Elected Graduate Representative in the Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 2006 and 2007 (consecutive terms)
Elected Graduate Representative, The Colloquium Committee, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 2007
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN PHYSICS, TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH, MUMBAI, INDIA, 2003-2004
“Preselected”** for PhD in Physics at TIFR [**Preselection: ~4 students invited in advance to join the incoming class of 2003 based on an examination and research performance during the Visiting Students’ Research Program (summer 2002)]
Recipient: Kanwal Reiki Fellowship Award
MASTER OF SCIENCE (PHYSICS), INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (DELHI), NEW DELHI, INDIA (2003)
Chief Editor, Physics Society Magazine, IIT-Delhi, 2002-2003
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (PHYSICS HONORS, FIRST CLASS), ST XAVIER’S COLLEGE, CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA, INDIA (2001)
Physics Honors with Chemistry and Mathematics (First Class)
INDIAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAM, LA MARTINIERE FOR GIRLS, KOLKATA, INDIA (1998)
General Proficiency Award, 1996
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MEMBER OF FACULTY, GEORGE EDCARE, KOLKATA, INDIA, SUMMER 2003
Verbal and Quantitative Classes for GRE, GMAT and SAT preparation
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics Seminar: “Patterns of Organization in Stochastic Intergenerational Dynamics”, Rice University, 2026
“A more perfect status quo”: 4th Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics, 2025
Physics Colloquium: “Emergent Simplicities in the Living Histories of Individual Cells”, Purdue University, 2024
Theory Seminar (Whiteboard talk): “Emergent Simplicities in the Living Histories of Individual Cells”, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 2023
“Emergent song: the polyphonies of living timekeepers”: Symposium Session on Variability in Biological and Living Systems, APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2023
Biophysical Dynamics Seminar:“Non-Trivial Status Quo: Stochastic Homeostasis, Growth and Form”, UChicago, 2023
Biophysics Seminar: “From intra- to inter- generational scaling laws governing long-term stochastic individual cell dynamics”, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2022
3rd Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics, 2022
[Virtual] 2nd Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics, 2021
[Virtual] PNNL Data Analytics Summit, 2021
[Virtual] Keynote Talk, CauloCon 3.0, 2021
[Virtual] World Microbe Forum, invited session on Quantitative Approaches in Microbial Evolution and Ecology, 2021
[Virtual] Physics Colloquium: “How Life Shapes Time”, CCNY, 2021
[Virtual] Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminar: “Non-Trivial Status Quo: Stochastic Homeostasis, Growth and Form”, Rockefeller University, 2021
[Virtual] SMatCH Seminar: “Non-Trivial Status Quo: Stochastic Homeostasis, Growth and Form”, Princeton CBE, 2021
[Virtual] “Stochastic intergenerational cell size homeostasis: Precision measurements, exact kinematics and emergent simplicities”: Symposium Session on Theory Meets High-Precision Biology: Emergent Simplicity in Stochastic Organismal Dynamics, APS March Meeting 2021
[Virtual] Biophysics Seminar: “How Life Shapes Time”, Augusta University, 2021
[Virtual] Center for Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar: “How Life Shapes Time”, UT Austin, 2021
[Virtual] 2nd Annual Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics (WOST II), Santa Fe Institute, 2021
[Virtual] Dual Mystery Seminar: “How Life Shapes Time”, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 2020
Aspen Winter Conference on Cell Growth Control, Aspen Center for Physics, 2020
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics Program on Cellular Energetics, Santa Barbara, 2019
JSMF-SFI Workshop on Aging in Single Cells, Santa Fe Institute, 2019
Physics Colloquium: “From frozen to flowing time”, UC Merced, 2019
Aspen Workshop on Information Processing in Single Cells, Aspen Center for Physics, 2019
Cell and Molecular Biology Seminar: “Precision biology and the emergent simplicities in stochastic individual-cell dynamics”, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 2019
1st Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics, 2019
Santa Fe Institute Colloquium: “How Life Shapes Time”, Santa Fe, 2019
Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology at Ventura, 2019
Physics Colloquium: “Emergent simplicity in stochastic individual-cell dynamics”, Virginia Tech, 2018
Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics Seminar: “Making the right ‘noise’”, Virginia Tech, 2018
Physics Colloquium: “Emergent simplicity in stochastic individual-cell dynamics”, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2017
Santa Fe Institute Complexity Seminar: “Making the right ‘noise’”, Santa Fe Institute, 2017
Telluride Workshop on The Complexity of Dynamics and Kinetics from Single Molecules to Cells, 2017
NSF-QCB Workshop on Cells as Dynamical Systems, San Francisco, 2017 “Emergent simplicity in stochastic single-cell dynamics”: Focus Session on Noise and Stochastic Fluctuations in Biological Systems, APS March Meeting 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana
Genetics Seminar: “Bridging the scales of individual-cell and population growth”, Washington University in St. Louis, 2016
Santa Fe Institute Complexity Seminar: “Universality in stochastic single-cell dynamics”, Santa Fe Institute, 2016
Telluride Workshop on Information Engines at the Frontiers of Nanoscale Thermodynamics, 2016
“Bridging the scales of single-cell and population growth”, MidQBio Symposium, UIUC, 2016
NIMBioS Working Group: Caulobacter Cell-Cycle Model, 2016, Knoxville, Tennessee
Physics Colloquium: “Universality in stochastic single-cell dynamics”, Purdue University, 2016
Center for Soft Matter Research Seminar: “Universality in stochastic single-cell dynamics”, New York University, 2015
Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar: “Bridging the scales of single-cell and population growth”, Virginia Tech, 2015
Colloquium: “Universality in stochastic single-cell dynamics”, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2015
Biophysics Seminar: “Universality in stochastic single-cell dynamics”, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, 2015
Telluride Workshop on Single Molecules: Theory Meets Experiment, 2015
Physics of Living Cells Seminar: “Not your average bacteria”, UIUC, 2014
Short Talk at Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology at Ventura, 2013
Institute of Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: “Expecting the unexpected from stochastic gene regulatory networks”, UIUC, 2011
Biophysics Seminar: “Making the right ‘noise’”, Department of Physics, Princeton University, 2009
Invited lecturer, qbio summer school, Colorado State University, 2017
Invited tutorial lecture: Gene Mazenko Symposium: 2014, Chicago; topic: “Non-equilibrium fluctuations in living matter”
Invited lecturer, qbio summer school, St John’s College, Santa Fe, 2013
DEPARTMENTAL COURSES TAUGHT
Stochastic Processes in Physics (PHYS570Q) Course designed and taught in the following semesters: Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Quantum Mechanics (PHYS360, PHYS460) Course designed and taught: Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018 and Fall 2022
SELECT OTHER SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE
Series concept: Telluride Science Workshop series on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics, Telluride Science and Innovation Center, Telluride, Colorado
Invited Advisory Board member of the James S. McDonnell Foundation-Santa Fe Institute theme on Complex Time: Adaptation, Aging, & Arrow of Time, 2019
Co-organizer: Aging in Single Cells, Santa Fe Institute Workshop, 2020
Co-organizer: NIMBioS Working Group: Caulobacter Cell-Cycle Model, 2016
Volunteer, Food Pantry Service, Connection Point Church, West Lafayette, 2025—
Youth group leader, Next Gen ministry, Connection Point Church, West Lafayette, 2025—
SELECT FACULTY SERVICE IN THE DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY
Appointed external member, Department Head Search Committee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University (2017-2018)