I am currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at Northwestern University in the group of Prof. Dr. George C. Schatz. In the Schatz group, I am developing methods to study entangled two-photon absorption of molecules and plasmon-mediated chemical reactions. Prior to that, I had been working as a machine learning consultant in an artificial intelligence-based drug discovery industry Entos and a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Thomas F. Miller at Caltech, USA. During this period I had been implementing machine learning methods to accelerate the electronic structure calculations and discovery of novel molecules. I was fortunate to experience how the industry is using theoretical knowledge in society’s problems making a strong bond between the theory and applications in modern technologies and medicines.

I have been curious about scientific research since interacting with one of my school teachers (K. C. Pradhan) who used to motivate me on how science and chemistry explain nature around us. From that time I started realizing that we can understand our surroundings better and better by simply asking questions of course there is a bottom. After completing my school studies I went to Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, India (2013) to pursue my B.Sc in Chemistry. After that in 2015, I received my M.Sc degree in theoretical chemistry with best master thesis award from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. I have completed my doctoral thesis in July 2020 from Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany under the guidance of Prof. Jan Michael Rost. The major part of my thesis was dedicated to the development of machine learning frameworks to address emerging problems of ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy in the high-frequency regime.

Besides research, I am passionate about teaching and strongly believe that this is one of the best ways to share knowledge among people. I would like to evolve myself in teaching so that I can keep making connections that motivate young minds in the field of science and technology to address the contemporary and future problems of society.

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