People

Faculty & PI

Vishwanath Shukla

Group Members

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Duryodhan Prusty (Ph.D., IIIT Bhubaneswar)

PhD Students

  • Suraj Kumar Nayak (M.Sc., VSSUT Burla), PMRF Fellow
    • Active matter physics, Turbulence, geophysical flows, soft matter experiments
  • Sudipto Bagchi (BS-MS, IISER Bhopal), PMRF Fellow
    • Statistical physics, active matter physics
  • Arunava Das (M.Sc., Jadavpur University)
    • Statistical Physics, Fluid Turbulence, Quantum Computing
  • Pinaki Dutta (jointly with Prof. K L Panigrahi)
    • Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems, string theory
  • Diganta Samanta (M.Sc., IIT Kharagpur)
    • Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems, Quantum Spin Liquids
  • Gaurav Kumar Srivastava (M.Sc., IIT Dhanbad)
    • Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter Physics
  • Biswajit Biswas (M.Sc., W.B. State University)
    • Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter Physics

External PhD Students

  • Sudip Das (M.Sc., IIT Kanpur)
    • Quantum Fluids
  • Maheswar Maji (M.S., IISc Bangalore )
    • Fluid turbulence, Machine learning

Master Thesis Students

  • [M.Sc. 2 yr] Sitanshu Priyadarshi, Dipam Das, Mahesh Kumar Pradhan, Choudary Sabar
  • [B.S.] Anwesha Barman
  • [B.Tech.] Harsh Rai (Ocean Engg. and Naval Arch.)

Internship Students

  • Baidehi Mandal (Biology, IISER Kolkata), Sabitri Panda (IISER Kolkata), Adrish Pati (NISER Bhubaneswar), Subinoy Saha (NISER Bhubaneswar), Sudipta Chattopadhyay (NIT Hamirpur), Mahesh Kumar Pradhan (IIT KGP), Choudary Sabar (IIT KGP)
  • Look Within 7O2 IIT KGP: Kewal Kumar, Harsh Rai, Sitanshu Priyadarshi, Dipam Das
  • DST-Rajasthan KARYA: Gauri Sharma (Biology), Devanshi Mathur (Biology), Chetna Maheswari (Biology), Suhani Singh Yadav (Biology), Hitesh Kumar, Jai Tripathi

Past Members

PhD Students

  • Chandra Shekhar Lohani (M.Sc., Kumaun University), 2026
    • Turbulence in rotating fluids, geophysical flows, fluid experiments, quantum fluids

Master Thesis Students

  • 2025-26: [BS-MS] Sparsh Gupta. [M.Sc. 2 yr] Tejas Apte, Sayantan Samanta, Tanmoy Bhakat
  • 2024-25: [M.Sc. 5 yr] Utpal Raj
  • 2023-24: [M.Sc. 5 yr] Ankit Kumar Jha, Auratrik Sharma, Seemran Panigrahy
  • 2022-23: [M.Sc. 5 yr] Shobhit Saheb Dey, Debarpita Jyoti. [M.Sc. 2yr] Diganta Samanta, Bhupendra Gupta
  • 2021-22: [M.Sc. 5yr] Aditya Vikram Singh; Amarnath Reddy; Karthik Subramaniam Eswaran; Viraj Nayak; Pooja Arakh. [M.Sc. 2yr] Anirban Kopty; Debasish Bag; Niles Mondal; Rimo Das; Subhadeep Bej. [B.Tech.] Archak Raghavendra Kaushik.
  • 2020-21: Ankush Patel, M.Sc. 2Yr ; D. Pavan Kumar, M.Sc. 5Yr; Mohit Singh, M.Sc. 5Yr; Sandeep Krishna, M.Sc. 5Yr

M.Tech. Thesis Students

  • Dipanwita Mitra. Machine Learning- Guided CVD and LPE Synthesis of MoS2. 2021-22.

Interns & Visitors

  • 2025: Aryan Mitra (IISER Kolkata), Sabitri Panda (IISER Kolkata)
  • Akshat Ahuja, M.Sc. 5yr, IIT KGP
  • Auratrik Sharma, M.Sc. 5yr IIT KGP
  • J Gopika, IISER Bhopal
  • Shobhit Saheb Dey, 2020-22, M.Sc. 5yr IIT KGP.
  • Sourangshu Ghosh, 2020-21B.Tech. (Int. Dual Degree), Civil Engg., IIT KGP.
  • Aarsh Dayal, M.Sc. 5Yr, Summer 2020, IIT KGP.
  • Akshay Shankar, 2021, BS-MS Physics, IISER Mohali.
  • Sayantan Dutta, MSc, IISER Kolkata. December 2019.