Teaching & Supervision

Teaching

• Ashoka University

  1. Electricity and Magnetism in the Light of Relativity (Monsoon 2021, Monsoon 2022, Monsoon 2023)

  2. Mathematical Physics I: Mathematical and Computational Toolkit (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)

  3. Mathematical Physics II (Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

  4. Mathematical Physics III (Spring 2025)

  5. Quantum Mechanics (Monsoon 2024)

  6. Introduction to Modern Cosmology (Spring 2022)

  7. Introduction to General Relativity with Application to Cosmology (Monsoon 2022, Monsoon 2023, Monsoon 2024)

• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 

  1. General Relativity and Cosmology (January -- April 2015): Taught the Cosmology part for half the semester

  2. Classical Mechanics (PHY102): Tutor

  3. Electrodynamics (PHY103): Tutor

• Elsewhere

  1. Tutor for the course 'Physics of the Early Universe' at SERC Main School for High Energy Physics at BITS, Pilani, December 2015

Supervision 

• Ph.D. students:

  1. Umang Kumar (2021 -- till date)

  2. Debadyuiti Ghosh (2023 -- till date)

  3. Prashant Kumar Bai (2024 -- till date)

  4. Archana Santosh (SRG-SERB JRF) (2024 -- till date)

• Postdocs:

  1. Dibya Chakrabory  (Presently a Postdoc at the Physics Department, IIT Madras)

  2. Nur Jaman (Presently an Assistant Professor at Dhruba Chandra Halder College, Calcutta University)

• ASP Thesis (Undergraduate Advanced Major Thesis) @Ashoka

  1. Kamal Nayan, Thesis title: Embedding Ultra Slow-roll in Warm Inflation (Submitted: April 2023)

  2. Anjali Madangarli (selected as Inlaks Scholar 2024), Thesis title: Exploring Inverse Power Law Potentials in Warm Inflation (Submitted: April 2024)

  3. Dhruv Aryan, Thesis title: Warm Inflation in a Bianchi Type I Universe (Submitted: April 2025)

• M.Sc. Thesis @IIT Kanpur

  1. Soumak Maitra, Thesis title: Evolution of scalar metric perturbations due to free streaming particles in the light of f(R) gravity theories (Submitted: April 2016)

  2. Shiladitya Porey, Thesis title: Analysis of plausible pre-inflationary eras (Submitted: April 2016)

  3. Sudipta Dutta, Thesis title: Analysis of reheating of the Universe after inflation (Submitted: April 2017)

  4. Deep Bhaduri, Thesis title: A Jordan frame analysis of inflationary observables in Higgs Inflationary scenario (Submitted: April 2017)

  5. Ritankar Chatterjee, Thesis title: Propagation of Gravitational Waves in modified gravity theories (Submitted: April 2017)

  6. Lavanya Kumar Guha, Thesis title: Revisiting Electroweak Inflation (Submitted: April 2018)