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I am a research associate in the research group of Professor Mahuya Datta at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India since October 2024.  From May to July 2025, I was a visiting researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin. My visit was hosted by Dr. Marc Kegel and supported by the BMS Math+ Hanna Neumann Fellowship.  I received my doctoral degree in 2024 from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, India. My doctoral thesis  ''On the Jones Polynomial, Khovanov Homology and the Cost Function Associated with Legendrian Knots in (R3,ξst)'' was supervised by Dr. Dheeraj Kulkarni. 

My research interests lie in low-dimensional topology, knot theory and contact geometry/topology. My doctoral thesis contains projects on the classification of Legendrian knots. My current projects focus on constructing a graph invariant for Legendrian knots and exploring contact surgery numbers of contact 3-manifolds.

Pronouns: She/her

A copy of my CV can be found here.

A copy of my doctoral thesis can be found here.

Tight contact:  monika18@iiserb.ac.in   

Overtwisted contact:  monika.yadav9413@gmail.com