Prior to joining IUSB in 2006, he was a scientist at the University of California San Diego Supercomputer Center. With his interdisciplinary background, he has taught introductory and advanced courses for both departments. Dr. Nair has introduced several new courses, including Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Biology of Cancer and Introduction to Datamining. He regularly teaches online courses, and has developed and taught three of them – Biostatistics, Introduction to Data Mining and Genomics. He received funding to develop online courses from the Center for Online Education as well as SEED Grant for computer equipment. He recently received an NSF grant to procure a server for research and for teaching data intensive courses. Dr. Nair’s core research area is cancer genomics.