Students

Current Students

Here is a list of students who are currently working with me for their doctoral degree

1. Akhila S (started Fall 2020)
2. AP Sreehari (started Fall 2020)

Undergraduate students

• Kartik Sunaad (will graduate summer 2023)
• Ainesh Sanyal from IISER Tirupati will do his Master's thesis under my supervision. Taking a non-IITM student is a first for me. Let's see how it goes. (will graduate summer 2024)
• Raghottam Kulkarni will be doing his Master's thesis under my supervision. (will graduate summer 2024)

Past students

2023

• Mohammed Shabbir defended his doctoral thesis titled "Lie algebraic decomposition of black hole partition functions" during April 2023

2022

Apoorva Singh

2021

1. Sourav Manna (M.Sc. thesis)
2. Yashodhan Manerikar (I am the co-guide and the guide is Nikolai Samus of Moskow State Univ)

2020

1. HN Samay (B. Tech. Thesis) — He is joining Syracuse for a PhD in Physics
2. Yash Bhusare— supervised by Avinash Deshpande of RRI with me as a co-guide(B. Tech. Thesis) — he is joining NCRA, Pune for a PhD in Astronomy.
3. Shivam Yadav (M.Sc. Thesis)

2019

1. Sutapa Samanta (Ph.D. 2019) — she is currently a post-doc at IACS Kolkata.

2018

1. Ratul Banerjee (M.Sc. Thesis 2018)
2. Sandip Biswas (M. Sc. Thesis 2018)

2017

1. Nishant Gupta (M. Sc. Thesis 2017)
2. Sumit Dey (M. Sc. Thesis 2017)

2016

1. Aniket Joshi (DD thesis 2016) (currently at U. of Alberta)
2. Varsha Subramanyan (M.Tech. thesis 2016) (currently doing her Ph.D. at UIUC)

2015

1. Prolay Chanda (MSc Thesis 2015) (currently doing his PhD at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore)

2014

1. Hersh Singh (M.Tech. thesis 2014) (currently doing his PhD at Duke)
2. G. Mounika (DD BS/MS thesis 2014) (currently doing her PhD at IISc)

2013

1. Medha Soni submitted her M. Sc. thesis in May 2013. (currently doing her PhD at Toulouse)
2. Mugdha Sarkar submitted his M. Sc. thesis in May 2013. (currently doing his PhD at Saha Institute)
3. Sutapa Samanta submitted her M. Sc. thesis in May 2013. (currently doing her PhD at IITM)

2012

1. Pramod Dominic defended his doctoral thesis during April 2012. He did most of his doctoral work with his other advisor, Dr. Prasanta K. Tripathy at IIT Madras.

2011

1. Naveen Sharma submitted his Bachelor's thesis titled On the asymptotics of some counting problems in physics in May 2011 and is currently in the doctoral program in Physics at Stonybrook University.
2. Srinidhi Tirupattur submitted his Master's thesis titled From quenched disorder to Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories in May 2011 and is currently in the doctoral program in Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
3. Rakesh Mazumder submitted his Master's thesis titled Gravitational wave and its detection in May 2011.

2010

1. K. Gopala Krishna submitted his doctoral thesis titled BKM Lie Superalgebras in N=4 supersymmetric string theory to the Homi Bhabha National Institute in October 2009 and defended it during early 2010. Currently he is a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics at Bonn.
2. K. Jayasree defended her doctoral thesis titled Equilibrium and dynamical properties of a polyelectrolyte chain during December 2010. She was essentially a student of my colleague Prof. P.B. Sunil Kumar and I was notionally a co-guide as it is called at IITM.
3. Akarsh Simha (Bachelor's thesis) — he is doing his Ph.D. in Physics at UT Austin.
4. Anupam Prasad (Master's thesis) — Masters at LMU, Munich.

2009

1. Yasir Iqbal (Master's thesis): He studied the spectrum of the (scalar) Laplacian on five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein manifolds such as $S^5$, $Y^{p,q}$ and $L^{p,q,r}$ that arise in the context of the AdS-CFT correspondence. He will be joining a group in Europe and will be working towards his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics there.
2. Aditya Arvind (Bachelor's thesis): He studied models of quantum dissipation such as the Caldeira-Leggett model. He has recently joined the U. of Texas at Austin as a graduate student.

2007

1. Kallingalthodi Madhu submitted his Doctoral thesis titled A perturbative study of the Leigh-Strassler deformations of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to IIT Madras during July-August 2007 and is currently a post-doc at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
2. Aswin K. Balasubramanian submitted his Bachelor's thesis during May 2007 and is currently a physics graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. His thesis work lead to my first ever publication with an undergraduate student — Class. Quantum Grav. 24 (2007) 6393-6415 (also arXiv:0707.4306 [hep-th]).
3. Sidharth Kshatriya submitted his Master's thesis during May 2007.

All

A complete listing of theses completed under my supervision along with pdf files when available is given here.

I have guided several Master's and Bachelor's theses. A complete listing of theses completed under my supervision along with pdf files when available is given here.