NISER

• Ph.D, Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. 
• M.Sc, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
• B.Sc, Midnapore College.

Algebra

• ANRF-Start Up research grant (2023-2025).
• CV Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship, IISc Bangalore (2021).
• SERB-NPDF Fellowship, Govt. of India, (2020) (Not availed).
• NBHM Post Doctoral Fellowship, DAE, Govt. of India, (2018).
• Infosys Prize for excellence in research in Group Theory at HRI Prayagraj (2018).
• Harish-Chandra memorial award for securing first place in Pre-Ph.D course work in Mathematics (2015).
• NBHM-Ph.D scholarship, DAE, Govt. of India.
• Qualified IIT-JAM, CSIR-UGC NET, GATE.
• Merit-cum-mean Scholarship at IIT Guwahati.

1. (With Poonam Nayak) On the Faithful Projective Representations of Finite Groups and their Minimal Dimension, arXiv:2605.27280. (Submitted)
2. (With T. N. Mavely and S. Sabnam) On the Schur multiplier of p-groups with abelianization s-elementary abelian, arXiv:2605.00810. (Submitted)
3. (With S. Mukherjee and K. L. Patra) On the deep commuting graph of a finite group, arXiv:2511.13303. (Submitted)
4. (With V. Chhajer and P. Sharma) Finite groups with nearly half as many cyclic subgroups as elements, Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences (2026) Accepted for publication. arXiv:2506.21163.  
5. On Projective representations of special p-groups, Journal of Group Theory, (2026) Accepted for publication.
6. (With G. Kaur and S. Sabnam) On the Twisted group Ring Isomorphism problem for a class of groups, Journal of Algebra, 664 (2025), 223-250.
7. (with E.K. Narayanan and P. Singla) Projective representations of Heisenberg groups over the rings of order p^2, Journal of Group Theory, 27 (2024), no. 2, 413–442. 
8. (with E.K. Narayanan and P. Singla) On Projective Representations of Finitely Generated Groups, Communications in Algebra, 51 (2023), no. 5, 1994-2003. 
9. An exact sequence and triviality of Bogomolov multiplier of groups, Journal of Algebra, 619, (2023), 199-220. 
10. (with P. Singla) On Schur multiplier and projective representations of Heisenberg groups, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 225 (11) (2021) 106742. 
11. Schur multipliers of special p-groups of rank 2, Journal of Group Theory, 23 (2020), 85-95. 
12. (with V. Kakkar and M. K. Yadav) The Schur multiplier of groups of order p^5, Journal of Group Theory, 22 (4) (2019), 647-687.
13. Characterization of finite p-groups by their Schur multiplier, Proceedings- Mathematical Sciences.128 (4) (2018), Art. 49, 9pp. 
14. (with L. R. Vermani and M. K. Yadav) The Schur multiplier of central product of groups, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 222 (10) (2018), 3293-3302. 
15. Finite p-groups having Schur multiplier of maximum order, Journal of Algebra, 492 (2017), 490-497.

 Projective representations of finitely generated groups, Structures of Twisted group rings, Schur multiplier, Non-abelian tensor product of groups, Central extensions of groups.

PhD students:

•  Poonam Nayak. (PhD, 2023-)
•  Sahanawaj Sabnam. (PhD, 2022-)

Post Doctoral Fellow:

• Dr. Tony Nixon Mavely (August 2025 - March 2026)

Master Thesis 

• Simran S Azim, Int. MSc-PhD (2025-2026)

Semester Project:

• Simran S Azim, Int. MSc-PhD, Spring 2025.
• Anindya Sundar Das, Int. MSc-PhD, Spring 2026. 

Long-term project student

• Vaibhav Chhajer, JRF (ANRF-SRG grant)(March-Dec, 2025)

Summer Projects: 

• JyotiRani Sahoo, University of Hyderabad, May-July, 2026. 
• Nandini Sharma, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, May-July, 2025. 
• Palash Sharma, IISER Mohali, May-July 2025.
• Anitya Bibhab Sri Bairagi, NISER Bhubaneswar, May-July 2025.
• Pankaj Ghodge, NISER Bhubaneswar, May-July 2025.
• Sukanya Priyadarsani Majhi, NIT Rourkela, May-July 2023.

Courses Taught at NISER

• MAT601-Algebra-I (Fall-2026), Ph.D.
• M307, MAT806- Field Theory (Spring-2026) Int. M.Sc. + Int. Ph.D.
• M484, MAT877- Commutative Algebra (Fall-2025) Int. M.Sc. + Int. Ph.D.
• M402, MA851-Representations of finite groups (Spring-2025) Int. M.Sc. + Int. Ph.D.
• MA802-Module Theory (Fall-2023) Int. Ph.D. 
• M402-Representations of finite groups (Spring-2023) Int. M.Sc.
• MA701-Linear Algebra (Fall-2022) Int. Ph.D.

Other Teaching Activities

• Algebra, Summer Outreach Programme in Mathematics(SOPM), NISER, June 2026.
• Projective Representations of Groups, AIS - Schur Multiplier and Representation Theory,  HRI, Prayagraj, December 4–16, 2025.
• Representation Theory, AIS - Representation Theory, CMI, June 20–July 9, 2022.

• Convener, SMS Library committee (2025-2027).
• Member, Selection committee for Int. MSc-PhD students (2026).
• Member, Swachhata Hi Seva Committee (2025-2028).
• Member, Screening Committee for Administrative Staffs (2025).
• Member, Screening committee for shortlisting PhD applications (2023, 2025).
• Member, Screening Committee for Technical Staffs (2023).
• Member, Monitoring committee for Int. MSc-PhD students (Batch 2023, 2024).
• Member, Monitoring committee for PhD students (Batch 2022).
• Member, PGCS-SMS (2022-2024).
• Member, Summer Program (SOPM), SMS (2022-2025).

Workshop/Conference Organised:

• Conference on Group Theory and Related topics, February 27-March 04, 2023, NISER Bhubaneswar (with Binod K. Sahoo, Kamal L. Patra, Tushar K. Naik).
• Women in Maths:  Progress and challenges,  7-8 May, 2022, Online (with Dilpreet Kaur and Pooja Singla).

Sponsored Projects:

• Funding Organization: Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India; Amount: Rs.13,64,601/- (Sanction order No. SRG/2023/000894)  Duration: 24 months (2023-2025).