Principal Investigator

Experience

• June 2024 - Date: Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal

• October 2018 – June 2024: Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal

• April 2017 – September 2018: Post-Doctoral fellow at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. 

• March 2016 – March 2017: Post-Doctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. 

• August 2015 – February 2016: Junior Research Associate at CeNSE, IISc, Bangalore.

Education

• Ph.D.– Nano science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2016. 

Title- Study and control of electromigration driven material transport for applications in nanofabrication and patterning 

Advisors: Prof. Rudra Pratap (Centre of Nano Science and Engineering) and Prof. Praveen Kumar (Materials Engineering).

• M. S. (Engg.) –Nano science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, March, 2016.

• B. Tech. – Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2010

• B. Sc. – Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2007

Achievements

• Feinberg Graduate Scholarship for pursuing PDF in Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 2017.

• Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) award in 2017 for development of electrolithography tool, given in Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

• BIRAC-SRISTI grant, 2017 from DBT, Govt. of India

• Best Innovative Ph.D. Project Award, 2016 from Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE).

• Best Oral Presentation Award in International Conference on Nanotechnology: Ideas, Innovations and Initiatives, IIT Roorkee, India, 2017.

• ITS Grant from SERB (DST, Govt. of India), in 2016.

• Article on “Electrolithography” (Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 5, 17753) selected as show case article amongst 74 articles published on 4th Dec, 2015.

• Article on Controlled Material Transport and Multidimensional Patterning (Current Science, vol. 108 (12), pp. 2167, 2015) selected for cover page illustration.

• All India rank 17 in GATE 2010 (Joint Admission Test to M. Tech. at IITs)

• All India rank 55 in IIT JAM 2007 in Physics paper (Joint Admission Test to M.Sc. at IITs)

• All India rank 14 in JEST 2007 in Physics Paper (Joint Entrance Screening Test for Admission to PhD at various research institutes).

• National Merit Scholarship on the basis of 12th standard board examination Result.

• National Merit Scholarship on the basis of 10th standard board examination Result.

Invited talks

1. Advanced Nano-Patterning Using Scanning Probe Technology, Department of Materials Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, 12th Dec 2017.

2. ‘Study and control of electromigration driven material transport for Applications in Nanofabrication and Patterning’, Microsystems Laboratory (LMIS1), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 25th September, 2015.

3. ‘MATLAB programming’, Bangalore Institute of Technology (BIT), Bangalore, 27th July, 2016.