Ramesh Hariharan

Biography

Ramesh is Co-founder and CEO at Strand, and Adjunct Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Indian Institute of Science. At Strand, over the last 15 years, Ramesh has lead teams building analytical tools for high-throughput molecular profiling; these tools are widely used and have been cited in several thousand publications. More recently, Ramesh and the team at Strand have been working on technology to make DNA sequencing for genetic disease diagnosis affordable in India. Ramesh’s research contributions in computer science include fast algorithms for several algorithmic problems. Ramesh is a recipient of the TR100 Award (2002) of Young Innovators by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine and in 2003 received the Global Indus Technovator Award from MIT, instituted to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide. Ramesh got his Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi, his PhD from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, and subsequently did a Post-Doc at the Max-Planck Institut fur Informatik in Saarbrucken, Germany.  

Research Interest

 biochemistry