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EDUCATION

April, 2016: Ph.D. in Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.

(Thesis: Interplay of Broken Symmetries and Quantum Criticality in Correlated Electronic Systems)

May, 2012: A.M. in Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.

July, 2005 - May, 2010: Integrated M.Sc. in Physics, IIT Kanpur, India.

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

February 2026 - onwards: Associate Professor of Physics (tenured), Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

July 2024 - January 2026: Joyce A.Yelencsics Rosevear '65 and Frederick M. Rosevear '64 Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

January 2020 - January 2026: Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

July 2019 - December 2019: Visiting Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

July 2016 - June 2019: Gordon and Betty Moore foundation Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA

July 2016 - June 2019: Visiting Research Associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 

AWARDS and HONORS

  1. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award (2025-2030)

  2. Scialog Fellow, Quantum Matter & Information, RCSA, 2025

  3. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics, 2023

  4. NSF CAREER Award (2023-2028)

  5. Gordon and Betty Moore foundation Fellowship (2016), awarded by MIT

  6. Graduate Society Research fellowship (2014-15), GSAS, Harvard University

  7. E.M. Purcell Fellowship (2010-2011), Harvard University

  8. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), Caltech, U.S.A

  9. Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana-KVPY (2006-10), Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India

  10. Academic Excellence Award- 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09, IIT Kanpur  

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