About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. My current research integrates synchrotron spectroscopy and physics-aware modelling with nanofabrication to uncover unconventional electronic and magnetic phenomena arising from the confluence of electron correlation and relativistic effects in low-symmetry topological devices.

Education

My primary probes are angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), which directly visualizes the momentum-resolved spectral function at the nanoscale, and X-ray photoemission electron microscopy (X-PEEM), used to image emergent magnetic order in the 2D limit for potential spintronics applications. I combine these with cleanroom nanofabrication to assemble van der Waals devices, and with statistical modeling and machine learning to extract physical insights from large beamtime datasets. Experiments are carried out at leading international synchrotron facilities: ALS (USA), BNL (USA), BESSY II (Germany), Synchrotron SOLEIL (France), and ALBA (Spain).

I received an integrated BS–MS in Physics from IISER Kolkata, India, where my master’s project examined the structural and vibrational properties of solids under low temperature and high pressure at the National Centre of High Pressure Studies (Prof. G. D. Mukherjee) and the Advanced Functional Materials Lab (Prof. S. Bhattacharyya).