Sumit Sinha

Hi! I am a Postdoctoral researcher in Harvard SEAS (Applied Mathematics) and Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Data Science), working with Prof. Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Prof. Cheng Zhong Zhang respectively. 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.