CV

Research appointments, education, and selected distinctions.

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Research appointments

Period Appointment
July 2025–April 2026 Guest Researcher, FEMTO-ST Institute, Besançon, France; continued collaboration with Dr Jean-Julien Aucouturier’s group.
July 2024–July 2025 Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, CNRS, FEMTO-ST Institute, Besançon, France.
February–July 2024 Adjunct Researcher, Constructor University Bremen, Germany; continued work with Prof. Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns before joining FEMTO-ST in July 2024.
February 2023–February 2024 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Constructor University Bremen, Germany, with Prof. Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns.
September 2020–September 2022 Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Bombay, India, with Prof. Punit Parmananda.
November 2019–March 2020 Project Research Assistant, IIT Bombay, India, with Prof. Punit Parmananda.

Education

  • Integrated MS-PhD in Physics, First Class, IISER Mohali (August 2012–January 2020). Thesis: Utilizing Noise to Implement Logical Operations in Bistable Systems. Supervisor: Prof. Sudeshna Sinha.
  • BSc in Physics, First Class, Loyola College, Chennai (June 2009–April 2012).

Competitive distinctions

  • European Commission Seal of Excellence, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024, for ARCADYA: Learning the Cortical Dynamics of Consciousness in Sleep and Coma.
  • Ranked second, Chaire de Professeur Junior competition, SUPMICROTECH/FEMTO-ST, France (2025): Explainable and physics-informed artificial intelligence for data-driven modelling of complex dynamical systems.

Selected presentations

  • June 2025: Poster, Modelling the bistable cortical dynamics of the sleep-onset period, International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2022: Oral presentation, Synchronization through shuffling, Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, IISER Pune, India.
  • 2022: Poster, Emergent noise-aided logic through synchronization, Dynamics Days Europe, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
  • 2019: Oral presentation, Synchronized hopping induced by the interplay of coupling and noise, First International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Advanced schools and workshops

  • Nonlinear Data Analysis and Modeling: Advances, Applications, Perspectives, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany (2023).
  • Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Winter School, IISER Mohali, India (2015).

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