Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan

hsmurali AT cs DOT umd DOT edu

I am Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan and I am a graduate student in the department of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park. I work with Prof. Mihai Pop on problems in bioinformatics and computational biology with a focus in computational genomics and metagenomics.

Prior to graduate school, I spent 3 wonderful years at the TCS innovation labs at Chennai, India working on analytics for cyberphysical systems, mentored by Dr. Arunchandar Vasan, Dr. Venkatesh Sarangan and, Dr. Srinarayana Nagarathinam.

I was a research intern at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona between Feb 2015 and Jun 2015 as a part of the Semester Abroad Programme (SAP) at SASTRA University. At UPC I worked with Prof. Tomàs Aluja Banet on Learning Analytics at the inLab.

News

Jan, 2024 Our work on transitive annotation is published in Frontiers in Microbiology.
Dec, 2023 Check out our latest preprint on the effect of database sizes on taxonomic resolution here.
Jun, 2023 Got my Masters in Computer Science from UMDCS
Feb, 2023 SCRAPT: An Iterative Algorithm for Clustering Large 16S rRNA Datasets is accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research.
Nov, 2022 Became a Ph.D Candidate.