Professional Experiences: 

• Assistant Professor , IISER Tirupati, India                                                       —2024- Continue                                

• Research Scientist,  Texas A&M University, Texas, USA.                               —2023 - 2024

• Associate Professor, Shandong University, Qingdao, China                            —2019-2023

• Postdoc, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA                                                 —2014-2019

Education:

• PhD,  Homi Bhabha National Institute- VECC, Kolkata, India                      —2014

• MSc, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India                                                   —2007

Honors:

• RHIC & AGS Merit Award 2020 (Citation: Pioneering contributions to the development of direct photon triggering techniques and their application to study of jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions)

Grant:

• ANRF-ARG funding on "Understanding the topological aspects of extreme QCD matter through their interactions with jets" (2026)

• Research Fund for International Young Scientists, NNSFC-2020

Community/Collaboration service:

• Physics board coordinator of  STAR Experiment [India ALICE-STAR Collaboration]  (2025- Continue) 

• Convener of Hard Probes physics working group in the STAR experiment ( 2022-  2025) 

• Referee of journals - IJMP, EPJ, etc.