It is both a pleasure and a valuable learning experience to collaborate with graduate students from our department and beyond. In recent times, I have had the privilege of mentoring the following students:

I do not currently have undergraduate/postgraduate project positions available for external students.

Graduate Students

Deepanshu Bisht

PhD Student · 2024–ongoing

Research

Deepanshu is working on applications of effective field theory and Soft-Collinear Effective Theory to gravity and axion physics.

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Atanu Samanta

PhD Student · 2023–ongoing

Research

Atanu is working on certain aspects of axion effective field theory, with particular focus on issues related to gauge invariance, Ward identities, renormalization, and chiral currents.

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Postdocs Mentored

Siddhartha Karmakar

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2025–ongoing · PhD: TIFR, Mumbai

Research

His research focuses on various aspects of effective field theory.

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Masters Projects

2026 – 2027: K Surendhar (MSc), SCET for Scalar QED
2026 – 2027: Ananda Mishra (MSc), Evanescent Operators
2025 – 2026: Sumanth Neerchal (MSc), Renormalons
2025 – 2026: Shubham Kumar (MSc-PhD), Soft Collinear Effective Theory for Gravity
2024 – 2025: Mayank Mishra (BS-MS, Co-supervision with Prof. Swagata Mukherjee), Machine Learns about Soft Tracks
2024 – 2025: Sandipan Rakshit (MSc, Co-supervision with Prof. Arijit Kundu, Joined PhD at IITK), Superconductivity with Axions
2024 – 2025: Kavish Priolkar (BS-MS), Phenomenology of Wess-Zumino-Witten Interaction of Axions
2024 – 2025: Gourav Dutta (MSc, Joined PhD at TIFR (DTP)), RG Effects in Electroweak Phase Transition
2023 – 2024: Deepanshu Bisht (MSc-PhD, Joined PhD at IITK), Effective Field Theory of Axions , (arXiv:2412.09678)
2023: Sachiet Kapoor (MSc), Axion Photon Oscillation
2023: Atanu Samanta (MSc, Joined PhD at IITK), Neutron Star Cooling

External Project Students

2024 – 2025: Ankit Das (BS-MS, IISER Kolkata, Joined PhD at Texas A&M University).