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Currently, I am a postdoc in the research group of Professor Dr. hab. Maciej Borodzik, at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw. Prior to this, I was a research associate with Professor Mahuya Datta at the Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, from October 2024 to February 2026.  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.

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A copy of my CV can be found here.

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