Dr. Kanchan research interests span a broad range of areas, including bioinformatics; next-generation sequencing and multi-omics data analysis; microbiome research and metagenomics; machine learning applications in biology, agriculture and biomedical sciences; COVID-19 genome assembly and lineage identification; wastewater epidemiology; transcriptomics and meta-transcriptomics; cancer bioinformatics; neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; peptide and protein modeling and dynamics; protein function prediction; computational drug design; molecular evolution, etc.