Team

PhD Students

• Arup Biswas
  M.Sc. Physics (Jadavpur University → IMSc*)
  PhD Program: 2022 – Present

Thesis: Stochastic resetting

* currently at Harvard University

• Vishwajeet Kumar
  M.Sc. Physics (S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences → IMSc)
  PhD Program: 2022 – Present

Thesis: Activation and escape processes in interacting systems

• Suvam Pal (Jointly supervised with Prof. Dibakar Ghosh)
  M.Sc. Physics (RKMVERI, Belur → Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
  PhD Program: 2023 – Present

Thesis:  Extreme statistics, resetting and  first-passage

• Jitin Rajoria
  M.Sc. Physics (IIT Madras → IMSc)
  PhD Program: 2024 – Present

Thesis: Target search in living systems

• Rahul Das
  M.Sc. Physics (IMSc → IMSc)
  PhD Program: 2025 – Present

Masters, project & summer students (ongoing)

• Karthik C, BS-MS Physics (IISER Pune) -- Ongoing. Theme of the project: Mpemba effect 

• Anvitha Bhat, BS-MS Maths (IISER TVM) -- Ongoing. Theme of the project: Thermodynamic Inference

Alumni

• Dr. Reshmi Roy, Ph.D. Physics (University of Calcutta) → Postdoc (IMSc)

• Ishitaa Bhagwat, BS-MS (IISER Pune) -- Completed. Theme: Biomolecular transport.

• Anoushka Singh, BS-MS (BITS Pilani) -- Completed. Theme: Markov dynamics.

• Rahul Das, Int PhD Physics (IMSc) -- Completed. Theme: Active systems.

• Shaliaja Nautial, BS-MS (IISER Berhampur) -- Completed. Theme: Statistical biophysics.

• Rohan Ravindran, BS (Shiv Nadar Univ) -- Completed. Theme of the project: Rudiments of non-equilibrium process.

• Meghaja K, Btech (NIT Calicut) -- Completed. Theme of the project: Diffusive transport.

• Rajashree Borah, MSc Physics (Tejpur Univ) -- Completed. Theme of the project: Mpemba effect.

• Manoj Negi, Int PhD Physics (IMSc) -- Completed Masters Thesis. Thesis title: Statistics of dwell time in chemical reactions. Current affiliation: Scientific Officer at Bhaba Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 

• Mrinmoyee Saha, MSc Physics (IIT Hyderabad) – Completed. Theme of the project: Transport properties under stochastic resetting. Current affiliation: Graduate student at the Aalto University, Finland

• Karthik C, BS-MS Physics (IISER Pune) -- Completed. Theme of the project: Mpemba effect. Current affiliation: University of Göttingen. 

• Shuvajit Khatua, MSc Physics (IIT Hyderabad) – Completed. Theme of the project: Stochastic thermodynamics. Current affiliation: PhD student at Raman Research Institute.

• Rahul Mallikarjun, BSc Physics (St. Stephens College, Delhi)  – Completed. Theme of the project: Chiral random walk, transport and first passage. Current affiliation: Masters student at CEA Saclay and ENS, Paris.

• Siddharth Jain, MS Physics (IIT Kanpur)  – Completed Masters Thesis. Thesis title: Diffusion in microheterogeneous environments. Current affiliation: Graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

• Pankaj Kumar, BS Physics (IIT Kanpur)  – Completed Undergraduate Thesis. Thesis title: Statistical properties of random walk with resetting.

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