Life
A timeline of education, research, and milestones.
Big Bang: from where it all started.
I am born, in the state of Jharkhand in India.
I start my schooling at Delhi Public School Ranchi.
I get selected for the International Mathematics Olympiad Training camp at the age of 16, being the youngest among all the 30 students nationwide.
I graduate from my secondary school.
I start my undergraduate in Engineering Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
I go to NISER Bhubaneswar for my first internship in Experimental Particle Physics.
I go to CERN as a summer student to work with the ATLAS collaboration.
I get accepted for my masters in Physics at ETH Zurich.
I complete my undergraduate.
I go to Harvard University as a research assistant to work with the DUNE neutrino group.
I start my Master's in Physics at ETH Zurich, along with the semester project with the muon EDM group at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.
COVID-19 hits the world.
I complete my semester project.
I plan to shift my research field from High Energy Physics to Quantum Engineering.
I start working on an additional semester project with the Quantum Optics group of Prof. Esslinger at ETH.
I partly participate in the QuHACK 2021.
This website goes live.
I complete my semester project and start working as a research assistant in the Spin Imaging group at ETH.
I complete my work as a research assistant at Degen Lab.
Semester ends and I go on my first one-week solo trip to Valais in Switzerland.
I start my master's thesis at Harvard in the Lukin group.
I fabricate my first Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide Quarter-Wave Resonator from scratch!
My first paper as a second co-author, from my work with the Harvard Neutrino Group in 2019, goes live on arxiv :D
I complete my master's thesis at Harvard.
I graduate from my masters studies at ETH Zurich.
I start working as a research assistant at the Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, in Prof. Peter Lodahl's group.
My second paper as a third co-author, from my work with the Quantum Sensing group at ETH Zurich in 2021, gets published in the Nanoscale Advances of the Royal Society of Chemistry :D
Today I went to the Assistens Cemetery to meet Niels Bohr, the place where he was buried. To pay my respects. "To learn from the dead, then thou shall be more alive "
Today Prof. Donna Strickland visits our lab. And that is how I met a Nobel Laureate in Physics for the first time. What makes it even more special is that she is one of the only three women in the history of Physics to win a Nobel Prize, after Marie Curie. So quite a cool day!!
I complete my work at the Niels Bohr Institute.
I start working in Prof. Dirk Englund's Quantum Photonics group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I submit my first-author patent application in collaboration with Prof. Peter Lodahl and Prof. Anders S. Sorensen on spin quantum dots. Exciting!!
I briefly meet Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle, Physics Nobel Laureate at MIT, as he very kindly agrees to write a congratulation note for my friend's Ph.D. defence. Such an awesome person!
I filed my second patent application, this one with MIT on Microwave single-photon detection. The corresponding first-author paper goes live on arXiv!!!
I get accepted into the MIT EECS PhD program!!!!! 🥹🥹
Thanks to Prof. Englund, I publish a paper in collaboration with Prof. Kaiming He, who is the inventor of RESNET, and the most cited Professor at MIT, third most cited in the field of Machine Learning.
I work remotely over the summer for my Professor's AI based startup, Axiomatic_AI on Automated Theorem Provers.
You are here and I am most probably watching "The Batman Begins" in Boston.