Career Timeline

Aug 2025 - CurrentWork

Research Associate

Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg · Oldenburg, Germany

  • Lead bioinformatics operations at the Core Facility Genomics and Bioinformatics, supporting multi-omics research across WGS, WES, RNA-seq, single-cell, Illumina, and Oxford Nanopore datasets.
  • Build and maintain in-house Nextflow workflows for short-read (Illumina) and long-read (Oxford Nanopore) such as allele-specific expression, ONT methylation profiling.
  • Support research groups with bioinformatics input on study design, data QC, and downstream analysis planning.
  • Perform germline variant calling using DRAGEN and DeepVariant, and analyze bulk and single-cell RNA-seq datasets.
  • Manage sequencing data storage and access control across projects on HPC infrastructure.
  • Maintain project-level documentation, including code documentation and methodology.
Aug 2025 - CurrentWork

Bioinformatician

Klinikum Oldenburg · Oldenburg, Germany · Part-time

  • Collaborate with clinical researchers on the analysis of genomic and other clinical research datasets, and support reproducible germline variant-analysis workflows within the hospital computing environment.
  • Deploy and maintain the in-house clinical genomics platform, enabling clinicians to perform variant analysis and prioritisation.
  • Ensure compliance with data-protection (GDPR), access-control, and documentation requirements across the hospital's clinical governance framework and the university's research environment.
Jan 2023 - Aug 2025Work

Bioinformatician

University of Oxford · Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Designed and implemented workflows for the research group's Terra.bio platform, a cloud-based trusted research environment (TRE) on Google Cloud, including a WDL-based workflow for variant calling and annotation using PacBio long-read sequencing data, and a machine learning workflow for proteomic data.
  • Led the processing and analysis of diverse 'omics datasets for research projects at the Oxford-GSK Institute for Molecular and Computational Medicine (IMCM).
  • Provided bioinformatics support to IMCM research teams, devising new analysis strategies and working closely with the bioinformatics core group.
  • Maintained extensive documentation of all analyses and code within the IMCM data platform.
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022Work

Research Scholar

Adam Mickiewicz University · Poznan, Poland

  • Developed a bioinformatics pipeline for automated exploration of NCBI SRA datasets, enabling efficient sequence-based searches and analysis of large-scale NGS data.
  • Analyzed publicly available RNA-seq data to understand gene expression patterns of snoRNAs, tRNAs, and tRNA-like genes.
  • Performed comparative genomic analyses of draft and complete genomes to identify and characterize novel tRNA-Cys gene clusters in Arabidopsis thaliana.
  • Developed a snoRNA expression atlas web application, including gene annotations, expression levels, and predicted target genes.
  • Developed a tRNA expression database providing insights into tRNA and tRNA-like gene expression, transcript-level coverage, and structural details.
Apr 2016 - Sept 2018Work

Bioinformatics Analyst

Medgenome Labs Ltd. · Banglore, India

  • Delivered clinical WES, WGS, RNA-seq, and neo-epitope prediction projects to clinicians and clients as part of a clinical research team operating within a CAP-accredited, NABL-certified diagnostic environment.
  • Developed an in-house variant annotation database to support the interpretation and reporting of clinically relevant genomic variants.
  • Automated the in-house neoepitope prioritisation pipeline for somatic variants, integrating somatic variant calling, HLA typing, and ML-based immunogenicity scoring from tumor-normal DNA-seq and RNA-seq data.
  • Built a web application on top of the pipeline for automated neoepitope prioritisation, generating reports with ranked peptide candidates and their corresponding HLA allele predictions.
  • Built an internal QC dashboard for real-time monitoring of NGS pipeline runs across WES, WGS, and RNA-seq projects on on-premise servers.
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016Work

Bioinformatics Trainee

Genotypic Technology Pvt. Ltd. · Banglore, India

  • Enhanced the in-house variant annotation pipeline by adding newer annotation sources.
  • Analyzed clinical whole-exome sequencing (WES) data to aid clinicians in diagnosing genetic diseases.
  • Conducted benchmarking of variant calling tools, including Illumina's BaseSpace and Agilent SureCall.
2013 - 2015Education

Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Bioinformatics

Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences · Prayagraj, India

2008 - 2012Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Bioinformatics

Bharath University · Chennai, India

Projects

SnapVar

A web application for visualization of human genetic variants in protein domain and transcript context.

proteomics-ML-workflow

A cloud-based proteomics machine learning workflow using deep learning and classical ML models for biomarker discovery.

ARA (Automatic Record Analysis)

A pipeline for automated exploration of NCBI SRA datasets using nucleotide sequences as queries.

nf-rna-wasp-allele-count

A genotype-aware RNA-seq pipeline using STAR+WASP for allele-specific read counting and variant allele fraction estimation.

wgs-varcall

A cloud-based WGS variant calling pipeline for short-read (Illumina) data with an additional feature for targeted GBA variant detection using the Illumina Gauchian tool.

nf-ont-methpro

A haplotype-resolved DNA methylation profiling pipeline for Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing.

pb-variant-call

A WDL-based workflow for variant calling and annotation using PacBio HiFi long-read sequencing data, optimized for execution on the Terra.bio cloud platform.

Gauchian-enrich

A variant annotator for GBA variants called by the Illumina Gauchian tool.

getBamDepth

A tool to generate depth of coverage from a BAM/SAM/CRAM file or parse the output generated by samtools depth.

variant-liftover

A command-line tool to lift over SNVs/indels from hg19 to hg38.

gene-to-protein-domains

A command-line utility to fetch protein domain and transcript information via UniProt/Ensembl APIs.

SRA-annotator

A command-line tool for retrieving annotations from the NCBI SRA database.

Skills

Bioinformatics

Short-read (Illumina) & long-read (PacBio, ONT) data analysis (WGS, WES, RNA-seq)Pipeline development and automationGermline/Somatic Variant Calling

Programming Languages

PythonRBashJavaScriptSQLPerl

Workflow Management

NextflowWDLMake

Containerization & Package Management

DockerApptainerMambaCondaUVPip

Cloud, TRE & HPC Platforms

GCPTerra.bioVerily WorkbenchSLURMPBS

Version Control & CI/CD

GitGitHub ActionsJenkinsSVN

Web Development

ReactDjangoDjango Rest FrameworkD3.jsPlotlyHighChartsBootstrap

Project Management & Documentation

GitHub ProjectsConfluenceQuartoMarkdownRedmine

Publications & Posters

bioRxiv, 2025

BiomarkerML: A cloud-based proteomics ML workflow for biomarker discovery

Zhou, Y., Maurya, A.K., Deng, Y., Fletcher, M.P., Ren, C., & Taylor, A.

Bioinformatics, 2025

GeneFEAST: The pivotal, gene-centric step in functional enrichment analysis interpretation

Taylor, A., Macaulay, V. M., Miossec, M. J., Maurya, A. K., & Buffa, F. M.

GigaScience, 2023

ARA: A flexible pipeline for automated exploration of NCBI SRA datasets

Maurya, A., Szymanski, M., & Karlowski, W. M.

BMC Plant Biology, 2023

tRNA-Cys gene clusters exhibit high variability in Arabidopsis thaliana

Szymanski, M., Maurya, A., Kopec, P., & Karlowski, W. M.

PloS one, 2018

A neoepitope derived from a novel human germline APC gene mutation in familial adenomatous polyposis shows selective immunogenicity

Majumder, S., Shah, R., Elias, J., Mistry, Y., Coral, K., Shah, P., Maurya, A.K., Mittal, B., D'Silva, J.K., Murugan, S., Mahadevan, L., Sathian, R., Ramprasad, V.L., Chakraborty, P., Gupta, R., Chaudhuri, A., & Khanna-Gupta, A.

Canadian Journal of Biotechnology, 2017

Integrated analysis of whole exome and RNA sequencing for Neo-epitope peptide prediction in buccal cancer

Karunakaran, C., Elias, J., Mandoli, N., Maurya, A.K., Kantharia, R., Mistry, Y., Jain, K., Gupta, R., Chaudhuri, A., & Khanna-Gupta, A.

Canadian Journal of Biotechnology, 2017

A neoepitope derived from a novel germline Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene mutation in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) shows selective immunogenicity

Majumder, S., Shah, R., Elias, J., Mistry, Y., Coral, K., Shah, P., Maurya, A.K., Mittal, B., D'Silva, J.K., & Mahadevan, L.

Canadian Journal of Biotechnology, 2017

OncoPeptVAC: A robust TCR binding algorithm to prioritize neoepitope using tumor mutation (DNAseq) and gene expression (RNAseq) data

Majumder, S., Kode, V., Shah, P., Kumar, A., Gupta, R., Chaudhuri, A., & Chakraborty, P.

Canadian Journal of Biotechnology, 2017

An accurate machine learning approach to predict immunogenic peptides in human

Shah, P., Maurya, A.K., Gupta, R., Chaudhuri, A., & Gupta, R.