What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

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I am currently a Research Fellow (hosted by Prof. Divesh Aggarwal), at the School of Computing, NUS, funded by the NUS-NCS Joint Laboratory for Cybersecurity since January 2023. Before that, I was a Visiting Fellow at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), located in Chennai, India (Oct'22-Dec'22). I finished my Ph.D. (Aug'2018 - Aug'2022) in Computer Science from CMI, where I was fortunate to be advised by  Prof. Nitin Saxena (IIT Kanpur).  During my PhD, I was supported by Google PhD Fellowship (2018 -2022), and was a Visiting Research Fellow at IIT Kanpur. I obtained my master's degree in Computer Science (2016-18) and bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (2013-16) from CMI.  

Here is my CV (updated in July 2024). Check my DBLP here. 

I am a co-organizer of the NUS AlgoTheory Seminar. If you want to give a talk on topics related to theoretical computer science (broadly put), please shoot an email.

My Erdős number  is 3 (Paul Erdős -> Noga Alon  -> Sourav Chakraborty ->  P.D.).

I often pen down my thoughts mostly through poems  (both in Bengali and English).  Check my blog.  

Recent News:

June 2024: Gave an invited Plenary talk at the Oberwolfach Meeting on Complexity Theory [Featured in Oded Goldreich's Choices][slides].

June 2024: With Sumanta Ghosh (CMI), we wrote an invited survey article "Advances in Polynomial Identity Testing" in the SIGACT News Complexity Theory Column [pdf].

December 2023: Won the ACM India 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Award.

September 2023: Gave an invited talk at RTCA, organized at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.

July 2023: Together with Prof. Christian Ikenmeyer, we organized a 1-day satellite workshop on Algebraic Complexity Theory, held on 10th July, at ICALP 2023.

Motivating questions that guide my research: