Sumit Sinha

Hi! I am a Postdoctoral researcher in Harvard SEAS (Applied Mathematics), working with Prof. Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan. My research interests include discovering physical mechanisms in out-of-equilibrium systems and  optimal design of functional materials. I utilize concepts from non-equilibrium statistical physics, optimal control theory, pde constrained optimization,  and deploy advanced numerical methods (automatic differentiation, adjoint methods for back propagation) for designing and regulating matter across scale.

Previously, I was a PhD student in the Department of Physics at UT Austin, where I was advised by Prof. Dave Thirumalai. My thesis, 'Theoretical and computational studies of growing tissues', dealt with non-equilibrium statistical and many-body physics of evolving tissues which play an important role in tumorigenesis and embryogenesis . 

Prior to this, I pursued my undergraduate degree in Physics at IIT Kanpur, India. For my Masters Project, I worked on problems related to Molecular Motors under the supervision of Prof. Debashish Chowdhury.