Personal Profile :

Name	:	Kalpana Mahalingam
Designation	:	Professor
Office	:	HSB252, Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600 036, Tamil Nadu, India
Phone	:	+91 44 2257 4630
Fax	:	+91 44 2257 4602
Email	:	kmahalingam [at] iitm.ac.in

Professional Experience :

Teaching : 18 years
Research : 17 years

Research Interests:

• Theory of Computation: DNA Computing
• Theory of Codes
• Formal Language Theory
• Combinatorics of words

Wetlab Experience (University of Delaware, Summer 2003):

Testing for Cross hybridizations and secondary structures on theoretically designed DNA strands under the supervision of Dr.Junghuei Chen, Department of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry.