I am currently the Ralph Faudree Postdoc in the mathematics department at University of Memphis (2023-2026). David Grynkiewicz is my mentor here. Before this I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Wyoming (2022-2023) where Jason WIlliford was my mentor.

I got my PhD. in Mathematics from University of Delaware in May 2022, under the supervision of Sebastian Cioabă and Michael Tait.  

Before that I got my Msc. Integrated at NISER, Bhubaneshwar, where my Master's thesis was centered around Design theory, during which I was advised by Kamal Lochan Patra.

My research is mainly in spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory, and extremal combinatorics. 

I can be reached at dndesai [at] memphis [dot] edu.