Driven by an early curiosity about the physical world and a passion for self-driven learning, I pursued my Bachelor’s degree in Physics at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, followed by a Master’s at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, where I was first introduced to quantum information. I obtained my PhD from the Physical Research Laboratory (degree conferred by IIT Gandhinagar), studying quantum phase transitions of ultracold atoms in low-dimensional traps and optical lattices. This sparked my broader interest in cold-atom quantum simulations of strongly correlated quantum matter.

Following a brief postdoctoral stint at PRL Ahmedabad, I joined the Pitaevskii BEC Center at the University of Trento, a renowned center for cold-atom research, where my research expanded into non-equilibrium universal dynamics, quantum chaos, and cold-atom simulations of exotic quantum many-body systems with intriguing connections to black-hole physics and holography. A central theme of my research has been understanding how strong interactions give rise to emergent complexity, unconventional quantum phenomena, and fundamental connections between quantum many-body physics and quantum information. I subsequently joined the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) as a postdoctoral researcher, further investigating questions at the interface of quantum statistical mechanics and quantum information.

My current research is driven by a fundamental question: How does complexity emerge from the underlying simplicity of quantum mechanics? I explore this question through quantum simulations of novel quantum matter, quantum chaos, thermalization, and quantum dynamics far from equilibrium. In April 2026, I joined the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, where I established the Quantum Simulation & Synthetic Quantum Matter (SynQSim) group, pursuing fundamental questions at the intersection of quantum many-body physics and quantum information.