Experience

1. Postdoctoral Scientist

   Cyber-Physical Systems in Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin April 2023 – Present

   at CPS-ME leading research on DIRC: Dynamics-Informed Reservoir Computing for DFG SPP 2353:

   • PyReCo - Designed and released the open-source PyReCo library.
   • Node Pruning - Algorithm that reduces network size while improving performance. Publications in Chaos 2025. Featured in AIP Scilight.
   • PDNE - Evolutionarily-guided efficient & sparse network framework outperforming large ML architectures (PRE 2025).
   • Digital Twins - for predicting nonlinear oscillator bifurcations and chaos from minimal sensor data (Nonlinear Dyn. 2024).
   • Physical ML Device - running on water ripples with a Raspberry Pi readout layer for energy-efficient, hardware-native computation.
   • Supervised 10+ theses in ML. Invited keynote at GACM 2025. Co-organizing RCC26, Berlin.

2. PhD in BioPhysics (Complex Networks and Dynamical systems focus)

   Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - caesar, Bonn. and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund. January 2019 – February 2023
   PhD thesis on developing a theory and novel framework to explain biochemical information processing in living cells with transients. Supervised by Dr. Aneta Koseska.
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3. Research Internship-3

   Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) Chennai, India May 2017 – July 2017
   on ‘Sprial Waves in 2D Kuramoto Model’ with Prof. Sitabhra Sinha

4. Research Internship-2

   IISER Mohali May 2016 – July 2016
   Cleanroom fabrication of Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices on LiNbO3 and silicon substrates: substrate preparation (solvent cleaning protocols), chip layout design (GDSII), and pattern transfer via electron beam lithography (EBL). Hands-on experience with analog piezoelectric computing substrates directly relevant to neuromorphic hardware fabrication.

5. Research Internship-1

   Central University of Rajasthan, India May 2015 – July 2015
   on ‘Suppression and Revival of Oscillations in a Network of Indirectly Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators’ with Prof. M. D. Shrimali

6. BS-MS in Physics

   Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India August 2013 – May 2018
   MS thesis in nonlinear-dynamics and chaos. Supervised by Prof. Sudeshna Sinha.
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