chandigarh dr m karthikeyan a scientist from csirnational chemical laboratory csirncl pune has been selected for the open innovation challenge thomson reuters and codex award 2015 in the area of big data analytics the award comprises a citation and a cash prize of 10000 usd and is sponsored jointly by stanford computer science department and stanford law school the challenge involved the analysis of large amount of data to discover trends and patterns with predictive abilities the evaluation of the proposed solution was carried out by the group of judges and experts that featured three levels of screening about 450 solvers participated in the event worldwide and the best three were selected for the award the solution developed by dr karthikeyan involved opensource based predictive modeling methods that provide analytics to data scientists and legal practitioners dr karthikeyan has been working in the area of chemoinformatics and has authored several publications and patents related to drug discovery and information technology he has also authored a text book on practical chemoinformatics published by springer he is currently serving on the editorial board of j combinatorial chemistry and j molecular informatics dr karthikeyan earlier has received the boyscast award in 2003 by department of science and technology and overseas associate award in 2007 by the department of biotechnology to pursue advanced research in university of north carolina chapel hill us