Faculty Information

The purpose of science is to understand our surroundings in a logical manner and apply this realization for the benefits of mankind. Broadly speaking, we aim to understand important and interesting natural processes; i.e., physical, chemical and biological functions, using statistical mechanical tools and dynamical systems theory and design efficient systems to perform the desired actions using the same. The first part of our research activity contributes towards basic sciences and the second part to technology.

Almost all natural processes occur through nonequilbrium paths and consequently, are subject to fluctuations. Therefore, it is very important to study the roles and properties of fluctuations to understand characteristic natural phenomena. The general research interest of the group is to perform proper analysis of fluctuations related to natural processes and also to figure out efficient control of fluctuations to design useful systems to carry out some intended functions. Currently our specific interests are on the study of chemical reaction networks and chemical computations from the perspective of stochastic and information thermodynamics, optimization of finite-time computation, transport over energetic and entropic barriers, study of simple fluids from the viewpoint of dynamical systems theory, exploring the linkage between global warming and economy to propose better strategies to control climate change.