I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, located in Dharwad, Karnataka, India. My research focuses on Quantum Information Theory, mainly dealing with quantum correlations and quantum communication, using continuous-variable and many-body quantum systems and relativistic quantum information.
Associate Professor (12/2024 to Present), Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
Assistant Professor (09/2017 to 12/2024), Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
Assistant Professor (03/2016 to 08/2017), Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihta, Bihar, India.
Post-doctoral fellow (09/2015 to 02/2016), Atom-Chip group, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
INSPIRE Faculty (06/2012 to 03/2016), Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Post-doctoral fellow (02/2010 to 05/2012), Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ph. D (2004 to 2010), Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Karnataka, India.
Associate (2015-2018) of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru.
INSPIRE faculty (2012-2017) by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Second Best Presentation, 27th IPS Colloquium for Young Physicists (YPC-2009), Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, August 20-21, 2009.
Associate Dean, Administration and Material Management Division, September - 2024 onward.
Associate Dean, Students Welfare (Hostels), April - 2023 to May - 2024.
Associate Dean, Students Welfare, October - 2022 to April - 2023.
Head of the Department, Department of Physics, January 2022 to October 2022.
Senate Member, 2019 onwards.
Faculty Associate (Equivalent to HoD), Department of Physics, September - 2019 to January - 2022.
Hostel Associate Warden/Warden, August 2019 to October 2022.
Opportunities
Internships:
I host interns selected through the Science Academies Summer Research Fellowship Program for Students and Teachers program.
IIT Dharwad also offers summer internships: https://www.iitdh.ac.in/internships. The institute funds one intern per faculty!
If you have funding for internships through other agencies, please write to me.
PhD:
IIT Dharwad calls for PhD admissions twice a year (Autumn/Spring semesters) under the Teaching Assistant/Fellowship Awardee/Project Staff categories: https://www.iitdh.ac.in/phd
Post-doctoral Position:
IIT Dharwad funds one PDF position per faculty member. One can learn more about our iPDF positions at https://www.iitdh.ac.in/other-recruitments. Our group currently has no vacancy.