I work in the area of matrix analysis and total positivity, involving connections with analysis, combinatorics, and algebra.

Here is my [curriculum vitae] and my [Google Scholar].

Employment

• 2024 - current CRM-Laval Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
  Mentor: Prof. Javad Mashreghi

• 2024 - 2024 Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
  Mentor: Prof. Apoorva Khare

• 2022 - 2024 PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Regina, Canada
  Mentor: Prof. Shaun Fallat

Education

• 2015 - 2022 Integrated Ph.D. (Mathematics), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
  Ph.D. advisor: Prof. Apoorva Khare
  Thesis title: Positivity preservers forbidden to operate on diagonal blocks

• 2011 - 2014 B.Sc. (Hons.) First Division, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Selected fellowships/scholarships

• 2024 - 2026 Université Laval: CRM-Laval Postdoctoral Fellowship

• 2024 Indian Mathematical Society: P.K. Jain Award for 2024

• 2022 - 2024 University of Regina: PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Medium)

• Jan 2021 Indian Institute of Science: Professor K. Venkatchalaienger Scholarship

• Sep-Dec 2019 University of Regina: Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship

• 2015-2022 Indian Institute of Science: Institute Fellowship

Support (other)

• Aug 2025 BIRS-UBCO travel support to participate in a Focussed Research Group with 

Dominique Guillot, Himanshu Gupta, and Kyle Yip, on 

Algebraic positivity preserver problems at

BIRS-UBCO facility, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada

• Jul 2025 FPSAC travel support to participate and present a poster at
  FPSAC 2025, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

• May 2025 CanaDAM travel support to participate and speak at
  CanaDAM 2025, University of Ottawa and Carleton University

• July 2024 Indian Institute of Science travel support to participate and speak at

AESIM/CIMPA School on Linear Preservers, IISER Bhopal

• Feb-Nov 2024 SwarnaJayanti Fellowship support (PI: Apoorva Khare) from the
  Department of Science and Technology (DST) and SERB, Govt. of India 

• Feb-Mar 2024 SPARC travel support (Indian Institute of Science; PI: Tirthankar Bhattacharyya) to visit the
  University of Plymouth, UK.

• Jan 2024 PIMS and CAAC travel support to participate and present a poster at
  CAAC 2024, LACIM (UQAM) Montreal, Canada. 

• Dec 2023 PIMS and University of Regina travel support to speak at the
  CMS Winter meeting 2023, Montreal, Canada.

• Sept-Oct 2023 University of Regina travel support to visit and speak at
  Delaware, Drexel, Rutgers, William & Mary, and Pennsylvania, USA.

• Jul 2023         AIM travel support to participate and speak in an

AIM workshop on Theory and Applications of Total Positivity, CalTech, USA.

• Dec 2022 University of Regina travel support to speak at the
  CMS Winter meeting 2022, Toronto, Canada.

• Jun 2022 PIMS and University of Regina travel support to speak at the
  ILAS 2022, Galway, Ireland. 

Short academic visits

• Aug 2025 Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) and
  University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO), Kelowna, Canada

• Nov 2024 International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Edinburgh, UK

• Sep 2024 IISER Kolkata, India

• Aug 2024 IISER Bhopal, India

• Aug 2024 IIT Gandhinagar, India

• Feb-Mar 2024 University of Plymouth, UK

• Sep 2023 University of Delaware, USA

• Jul 2023 American Institute of Mathematics (AIM, CalTech Campus), USA

• Sep-Dec 2019 University of Regina, Canada (Queen Elizabeth Scholar)