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• PhD in CSE from VNIT, Nagpur (2019), Specialization: Bioinformatics
• M. E. in CSE from GHRCE (2009)
• B. E. in Computer Engineering form RTMNU, Nagpur (2004)

• 30 Dec 2020-till date –  Assistant Professor, IIIT Nagpur
• 2018-28 Dec 2020– Adjunct Assistant Professor, IIIT Nagpur
• 2009 – 2014 – Associate Professor, SSGBCOET, Bhusawal
• 2006-2008 – Lecturer, PCE, Nagpur
• 2005-2006 – Trainee Software Engineer, Prism Software Ltd, Nagpur

• 7^th /8^th Sem CSE - Bioinformatics
• 4th Sem CSE – Operating System
• 3^rd Sem CSE - Computer System Organization
• 3^rd Sem CSE/ECE- IT Worksop

Link to IRINS/Vidwan Research Profile

Area of Research

• Bioinformatics
• Data Analysis
• Machine Learning

Research Project

• Ongoing: Collaborative Data Science work with CIIMS, Nagpur.
• Completed: Covid-19 research project on genomic analysis of Coronavirus and its correlation to immune system, approved by IIT Delhi Supercomputing facility.
• Complete:Computational characterization of genes in multiple cancers - This research focusses on detection of common genes in multiple cancer types using large scale data analysis

Reviewer for Journal / Conference

• IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics - IEEE
• Methods - Elsevier
• SNCI Computer Science

• R Makhijani, M Lende, U Thaware, R Sharma, K Zade - 2021, Prioritization of Regions for Covid Vaccinations Using Fuzzy Logic, 12^th International Conference on Computing, 2021.
• R Makhijani, Shubham Sagar, K. Bhanuprakash, 2022, Yoga Pose Rectification, International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence (CVMI).
• Makhijani, R.K., Raut, S.A. and Purohit, H.J., 2018. Identification of common key genes in breast, lung and prostate cancer and exploration of their heterogeneous expression. Oncology Letters, 15(2), pp.1680-1690. (SCIE Indexed; Impact factor:1.5; https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2017.7508))
• Makhijani, R.K., Raut, S.A. and Purohit, H.J., 2018. Fold change based approach for identification of significant network markers in breast, lung and prostate cancer. IET Systems Biology. (SCIE Indexed; Impact factor:1.01; DOI: 10.1049/ietsyb.2018.0012)
• Richa Makhijani, Shital A Raut. Characterization of top hub genes in breast and lung cancer using functional association, in Proc. of Int. Conf. of Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProc 2018), at VIT Vellore, to be published in SCOPUS indexed AISC series of Springer.

M. Tech

• Mr. Jadhav Hemantkumar B, NMU Jalgaon.
• Ms. Lavina Deepak Panjwani, NMU Jalgaon.
• Mr. Rahul Rajendra Singh, NMU Jalgaon.
• Ms. Bharambe Jayashri Vasudeo, NMU Jalgaon.
• Ms. Chaudhari Priya Arun, NMU Jalgaon.
• Ms. Rachana Nemade, NMU Jalgaon.

B.E / B.Tech

• Approximately 10 groups

PhD

• Internship Coordinator
• MOOC Coordinator
• Organizing Committee member in five days’ workshop on High Performance Computing (HPC) held on 14^th May 2018 to 18^th May 2018.
• Organizing Committee member in STTP on Biological Databases and Machine Learning in R   VNIT, Nagpur, 5-10 Dec 2016.
• Organizing Committee member at 81^st Annual Conference on THE INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, 27-30 DEC 2015.
• PG coordinator, CSE, SSGB COET, Bhusawal (2014-12).
• NBA coordinator, CSE, SSGB COET, Bhusawal(2012-13).
• Organized Workshop on Latex, at SSGB COET, Bhusawal,19-21 Oct 2012.

• Best paper award at International Conference SocPros 2018, held at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India.
• Conduction of Session on “Machine learning with R” in STTP on “Open Source Technologies” conducted on 26th Oct 18, at Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering and Research, Nagpur.