Academic CV

• Designing a physics-informed machine learning model to predict properties of accelerated electron bunches from laser and plasma parameters in laser-plasma wakefield accelerators, with Reinier Van Mourik (Senior Scientist, Software & Data Science).
• Building the associated data preprocessing and feature-engineering pipeline.
• Developing strategies for the model to handle day-to-day variation in accelerator operation, and an ML-assisted optimization loop to automate start-up and tuning of the accelerator.

Transition to fluid turbulence as an ecological phase transition, with Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld.

• Developed a stochastic model describing the laminar-to-turbulent transition as a non-equilibrium phase transition in flows with body forces.
• Predicted a tricritical fixed point governing turbulence in curved and heated pipes, and constructed a phase diagram linking body-force strength to directed-percolation universality classes; published in Physical Review Letters.
• Provided scaling predictions for future experimental verification.
• Current work on wave turbulence, transitions to turbulence in shear flows, and stochasticity in turbulent fluids.

Characterizing topological insulator–superconductor junctions, with Prof. Hridis K. Pal.

• Modeled superconductor–topological insulator and superconductor–metal junctions using quasi-classical Green's function methods to study critical temperature, critical fields, and the influence of surface states on superconductivity.
• Derived a non-local Ginzburg–Landau functional for the order parameter, and investigated the effects of topology in superconductor–topological insulator heterostructures.

Electron–phonon equilibration via Keldysh field theory, with Prof. Rajdeep Sensarma.

• Investigated self-consistent electron–phonon dynamics within the Keldysh formalism, beyond the standard static-bath approximation.
• Wrote extensive and modular Python (& Julia) codes for evolving the coupled system; tested constituents by connecting them to baths and studying equilibration characteristics from specific initial conditions.

Fluctuations in non-centrosymmetric superconductors, with Dr. Alexander Zyuzin. Selected for the AScI International Internship Program.

• Extended Ginzburg–Landau theory to spin–orbit-coupled superconductors lacking inversion symmetry, studying the effects of spin–orbit coupling on thermodynamic observables.
• Analyzed fluctuation effects on magnetic susceptibility and specific heat near the critical temperature; extended into my bachelor's thesis, which also investigated odd-parity superconductors.

• Supervised by Dr. Sutanu Roy; studied Banach spaces, fixed-point theorems, and mathematical formulations of Google's PageRank algorithm.

APS Joint March & April Meeting, Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, CA

Presented results on tricritical turbulence scaling in flows under body forces.

JIFT Workshop on Strong Turbulence, UC San Diego

Invited talk on statistical mechanics of turbulence and universality in boundary-driven flows.

UC San Diego

Discussed dimensional reduction and low-rank structure in complex systems. Slides.

Condensed Matter Journal Club, IIT Bombay

Classification of order parameters within a generalized BCS theory and the nature of physical observables for different pairing symmetries.

Condensed Matter Journal Club, IIT Bombay

Two-part seminar deriving bosonization identities and their application to transport in Luttinger liquids.

• Emergent States of Matter (twice; graduate course, Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld).
• Introductory mechanics and electromagnetism series, including hands-on labs covering waves and oscillations.
• Led weekly discussion sections, held office hours, and assisted with grading and logistics.

• Statistical Physics, Advanced Statistical Mechanics, Complex Analysis, Electromagnetism.
• Conducted weekly tutorials; assisted with examinations, grading, and curating practice problems.

• Led a 5-member team organizing lectures, workshops, and outreach for a 400-member campus community and 9,000+ online followers.
• Coordinated visits including the Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics Lab at IISER Pune; managed campus-wide experimental physics competitions.

• Advanced Pedagogy Workshop (TEQIP-KITE III). Addressed over 100 college-level mathematics faculty from across India, under the aegis of the World Bank and the Government of India.