Graduate

2016-2023

PhD in Physics Advisor: Prof Rana Adhikari
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

2019

Master of Science in Applied Physics
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Undergraduate

2012-2016

Bachelor of Technology, Engineering Physics
with honors Minor in Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT - B), Mumbai, India

Awards and fellowships

  • Department rank 3 (top 10 %) in my batch at the Department of Physics, IIT-Bombay.
  • Mitacs Globalink Summer Internship Summer research and travel funding for research at McGill University, Canada. (2015)
  • National Initiative on Undergraduate Sciences Funding to participate in a research initiation program conducted by Tata Institute for Fundamental Research and for research with eminent scholars in India. (2013)
  • All India Rank 128 in AIEEE 2012 with 99.99 percentile among \(\sim\)1.2 million students.
  • All India Rank 1309 in IIT-JEE 2012 with 99.73 percentile among \(\sim\)0.5 million students.
  • Top 1% in India in National standard examination in Physics (qualifying exam for National Physics Olympiad). (2012)
  • Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana Young Scientist Scholarship awarded by the Government of India to promote research in fundamental sciences. (2011)
  • Awarded the National Talent Search Examination fellowship by National Council of Educational Research & Training through an examination selecting top 1000 students in the country.