and Hobbies
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 .
I am the person who takes initiative and stays curious .
Feel free to contact me if you find my blog useful, think I might be a good fit or simply would like to connect .