Former Postdocs of the Department

• Arpita Mal (Ph.D., Jadavpur University)

  Research area: Functional analysis, Geometry of Banach space
  Position at IISc: NPDF
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

• Sushil Singla (Ph.D., Shiv Nadar University), 2022 – 2022.

  Research area: Functional analysis, Operator algebras
  Position at IISc: Research Associate
  Current/next position: University of Primorska, Slovenia

• Chandan Biswas (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison)

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: Research Associate
  Current/next position: Post Doctoral Fellow at Chennai Mathematical Institute

• Rajesh Kumar Singh (Ph.D., IIT Kanpur)

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: To Be Updated

• Shivani Goel (Ph.D., IIT Madras)

  Research area: Linear algebra, Graph theory
  Position at IISc: NPDF
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor at IIT Madras Zanzibar Campus

• Jyotirmoy Ganguly (Ph.D., IISER Pune)

  Research area: Representation Theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Post Doctoral Fellow at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• Biltu Dan (Ph.D., ISI), 2021 – 2023.

  Research area: Probability Theory
  Position at IISc: Raman PDF
  Current/next position: Inspire Fellow, IISc, Bangalore

• Gargi Ghosh (Ph.D., IISER Kolkata), 2021 – 2022.

  Research area: Operator Theory
  Position at IISc: Raman PDF

• Geethika Sebastian (Ph.D., IIT Hyderabad), 2019 – 2022.

  Research area: Functional Analysis
  Position at IISc: UGC Kothari
  Current/next position: Instructor, IISc, Bangalore

• Mrigendra Singh Kushwaha (Ph.D., IMSc, Chennai), 2021 – 2022.

  Research area: Representation Theory
  Position at IISc: Raman PDF
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, University of Delhi - South Campus

• Deb Kumar Giri (Ph.D., IIT Guwahati)

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: NBHM

• Gouranga Mallik (Ph.D., IIT Bombay), 2018 – 2022.

  Research area: PDE, finite element method
  Position at IISc: Raman PDF
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, VIT, Vellore

• Anoop V. P (Ph.D., NISER Bhubaneswar), 2020 – 2022.

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: NPDF
  Current/next position: Visiting Scientist, ISI, Bangalore

• Kiran Kumar Behera (Ph.D., IIT Roorkee), 2019 – 2022.

  Research area: Operator Theory
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, NISER, Bhubaneshwar

• Sudip Bera (Ph.D., Visva-Bharati University), 2018 – 2022.

  Research area: Algebraic Graph Theory, Algebraic combinatorics
  Position at IISc: NBHM/DST
  Current/next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, TIFR, Mumbai

• Projesh Nath Choudhury (Ph.D., IIT Madras), 2018 – 2022.

  Research area: Matrix theory, in connection with positivity and combinatorics
  Position at IISc: NBHM/NPDF/Raman PDF
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

• Sumana Hatui (Ph.D., HRI, Allahabad), 2019 – 2022.

  Research area: Group Theory, Schur multiplier
  Position at IISc: Raman PDF
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, NISER Bhubaneswar

• Divya Khurana (Ph.D., IIT Kanpur), 2019 – 2022.

  Research area: Geometry of Banach spaces, greedy-type approximation algorithms
  Position at IISc: UGC Kothari
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, IIM Ranchi

• Debmalya Sain (Ph.D., Jadavpur University), 2021 – 2022.

  Research area: Geometry of normed linear spaces
  Position at IISc: NPDF
  Current/next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad de Granada, Spain

• Sneh Bala Sinha (Ph.D., HRI, Allahabad), 2018 – 2022.

  Research area: Number Theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Guest Faculty, SRM University

• Sajal Kumar Mukherjee (Ph.D., Visva- Bharati University), 2020 – 2021.

  Research area: Combinatorics (enumerative and topological)
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, TCG Crest, Kolkata

• Gianluca Faraco (Ph.D., University of Ferrera, Italy), 2020 – 2021.

  Research area: Low-dimensional topology
  Position at IISc: Raman PDF
  Current/next position: Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn

• Mamta Balodi (Ph.D., MNNIT Allahabad), 2019 – 2021.

  Research area: Quantum Algebra
  Position at IISc: Raman PDF

• Samir Shukla (Ph.D.), 2021 – 2021.

  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, IIT, Mandi

• G. Arunkumar (Ph.D., Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai), 2020 – 2021.

  Research area: Combinatorics, Infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, Spectral graph theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, IIT Madras

• Anupam Gumber (Ph.D., IIT Indore), 2019 – 2021.

  Research area: Frame Theory, Harmonic analysis and its applications, Time-frequency analysis, Approximation theory, Function spaces, Operator theory, Group representation theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Vienna

• Ramesh Manna (Ph.D., HRI, Allahabad), 2020 – 2021.

  Research area: Harmonic analysis
  Position at IISc: Kothari/Raman PDF/INSPIRE Faculty
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, NISER Bhubaneswar

• Anirudha Poria (Ph.D., IITG), 2019 – 2020.

  Research area: Applied Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: Bar-Ilan university, Israel

• Tamal Pramanick (Ph.D., IITG), 2019 – 2020.

  Research area: Numerical analysis, PDE, FEM
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: NIT, Calicut

• Bikramaditya Sahu (Ph.D., NISER), 2019 – 2020.

  Research area: Algebraic combinatorics, Finite geometry
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, NIT Rourkela

• Srijan Sarkar (Ph.D., ISI), 2019 – 2020.

  Research area: Multivariate operator Theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: INSPIRE Faculty, IISc

• Kuldeep Kumar Kataria (Ph.D., IITB), 2018 – 2018.

  Research area: Probability and Stochastic processes
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, IIT Bhilai

• Arun Maiti (Ph.D., University of Leipzig, Germany), 2018 – 2020.

  Research area: String Topology, Symplectic Geometry
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT, Kharagpur

• Aiyappan S. (Ph.D., IISc, Bangalore), 2017 – 2019.

  Research area: Partial differential equations
  Current/next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Fraunhofer-ITWM, Germany

• Gopal Datt (Ph.D., University of Delhi), 2017 – 2020.

  Research area: Nevanlinna theory, Several complex variables
  Position at IISc: Kothari/SJF/NPDF
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University

• Qaiser Jahan (Ph.D., ISI), 2017 – 2017.

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis, Wavelets
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: IIT, Mandi

• Abhash Kumar Jha (Ph.D., NISER), 2017 – 2019.

  Research area: Number theory
  Position at IISc: NPDF
  Current/next position: IIT, BHU

• Vishnu Priya Nataraj (Ph.D., Bharathidasan University), 2017 – 2020.

  Research area: Nonlinear integrable systems, Solitons
  Position at IISc: Kothari

• Tanmay Sarkar (Ph.D., IITM), 2017 – 2018.

  Research area: Partial Differential Equations and Numerics
  Current/next position: IIT, Jammu

• Abhitosh Upadhyay (Ph.D., Guru Gobind Indraprastha University), 2017 – 2020.

  Research area: Semi-Riemannian geometry, Biconservative and Biharmonic submanifolds
  Position at IISc: NPDF
  Current/next position: IIT Goa

• Asha Kisan Dond (Ph.D., IITB), 2016 – 2020.

  Research area: Partial Differential Equations
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: IISER, Thiruvananthapuram

• Tathagata Banerjee (Ph.D., Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany), 2015 – 2017.

  Current/next position: ISI, Bangalore / CUSAT

• A. Sathish Kumar (Ph.D., IITR), 2015 – 2016.

  Research area: Approximation Theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: VNIT, Nagpur

• K. Kalaivani (Ph.D., University of Madras), 2015 – 2016.

  Current/next position: VIT, Vellore

• Dipendu Maity (Ph.D., IITP), 2015 – 2019.

  Research area: Combinatorial Topology
  Position at IISc: Kothari/NBHM
  Current/next position: IIIT, Guwahati

• Sumit Mohanty (Ph.D., IITK), 2015 – 2017.

  Research area: Analysis on Graphs, Spectral Graph Theory
  Current/next position: GITAM Visakhatam /IISER, Thiruvananthapuram

• Samrith Ram (Ph.D., IITB), 2015 – 2015.

  Research area: Combinatorics
  Current/next position: IIIT, Delhi

• Kaustubh Manchanda (Ph.D., JNU), 2014 – 2017.

  Research area: Combinatorics
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: Azim Premji University, Bangalore

• R. Manikandan (Ph.D., Cochin), 2014 – 2015.

  Research area: Stochastic Analysis
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: Central University Kerala, Kasargod

• Chandan Pal (Ph.D., IITB), 2014 –

  Research area: Stochastic Analysis
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: IIT, Guwahati

• Anuradha Jha (Ph.D., IITK), 2013 –

  Research area: Numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations
  Current/next position: IIIT, Guwahati

• V. K. Sohani  (Ph.D., HRI), 2013 – 2016.

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: IIT, Indore

• R. Lakshmi Lavanya (Ph.D., Madras), 2012 – 2015.

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: IISER, Tirupati

• Micah Miller (Ph.D., CUNY, USA), 2012 – 2014.

  Research area: Topology
  Position at IISc: CPDF
  Current/next position: Texas State University

• Thomas Richard (Ph.D., Grenoble, France), 2012 – 2013.

  Research area: Differential Geometry
  Position at IISc: IISc RA
  Current/next position: Université Paris-Est Créteil

• Soumen Sarkar (Ph.D., ISI), 2012 – 2012.

  Research area: Topology
  Position at IISc: CPDF
  Current/next position: KAIST, Korea/IIT Madras

• T. V. Anoop (Ph.D., IMSc), 2011 – 2012.

  Research area: Partial Differential Equations
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: IIT, Madras

• David Michael Farris (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, USA), 2011 – 2012.

  Research area: Topology
  Position at IISc: IISc RA
  Current/next position: NCBS/Indian Foundatiion of Arts

• H. S. Gupta (Ph.D.), 2011 – 2013.

  Research area: Numerical Analysis, PDE
  Position at IISc: NBHM

• Sameer Kamal (Ph.D., TIFR), 2011 – 2012.

  Research area: Applied probability
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: IIT, Guwahati

• Venku Naidu (Ph.D., IITM), 2011 – 2012.

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: IIT, Hyderabad

• Dhanya Rajendran (Ph.D., TIFR), 2011 – 2014.

  Research area: Partial Differential Equations
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: IISER, Thiruvananthapuram

• Rajesh Srivastava  (Ph.D., IITK), 2011 – 2012.

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: IIT, Guwahati

• Bappaditya Bhowmik (Ph.D., IITM), 2010 –

  Research area: Complex analysis
  Position at IISc: Kothari
  Current/next position: IIT, Kharagpur

• Arijit Chakrabarty (Ph.D., Cornell, USA), 2010 – 2010.

  Research area: Probability
  Position at IISc: CPDF
  Current/next position: ISI, Kolkata

• Ashisha Kumar (Ph.D., IITK), 2010 – 2013.

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: DST
  Current/next position: IIT, Indore

• K. Nidhin (Ph.D., Calicut), 2010 – 2013.

  Research area: Stochastic processes
  Position at IISc: Kothari

• Manoj K Yadav (Ph.D., IITM), 2010 – 2012.

  Research area: Applied analysis, Nonlinear PDE
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Mahindra University, Hyderabad

• Sudheesh Chethil (Ph.D., IITM), 2009 – 2010.

  Research area: Dynamical systems
  Position at IISc: IISc RA
  Current/next position: IIST, Thiruvananthapuram

• Aparajita Dasgupta (Ph.D., York, Canada), 2009 – 2010.

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: DST
  Current/next position: IIT, Delhi

• Sanjoy Pusti (Ph.D., ISI), 2009 – 2010.

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: UGC
  Current/next position: IIT, Kanpur/IIT, Bombay

• Ranja Sarkar (Ph.D., Pune), 2009 – 2009.

  Research area: Mathematical finance
  Position at IISc: DST
  Current/next position: TheMathCompany

• Hemangi Shah (Ph.D., IITB), 2009 –

  Research area: Differential Geometry
  Position at IISc: CPDF
  Current/next position: HRI, Allahabad

• Subash Chandra Martha (Ph.D., IITG), 2007 – 2010.

  Research area: Fluid dynamics
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: IIT, Ropar

• T. Muthukumar (Ph.D., Madras), 2007 – 2008.

  Research area: Partial Differential Equations
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: IIT, Kanpur

• Tejaswi Navilarekallu (Ph.D., Caltech, USA), 2007 – 2008.

  Research area: Number theory
  Position at IISc: CPDF

• P. Palaniyandi (Ph.D., Bharathidasan University), 2007 – 2007.

  Research area: Nonlinear dynamics
  Position at IISc: DRDO
  Current/next position: Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli

• Muslim Malik (Ph.D., IITK), 2006 – 2008.

  Research area: Differential Equations
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: IIT, Mandi

• Shrihari Sridharan (Ph.D., Manchester), 2006 – 2007.

  Research area: Complex dynamics
  Position at IISc: IMI
  Current/next position: IISER, Thiruvananthapuram

• Anuradha Narasimhan (Ph.D., Pune), 2005 – 2006.

  Research area: Algebraic number theory
  Position at IISc: IMI

• Karabi Sikdar (Ph.D., IIT KGP), 2005 – 2007.

  Research area: Queueing theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore

• V. V. K. Srinivas Kumar (Ph.D., IITK), 2005 – 2008.

  Research area: Scientific computation
  Position at IISc: DST
  Current/next position: IIT, Delhi

• Sachi Srivastava (Ph.D., Oxford (D. Phil.), UK), 2005 – 2006.

  Research area: Functional Analysis
  Position at IISc: IISc RA
  Current/next position: Delhi University

• P. Danunjaya (Ph.D., IITB), 2004 –

  Research area: Finite element method

• Anita Naolekar (Ph.D., ISI), 2004 – 2008.

  Research area: Algebraic Topology
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: ISI, Bangalore

• D. Narayana (Ph.D., Paris), 2004 – 2007.

  Research area: Functional Analysis
  Position at IISc: NBHM

• Deepak Sridhara (Ph.D., Notre Dame, USA), 2004 –

  Research area: Coding theory
  Position at IISc: IMI

• N. Gnaneshwaran (Ph.D., IITB), 2003 –

  Research area: Numerical Analysis
  Position at IISc: NBHM

• Sara Mohanty (Ph.D., University of California at Riverside), 2003 –

  Research area: Topology
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: East Los Angeles College

• Saroj Panigrahi (Ph.D., Behrampur University), 2002 – 2004.

  Research area: Difference/Differential Equations
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: University of Hyderabad

• Philippe Pitteloud (Ph.D., Université de Genève, Switzerland), 2001 – 2002.

  Research area: Number theory
  Position at IISc: IISc RA

• Rajesh Mahadevan (Ph.D., Chennai), 2000 – 2002.

  Research area: Homogenization, PDE
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Universidad de Concepcion, Chile

• P. V. Ushakumari (Ph.D., CUSAT), 1998 – 1999.

  Research area: Stochastic Modelling and Analysis

• K. Kolwankar (Ph.D., Pune), 1997 –

  Research area: Fractional calculus, Nonlinear dynamics
  Position at IISc: DST

• Geetha P. Ramaswami (Ph.D., Cambridge, UK), 1996 – 1998.

  Research area: Numerical Analysis, ODE, Dynamical systems
  Position at IISc: NBHM

• A. K. Vijayarajan (Ph.D., ISI), 1996 – 1998.

  Research area: Index theory of von Neumann algebras
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: Kerala School of Mathematics, Kozhikode

• S. C. Mandal (Ph.D., NBU), 1994 – 1995.

  Research area: Elastic and viscoelastic waves
  Position at IISc: JNCASR

• M. P. Joy (Ph.D.), 1993 – 1995.

  Research area: Chaos and nonlinear waves
  Position at IISc: NBHM

• G. Sethuraman (Ph.D., Bombay), 1992 – 1994.

  Research area: Nonlinear dyifferential equations
  Position at IISc: NBHM

• Raju K. George (Ph.D., IITB), 1991 – 1994.

  Research area: Nonlinear functional analysis, Control system theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM
  Current/next position: IIST, Thiruvananthapuram

• D. Palaniappan (Ph.D., Hyderabad), 1991 – 1994.

  Research area: Nonlinear phenomena, Shallow water equations
  Position at IISc: NBHM

• S. Sundar (Ph.D.), 1991 – 1994.

  Research area: Partial Differential Equations, CFD
  Position at IISc: IISc RA
  Current/next position: IIT, Madras

• Dharmendra Kumar (Ph.D., IIT Gandhinagar)

  Research area: PDEs
  Position at IISc: IOE

• Manoj Kumar (Ph.D., IIT Delhi)

  Research area: Harmonic Analysis
  Position at IISc: NBHM

• Ramlal Debnath (Ph.D., Indian Statistical Institute), 2023 – 2024.

  Research area: Operator Theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM PDF
  Current/next position: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Mathematics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

• Pinakinath Saha (Ph.D., Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI))

  Research area: Algebraic geometry and Representation theory
  Position at IISc: NBHM PDF
  Current/next position: Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

• Sumit Arora (Ph.D., IIT Roorkee)

  Research area: Nonlinear Analysis, Control Theory, Controllability and observability of dynamical systems
  Position at IISc: IOE
  Current/next position: Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Talca, Chile