Patents

Ramesh Hariharan, Vamshi M Veeramachaneni, Prakash Hiremath M, Nihesh Rathod, Swaraj Basu, “Method for detecting cancer through cell-free dna methylation patterns in subject and diagnostic device therefor”, Application No: 202441081204, Date of Grant: 10-06-2026, Date of Filling: 24-10-2024, Publication Date: 01-11-2024, Journal No: 44/2024.

Published Articles

Aniruddha Adiga, Benjamin Hurt, Gursharn Kaur, Bryan Lewis, Madhav Marathe, Srinivasan Venkatramanan, Kantha Rao Bhimala, Vidhyadhar Mudkavi, Gopal Krishna Patra, Ambedkar Dukkipati, Tony Gracious, Shubham Gupta, Nihesh Rathod, Rajesh Sundaresan, Sarath Yasodharan and Siva Athreya. “A multi-team multi-model collaborative COVID-19 forecasting hub for India”, Winter Simulation Conference 2023, San Antonio, TX, USA, December 2023.

P. N. Karthik, Nihesh Rathod, Sarath Yasodharan, Wilson Lobo, Ajeesh Sahadevan, Rajesh Sundaresane, Pratik Verma. “Effectiveness of the Bus Priority Lane in Bengaluru, Special issue - Sustainable City Transportation in the Indian Subcontinent”, Transport Policy, August 2023.

Nihesh Rathod, Rajesh Sundaresan. “Relay Placement Algorithms for IoT Connectivity and Coverage in an Outdoor Heterogeneous Propagation Environment”, IEEE Access 2021, Volume 10, 13270 - 13289, January 2022.

Siva Athreya, Giridhara R. Babu, Aniruddha Iyer, Mohammed Minhaas, Nihesh Rathod, Sharad Shriram, Rajesh Sundaresan, Nidhin Koshy Vaidhiyan and Sarath Yasodharan. “COVID-19: Optimal Design of Serosurveys for Disease Burden Estimation”, Sankhya B, 1 - 23, October 2021.

Shubhada Agrawal, Siddharth Bhandari, Anirban Bhattacharjee, Anand Deo, Narendra M. Dixit, Prahladh Harsha, Sandeep Juneja, Poonam Kesarwani, Aditya Krishna Swamy, Preetam Patil, Nihesh Rathod, Ramprasad Saptharishi, Sharad Shriram, Piyush Srivastava, Rajesh Sundaresan, Nidhin Koshy Vaidhiyan and Sarath Yasodharan. “City-Scale Agent-Based Simulators for the Study of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions in the Context of the COVID-19 Epidemic”, Journal of IISc, Issue 100, Volume 4, 809–847, October 2020.

Nihesh Rathod, Renu Subramanian, Rajesh Sundaresan. “Coverage Estimation in Outdoor Heterogeneous Propagation Environments”, IEEE Access 2020, Volume 8, 31660 - 31673, February 2020.

Nihesh Rathod and Rajesh Sundaresan. “Relay Placement Algorithms for Communication in a Heterogeneous Propagation Environment”, WMNC 2019, Paris, France, 219 - 226, September 2019.

Nihesh Rathod, Renu Subramanian, Rajesh Sundaresan. “Data-driven and GIS-based Coverage Estimation in a Heterogeneous Propagation Environment”, Globecom 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 1 - 6, December 2018.

Prachet Verma, Akshay Kumar, Nihesh Rathod, Pratik Jain, Mallikarjun Sunkenapally, Renu Subramanian, Bharadwaj Amrutur, M.S. Mohan Kumar, Rajesh Sundaresan. “Towards an IoT based Water Management System for a Campus”, ISC2 2015, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1 - 6, October 2015.

Nihesh Rathod, Pratik Jain, Renu Subramanian, Siddesh Yawalkar, Mallikarjun Sunkenapally, Bharadwaj Amrutur and Rajesh Sundaresan. “Performance analysis of wireless devices for a campus-wide IoT network”, WiOpt 2015, IIT Bombay, India, 84 - 89, May 2015.

Posters

Sayak Dhar, Lavanya Nemani, Shekhar Nath, Keshav Agarwal, Advika Lakshman, Shardul Kamble, Swaraj Basu, Prakash Hiremath, Nihesh Rathod, Stan Iyer, Radhakrishna Bettadapura, Ramesh Hariharan, Badri Padhukasahasram, “A powerful multi-omic AI framework for Blood-Based Cancer Screening and Tissue-of-Origin Prediction”, Poster, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2026, Washington, DC.

Urvashi Bahadur, Divya Vishwanath, Prakash Hiremath, Nihesh Rathod, Swaraj Basu, Sampuran Chakraborty, Aastha Tripathi, Preetha RT, Aditi Chatterjee, Arunima Ghosh, Sameer Phalke, Subuhi Yete, Ankita Khan, Sweta Sanguri, Mohammed Rahman, Charles Cantor, Sewanti Limaye, Vamsi Veeramachaneni, Ramesh Hariharan “CancerSpot: A Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test Using Targeted Methylation Sequencing”, Poster 2343, American Association for Cancer Research, 2025, Chicago, Illinois.

Nihesh Rathod, Kannadhasan Sekar, Swaraj Basu, “Methylation and beyond: Accelerating cfDNA epigenetics and fragmentomics profiling with Cloud-Native and GPU Solutions”, Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, 2025, Boston, Massachusetts.

Nihesh Rathod, Renu Subramanian, Rajesh Sundaresan. “An ACO-based RelayPlacement Tool for Communication in a Heterogeneous Region”, Poster Presentation, Cyber-Physical Systems Seminar (CyPhySS) 2017, IISc Bangalore.

Preprints

Basu Swaraj, Prakash Hiremath M, Nihesh Rathod, Aditi Chatterjee, Divya Vishwanath, Arunima Ghosh, Sweta Sanguri et al. “CancerSpot: A multi-cancer early detection test developed and validated on a retrospective cohort.”, MedRxiv (2024): 2024 - 12.

Pandia Bandana, Dheemanth Regati, Nihesh Rathod, Santhosh Sankar, Sneha Vasudevan, R. Sowdhamini, and Nagasuma Chandra. “CAcnesDB: A database of Cutibacterium acnes with Integrated Functional Insights derived from Multi-modal Genome Annotation.” bioRxiv (2025): 2025-11.

Aniruddha Adiga, Siva Athreya, Bryan Lewis, Madhav Marathe, Nihesh Rathod, Rajesh Sundaresan, Samarth Swarup, Srinivasan Venkatramanan and Sarath Yasodharan. “Vaccine Allocation Strategies to Mitigate COVID-19 Resurgence Assuming Immunity Waning: A Study for Karnataka, India”, Submitted to Epidemics, Submitted in June 2021.

Aniruddha Adiga, Siva Athreya, Madhav Marathe, Jagadish Midthala, Nihesh Rathod, Rajesh Sundaresan, Srinivasan Venkataramanan, Sarath Yasodharan. “Impact of Weeknight and Weekend Curfews Using Mobility Data: A Case Study of Bengaluru Urban”, medRxiv Preprint, January 2022.

Prahladh Harsha, Sandeep Juneja, Preetam Patil, Nihesh Rathod, Ramprasad Saptharishi, A. Y. Sarath, Sharad Sriram, Piyush Srivastava, Rajesh Sundaresan, Nidhin Koshy Vaidhiyan. “COVID-19 Epidemic Study II: Phased Emergence From the Lockdown in Mumbai”, arXiv Preprint, June 2020.

Sagar Gubbi Venkatesh, Nihesh Rathod, Shishir Kolathaya and Bharadwaj Amrutur. “Stochastic Action Prediction for Imitation Learning”, ResearchGate, December 2020.