PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Anshu Bhardwaj

Anshu Bhardwaj is a researcher whose computational work spans disease-associated genetic variation, tuberculosis drug discovery and antimicrobial resistance. She completed a Life Sciences Ph.D. at Hyderabad's Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2008, with a thesis on prioritizing single nucleotide polymorphisms as potential biomarkers. Connect to Decode used crowdsourced curation to map tuberculosis protein interactions; her 2017 and 2020 papers explored computational tools for tuberculosis drug discovery. She received the SERB Early Career Research Award in 2017, led the MitoInfect host-pathogen project from 2022 to 2025, and coauthored ARKbase 1.0 in 2025. As of October 2026, she is an Associate Research Fellow at RBCDSAI and a Principal Scientist at CSIR-IMTech.

Timeline

  1. 2008

    A Life Sciences PhD

    She earns a Ph.D. in Life Sciences from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad in 2008. Her thesis prioritizes single nucleotide polymorphisms in disease-association studies to identify potential biomarkers.

  2. 2012

    Connect to Decode

    In 2012, she coauthors the Connect to Decode study as a lead PI in the Open Source Drug Discovery project. She conceives and implements crowdsourcing for the effort; the study reports a manually curated Mycobacterium tuberculosis interactome with 1,434 proteins and 2,575 functional relationships.

  3. 2017

    MPDS-TB diagnostic suite

    In 2017, she coauthors “Assessing therapeutic potential of molecules: molecular property diagnostic suite for tuberculosis,” a study of the Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite for tuberculosis (MPDS-TB).

  4. 2017

    SERB Early Career Research Award

    In 2017, she receives the SERB Early Career Research Award.

  5. 2020

    Hybrid pharmacophore models

    In 2020, she coauthors a study reporting a dynamic hybrid pharmacophore model (DHPM), which represents interaction features from different binding pockets. The authors screen novel compounds against Mtb-DapB with the model for anti-tuberculosis drug discovery.

  6. 2022–2025

    MitoInfect project

    From 2022 to 2025, she serves as principal investigator for MitoInfect at CSIR-IMTech, a project on mitochondria-associated host-pathogen interactions.

  7. 2025

    ARKbase for antimicrobial resistance

    She coauthors ARKbase 1.0 in 2025, an antimicrobial-resistance knowledgebase at CSIR-IMTech. The site invites community contributions of machine-learning models for AMR prediction or prioritization.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate Research Fellow and Principal Scientist

    As of October 2026, she is an Associate Research Fellow at RBCDSAI and a Principal Scientist at the Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR).

Career

  1. NowRobert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial IntelligenceAssociate Research Fellow
  2. NowMinistry of Science and TechnologyPrincipal Scientist

Education

  1. 2008Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchPh.D. in Life Sciences

From the biography.

  1. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Sources and credits

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  1. Anshu Bhardwaj | Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence rbcdsai.iitm.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Crowd Sourcing a New Paradigm for Interactome Driven Drug Target Identification in Mycobacterium tuberculosis | PLOS One journals.plos.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Assessing therapeutic potential of molecules: molecular property diagnostic suite for tuberculosis (MPDS-TB) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai scholars.mssm.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Awards imtech.res.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Hybrid Dynamic Pharmacophore Models as Effective Tools to Identify Novel Chemotypes for Anti-TB Inhibitor Design: A Case Study With Mtb-DapB | Frontiers in Chemistry frontiersin.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. MitoInfect: An integrative Approach to Dissect Mitochondria associated Host-Pathogen Interactions | India Science, Technology & Innovation indiascienceandtechnology.gov.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. ARKbase - Antimicrobial Resistance Knowledgebase datascience.imtech.res.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Faculty | Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence wsai.iitm.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.