Group Members
Post-doctoral fellows :
Dr. Rahul Kaushik, PhD HRI Pryagraj (joined May 2022)
Dr Yashpreet Kaur, PhD IISER Mohali (NBHM post-doc, joined March 2021)
Dr. Parul Gupta, PhD Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, Universität Konstanz, Germany (SERB funded grant, joined Feb 2020).
Dr. Sagar Kalane, PhD IISER Mohali (NBHM post-doc, joined August 2021). Started his own Academy.
Dr. Uday Bhaskar Sharma, PhD IMSc Chennai (SERB post-doc 2017- July 19). Now faculty at UPES Dehradun.
Dr. Dilpreet Kaur, PhD IISER Mohali (NBHM post-doc 2017 till August 17 and SERB post-doc till July 19). Now faculty at IIT Jodhpur.
Ph D students :
Ayon Roy - joined August 2023.
Prachi Saini - joined August 2022.
Saikat Panja - completed thesis October 2022 titled "Powers and skew-braces in classical groups". Now post-doc at HRI Prayagraj.
Rijubrata Kundu - completed thesis May 2021 titled "Powers in finite groups of Lie type". Now Post-doc at IISER Mohali.
Sushil Bhunia - completed thesis August 2017 titled "Computations in classical groups". Now faculty at BITS Pillani Hyderabad.
(joint supervisor with Ayan Mahalanobis) Pralhad Shinde - completed thesis September 2017 titled "MOR cryptosystem with orthogonal groups". Now faculty at COEP Pune.
Minor Thesis :
Tumpa Mahato: The cycle structure of a linear transformation over a finite field
Hitendra Kumar: Title: Pairs of commuting matrices over a finite field
Saikat Panja : Navigating the Cayley Graph of SL(2,p)
Prasun Roychowdhury : Presentation of matrix rings
Rijubrata Kundu : On the Group of Homeomorphisms of an Arc
Thathagat Mandal : The Jordan Canonical Forms of Complex Orthogonal Matrices
Jyotirmoy Ganguli : Lang's Theorem
Sushil Bhunia : Whitehead graphs on handlebodies
M.S. Thesis :
Avinash Roy "Algebras with involution and classical groups" 2021.
Yash Arora completed a thesis titled "Two-generation of classical groups" 2019.
Bhargavi Parthasarathy completed her thesis "Conjugacy Classes of centralizers" 2019.
Jointly supervised M.S. thesis for Mr. Venkata Raghu Tej Pantangi with Prof. Amritanshu Prasad on the topic “Representation theory of symmetric groups” in the year 2012. He completed his PhD at the University of Florida.
Jointly supervised M.S. thesis of Ms. Akshaa Vatwani with Prof. Dipendra Prasad on the topic “Fourier Analysis in Number Fields” in the year 2012. Currently, she is a faculty at IIT Gandhinagar after completing her PhD at Queen’s University.
Jointly supervised M.S. thesis for Ms. Lakshmi Priya with Prof. Ravi Kulkarni on the topic “The Great Picard’s Theorem and the Uniformization Theorem” in the year 2011.
Semester long reading projects:
Sakshi Manmode, January 2024
Sushant Maske, August 2023, January 2024
Ayon Roy, January 2023
Sutirtha Datta, August 2022
Arup Mondal, August 2022
Kartik Sharma, August 2020
Avinash Roy, January 2020
Suraj Yadav, January 2019
Bhargavi Parthasarathy, January 2018
Yash Arora, January 2018
Darshan Nasit, August 2017
Sunil Choudhary, August 2017
Neha Malik, August 2016
Ajith Nair, August 2015
Nishad Mandlik, August 2013
Manidipa, January 2012
Sushil Bhunia, January 2012
Punya Satpathy, January 2012
Ashwin T.A.N, January 2011
Venkata Raghu Tej, August 2010, January 2011
Mohammed Zuhair, August 2010
M E Lakshmipriya, January 2010
Kartik Hambardikar, August 2009
Jay Shah, August 2009
Rajesh Yadav, August 2009
Guhan Venkat, August 2009
Akshaa Vatwani, August 2009