Professional Background
- July 2026 - till date: Professor; S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
- June 2022 - June 2026: Associate Professor; S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
- February 2020 - June 2022: Assistant Professor; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram
- April 2018 - February 2020: DST INSPIRE Faculty; S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
- October 2015 - January 2018: Post Doctoral Fellow; Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Educational Background
- PhD (Quantum Foundations), 2016, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata [Degree awarded by Calcutta University]
- M.Sc. (Physics), 2010, Jadavpur University
- B.Sc. (Physics Honours), 2008, Jadavpur University
Grants/ Fellowships:
- Member-PI of National Quantum Mission (NQM), DST
- Chanakya Post Doctoral Fellowship, I HUB Quantum Technology Foundation
- Start-up Research Grant, SERB
- INSPIRE Faculty Award
- Joint CSIR UGC Test (NET, 2009: Physical Sciences)
Area of Research:
- Quantum Information Theory
- Quantum Communication
- Quantum Technology
- Quantum Foundations
Significant Recent Publications:
- R. K. Patra et al; Quantum Incompatibility in Parallel versus Antiparallel Spins; Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110402 (2026)
- S. G. Naik et al; No-go theorem for generic simulation of qubit channels with finite classical resources; Proc. A 482, 20250831 (2026)
- M. Alimuddin et al; Ergodiscord: An operational and distinct notion of quantumness of correlations; Phys. Rev. Research 7, 023200 (2025)
- A. Chakraborty et al; Scalable and noise-robust communication advantage of multipartite quantum entanglement; Phys. Rev. A 111, 032617 (2025)
- C. Ding et al; Quantum advantage: A single qubit's experimental edge in classical data storage; Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 200201 (2024)
- S. B. Ghosh et al; Quantum Nonlocality: Multicopy Resource Interconvertibility and Their Asymptotic Inequivalence; Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 250205 (2024)
- J. Joshi et al; Experimental verification of many-body entanglement using thermodynamic quantities; Phys. Rev. A 109, L020403 (2024) [Letter]
- Z. Ma et al; Randomness-free Test of Non-classicality: a Proof of Concept; Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 130201 (2023)
- S. G. Naik et al; Distilling nonlocality in quantum correlations; Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220201 (2023)
- R. K. Patra et al; Principle of information causality rationalizes quantum composition; Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110202 (2023)
- S. G. Naik et al; Composition of Multipartite Quantum Systems: Perspective from Timelike Paradigm; Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 140401 (2022)
- S. Puliyil et al; Thermodynamic Signatures of Genuinely Multipartite Entanglement; Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 070601 (2022)
- M. Banik et al; Multicopy adaptive local discrimination: Strongest possible two-qubit nonlocal bases; Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210505 (2021)
- S. Halder et al; Strong Quantum Nonlocality without Entanglement; Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040403 (2019)
- S.S. Bhattacharya et al; Random-Receiver Quantum Communication; PRX Quantum 2, 020350 (2021)
- G. Chiribella et al; Indefinite causal order enables perfect quantum communication with zero capacity channel; New J. Phys. 23, 033039 (2021)
Group Members [Present & Past]:
PhD Students
- Rafiuddin Gazi (2025 - till date)
- Biswadeep Chatterjee (2025 - till date)
- Jayashree Karmakar (2025 - till date)
- Kunika Agarwal (2024 - till date)
- Snehasish Roy Chowdhury (2022 - till date, under Co-supervision)
- Ananya Chakraborty (2022 - till date)
- Dr. Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik (2022-2026; Presently Post-Doc at University of Montreal, Canada)
- Dr. Samrat Sen (2020 - 2025; Presently Post-Doc at Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
- Dr. Ram Krishna Patra (2020-2025; Presently Post-Doc at HUN-REN Atomki, Hungary)
- Dr. Sutapa Saha (2018-2024, under Co-supervision; Presently Post-Doc at HRI, India)
- Dr. Ananda Gopal Maity (2016-2022, under Co-supervision; Presently Assistant Professor at IIT Goa)
Post-Doc/ Research Scientists
- Dr. Anandamay Das Bhowmik (2026 - till date)
- Dr. Subhendu B Ghosh (2025- till date)
- Dr. Ananda Gopal Maity (2025, Presently Assistant Professor at IIT Goa)
- Dr. Pratik Ghosal (2024-2026; Presently Post-Doc at HRI, India)
- Dr. Mir Alimuddin (2021-2024; Presently Marie Curie fellow at ICFO Barcelona, Offered Assistant Professorship at Bose Institute, Kolkata)
- Dr. Amit Mukherjee (2023; Presently Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur)
- Dr. Arup Roy (2019-2020; Presently Assistant Professor at Hooghly Mohsin College)
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