Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION  
   

2005 - present

Pursuing PhD in Physics

  Department of Physics
 

Indian Institute of Science

 

Bangalore, India

2002 - 2005

Masters (MS) in Physics

  Department of Physics
 

Indian Institute of Science

  Bangalore, India
  CGPA: 6.4 (on a scale of 8)
 

Project title: Order and Fluctuation in Active Particle Systems

1999 - 2002

Bachelors in Science (BSc) with Honours in Physics

 

Presidency College,

  University of Calcutta,
 

Kolkata, India.

 

Grade: First Class (62%)

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 
April-July 2005

Worked under the supervision of Prof. Narayanan Menon (Dept. of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) on experiments on anisotropic granular systems and image analysis.

 
 
   
January 2004-July 2005

MS Project : Experiments on non-equilibrium systems. Investigation of giant number fluctuations and the occurrence of striped phases in driven mono-layers of rod-like particles.

 
 
   
October-November 2003 Interfacing a Keithley Digital Multimeter to collect data at high speeds (2000 Hz)
(Supervisor: Prof. A. K. Sood, IISc)
   
May-July 2003

Design and construction of low-temperature Hall apparatus

  (Supervisor: Prof. V. Venkataraman, IISc)
  Setting up optical tweezers
  (Supervisor: Prof. Vasant Natarajan, IISc)
   
June 2002

Worked under the supervision of Prof. Gautam Menon (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) on simple computational methods (Monte Carlo) and applied them to investigate the robustness in transcription networks.

   
Computing Comfortable with all WINDOWS operating systems
Comfortable with ImageJ (image analysis software)
Experience in using MATLAB
Knowledge in using LINUX operating systems
Knowledge in C and FORTRAN programming

 

CONFERENCES and SCHOOLS ATTENDED

     

January 5-9, 2004

International Symposium on Molecules, Machines and Networks at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

 
     

January 4-15, 2004

NCBS Japan workshop on Single Molecule Biophysics at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

 
February 16-28, 2004

SERC School on Statistical Physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

 
March 21-25, 2005 2005 APS March Meeting at Los Angeles, CA, USA

Contributed Talk

May 18-20, 2005 Frontiers in Soft Condensed Matter Workshop at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering company, Annandale, NJ, USA

Poster

 

June 9, 2005

3rd Annual New York/New England Granular Materials Workshop at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

 

Poster

December 5-9, 2005

DAE-SSPS 2005 at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

 

Poster

 

July 23-28, 2006

Gordon Research Conference on Granular and Granular-fluid Flow at Queen's College, Oxford, UK.

 

Poster

 

July 9-13, 2007

XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics at Genova, Italy

 

Contributed Talk

 

 

 

ACADEMIC AWARDS
   
  • All-India rank 65 (97.0 percentile) in the Joint Entrance Screening Test conducted in February 2002

  • Awarded the Joint CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility for lectureship-National Eligibility Test (NET) held on 18.12.2005

  • Recipient of the Nature Publishing Group Award to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Granular and Granular-fluid Flow, Oxford (2006)

 

PERSONAL PROFILE

   
Date of Birth:

April 11, 1981

Nationality: Indian
Sex:     Male
Permanent address: 28/4 Gariahat Road
  Kolkata 700029
  West Bengal, India

 

REFERENCES

   

Research Supervisor

Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy (sriram at physics.iisc.ernet.in)
  Prof. Narayanan Menon (menon at physics.umass.edu)