Senior Principal Investigator, A*STAR
Adjunct Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, NTU
Associate Editor, Genomics (Elsevier)
Academic Editor, Scientific Reports, Genetics & Genomics (Nature Research)
Biography
Kumar is a Senior Principal Investigator for Computational Biology & Omics laboratories at the Bioinformatics Institute and the Singapore Institute for Food & Biotechnology Innovation, A*STAR. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University. Prior, he was an Associate Professor in Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan. He serves the editorial board of Genomics (Elsevier), Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) and Biotechnology Notes (KeAi Publishing). He has lead teams in Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics. In particular, he has used original ideas, utilizing fundamental statistical laws, to investigate multi-dimensional datasets, deterministic and stochastic modelling of complex signaling and metabolic networks. He has authored over 70 scientific articles, largely as corresponding author, which includes a single-authored book on Immuno Systems Biology (Springer), and has obtained several research grants, and an international grant reviewer. He has also presented invited/keynote talks at numerous international conferences. In 2013, 2015 and 2018, he founded and chaired the Symposium on Complex Biodynamics and Networks (cBio).
Research Interests
Computational biology, systems biology, bioinformatics and statistical genetics