Research

Publications

• A Comprehensive Benchmarking of Spatial Deconvolution and Domain Detection Methods across Diverse Tissues and Spatial Transcriptomic Technologies
  Ajita Shree, Aditya V, Tanush Kumar, Hamim Zafar
  BiorXiv, 2026

• A Temporal Single-Cell Multi-Omics Atlas of Murine Pancreatic Islet Remodeling During Hyperglycaemia Progression
  Simran Singh, Musale Krushna Pavan, Luiz F. Barella, Jayesh Telang, Ajita Shree, Shruti Agarwal, Ayush Goel, Saahiba I Thaleshwar, Jurgen Wess, Hamim Zafar
  Molecular Metabolism, 2026

• scDREAMER for atlas-level integration of single-cell datasets using deep generative model paired with adversarial classifier
  Ajita Shree, Musale Krushna Pavan, Hamim Zafar
  Nature Communications, 2023

Research Talks

• October 2026: Invited talk at Mopitas Autumn School, The National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
• October 2026: Invited talk at Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK,
• February 2026: Delivered a talk on “Deep generative models for single-cell and spatial genomics” at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India

Poster presentation and lightening talks

• September 2026: Poster presentation and lightening talk at Target Validation – In the Era of Genomics, Big Data, and AI, Cambridge, UK
• August 2026: Online lightening talk at ECCB, Geneva, Switzerland
• June 2026: Presented poster and lightening talks at AIXBio and SCB, Cambridge, UK
• January 2026: Delivered a Lightening talk at ANRF-PAIR Conference on Cancer Genomics, Diagnostics and Therapeutics, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India
• April 2025: Delivered Lightening talk and Poster at RECOMB 2025, Seoul, South Korea
• 2023: Presented Poster on “Supervised integration of single-cell datasets using hierarchical deep-generative model paired with cell-type classifier” at ISMB/ECCB 2023 Lyon, France ; Delivered a Lightening talk and Poster on scDREAMER at Symposium on Big Data Algorithms for Biology, IISC, Bengaluru and the Mehta Family Center for Engineering & Medicine research symposium, Kanpur, India
• 2022: Presented Lightening Talk and Poster on scDREAMER: atlas-level integration of single-cell datasets using deep generative model paired with adversarial classifier in MLCSB COSI at ISMB 2022, Washington, USA and at Single Cell Biology 2022, Cambridge, UK , both presented online.

Research Visits

• December 2026: SaezLab workshop at EMBL-Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
• June 2026: Attended SaezLab workshop at Paris Cardiovascular Research Center, Paris, France
• July 2023: Visit to KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• 2018-2019: Industrial visits to GE R&D centers and plants in Bangalore, Chennai-India , Budapest-Hungary and Detroit-USA