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Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023.

Okay, so you did your 10th and 12th through the state government boards, then earned your bachelor's in physics from Calcutta. Go on.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them.

So after your bachelor's in physics from Calcutta, you went on to do your master's in physics as well. Where did you complete your master's, and what was your main area of focus during that program?

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article. For granted, Pat.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article. For granted, Pat. All of my. Published articles and. Five first author articles in P. From PHP. In two first of her conference proceedings. And one first author book chapter and one granted patent. And after that after completing the my PhD in 2023. After three months I have joined. Postdoc for my first postdoc in. Gist, Korea. The Deadpool. Postdoctoral Fellowship. So it was the date was like from 15th January 2024.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article. For granted, Pat. All of my. Published articles and. Five first author articles in P. From PHP. In two first of her conference proceedings. And one first author book chapter and one granted patent. And after that after completing the my PhD in 2023. After three months I have joined. Postdoc for my first postdoc in. Gist, Korea. The Deadpool. Postdoctoral Fellowship. So it was the date was like from 15th January 2024. And I completed this first post doc.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article. For granted, Pat. All of my. Published articles and. Five first author articles in P. From PHP. In two first of her conference proceedings. And one first author book chapter and one granted patent. And after that after completing the my PhD in 2023. After three months I have joined. Postdoc for my first postdoc in. Gist, Korea. The Deadpool. Postdoctoral Fellowship. So it was the date was like from 15th January 2024. And I completed this first post doc. In March 31st, 2025.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article. For granted, Pat. All of my. Published articles and. Five first author articles in P. From PHP. In two first of her conference proceedings. And one first author book chapter and one granted patent. And after that after completing the my PhD in 2023. After three months I have joined. Postdoc for my first postdoc in. Gist, Korea. The Deadpool. Postdoctoral Fellowship. So it was the date was like from 15th January 2024. And I completed this first post doc. In March 31st, 2025. During this 15 months of my first postdoc. I used to work ON Semiconductor physics. Mainly I used to work on off flow electronics related things. On TMDC materials.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article. For granted, Pat. All of my. Published articles and. Five first author articles in P. From PHP. In two first of her conference proceedings. And one first author book chapter and one granted patent. And after that after completing the my PhD in 2023. After three months I have joined. Postdoc for my first postdoc in. Gist, Korea. The Deadpool. Postdoctoral Fellowship. So it was the date was like from 15th January 2024. And I completed this first post doc. In March 31st, 2025. During this 15 months of my first postdoc. I used to work ON Semiconductor physics. Mainly I used to work on off flow electronics related things. On TMDC materials. WDC to WH2. Such kind of invoices. Monoliths. I used to see the optical properties of them. And after that I joined my. 2nd postdoc in. IIT Bombay, India.

Given your background in both core physics and electronics, what's one foundational concept in physics you especially enjoy teaching to undergraduates, and why does it resonate with you?

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article. For granted, Pat. All of my. Published articles and. Five first author articles in P. From PHP. In two first of her conference proceedings. And one first author book chapter and one granted patent. And after that after completing the my PhD in 2023. After three months I have joined. Postdoc for my first postdoc in. Gist, Korea. The Deadpool. Postdoctoral Fellowship. So it was the date was like from 15th January 2024. And I completed this first post doc. In March 31st, 2025. During this 15 months of my first postdoc. I used to work ON Semiconductor physics. Mainly I used to work on off flow electronics related things. On TMDC materials. WDC to WH2. Such kind of invoices. Monoliths. I used to see the optical properties of them. And after that I joined my. 2nd postdoc in. IIT Bombay, India. From 22nd April 2025 and it is now also going on. And and during this, uh. This second postdoc I used to work on polymer sand. I used to mail you work on PVDF electroactive polymers where I used to. News some I used to make some nanomaterials too. The cell interaction between them. We can we can generate more and more beta phase inside PVDF. So that we can use it for engineering or any other application purposes like same service and. And now the latest work we are working on the PBA PBDF. Uh, strain engineering.

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article. For granted, Pat. All of my. Published articles and. Five first author articles in P. From PHP. In two first of her conference proceedings. And one first author book chapter and one granted patent. And after that after completing the my PhD in 2023. After three months I have joined. Postdoc for my first postdoc in. Gist, Korea. The Deadpool. Postdoctoral Fellowship. So it was the date was like from 15th January 2024. And I completed this first post doc. In March 31st, 2025. During this 15 months of my first postdoc. I used to work ON Semiconductor physics. Mainly I used to work on off flow electronics related things. On TMDC materials. WDC to WH2. Such kind of invoices. Monoliths. I used to see the optical properties of them. And after that I joined my. 2nd postdoc in. IIT Bombay, India. From 22nd April 2025 and it is now also going on. And and during this, uh. This second postdoc I used to work on polymer sand. I used to mail you work on PVDF electroactive polymers where I used to. News some I used to make some nanomaterials too. The cell interaction between them. We can we can generate more and more beta phase inside PVDF. So that we can use it for engineering or any other application purposes like same service and. And now the latest work we are working on the PBA PBDF. Uh, strain engineering. So my mistresses. This is called the first time that we are doing. This kind of work when we are applying the thermal stresses on PBT.

Okay, you spent four years at NIT Durgapur working on your PhD in physics, starting in 2019. Out of all the topics you’ve taught or presented, is there a particular introductory physics concept you find students struggle with most—and how do you help them really “get it” in the classroom?

This is my. Professional studies slide. From 10th and 12th. State government. And followed by. I have completed my battery. Selects physics. From University of Calcutta. Then I did my masters in physics. Especially, it's an all electronics from Vidyasagar University which is also located in. And then I cleared the gate. And then I joined. National issue of Technology. Or a single. In physics department. For my PhD. I mean my PhD I have done. Research. Uh, basically like. In four years, from starting from 2019 to. 2023. Most couriers and these four years. Uh, my research was mainly focused on. Biomaterial Physics. Flight Chemistry. Where I immediately used to work on energy harvesting using. Nanostructures material which is called nanogenatus. Basically depends on limited treatment and tribunal treatment generators. Uh, in piezoelectric uh. Mansion enter city. I used to use the zinc sulfide. Nanostructures Gene ****. Side nanostructures. I used to grow those structures on aluminum substrates and then I used to make the device out of them. And then I used to do. Uh, several characterizations to. See their data structures, properties, topography, morphology. The D60 and all. And the last time used to prepare the device from them and we interrupted. Also same. And then I published. In my PhD, I published. 1st and 2nd author article. For granted, Pat. All of my. Published articles and. Five first author articles in P. From PHP. In two first of her conference proceedings. And one first author book chapter and one granted patent. And after that after completing the my PhD in 2023. After three months I have joined. Postdoc for my first postdoc in. Gist, Korea. The Deadpool. Postdoctoral Fellowship. So it was the date was like from 15th January 2024. And I completed this first post doc. In March 31st, 2025. During this 15 months of my first postdoc. I used to work ON Semiconductor physics. Mainly I used to work on off flow electronics related things. On TMDC materials. WDC to WH2. Such kind of invoices. Monoliths. I used to see the optical properties of them. And after that I joined my. 2nd postdoc in. IIT Bombay, India. From 22nd April 2025 and it is now also going on. And and during this, uh. This second postdoc I used to work on polymer sand. I used to mail you work on PVDF electroactive polymers where I used to. News some I used to make some nanomaterials too. The cell interaction between them. We can we can generate more and more beta phase inside PVDF. So that we can use it for engineering or any other application purposes like same service and. And now the latest work we are working on the PBA PBDF. Uh, strain engineering. So my mistresses. This is called the first time that we are doing. This kind of work when we are applying the thermal stresses on PBT. The Inter. Yeah, this is month. Academic. Introduction.

Alright, so your PhD research from 2019 to 2023 focused on biomaterial physics and energy harvesting using nanostructured materials, specifically nanogenerators. With that kind of background, when you first explain the idea of energy quantization to undergraduates, what approach do you use to make the concept click for them?

Professor, I noticed your 2022 publication in Nano Energy on the effect of surface and contact points modification in triboelectric nanogenerators. How has your work in optimizing these nanogenerator devices influenced the way you approach teaching device physics or energy harvesting topics to students?

That hands-on work with zinc sulfide nanostructures and device fabrication is quite advanced. Given your expertise, where do you see the most promising and fundable research directions in nanogenerator technology over the next few years, and which specific grants or agencies would you target to support that work?

So you grew zinc sulfide nanostructures on aluminum substrates, characterized their morphology, and then fabricated devices for energy harvesting. You mentioned publishing during your PhD—can you share how you decided which journals to target, and what strategies you used to maximize the impact and visibility of your research outputs?

Alright, so you handled synthesis, device fabrication, and published as both first and second author during your PhD. When you were targeting journals, how did you decide which ones would help your work gain the most visibility or citations—was it impact factor, audience, or something else?

Alright, so you published as both first and second author during your doctoral work, and you mentioned patents as well. How do you approach securing funding for interdisciplinary projects like yours, and which agencies or schemes do you think are most viable for supporting innovation in nanostructure-based energy harvesting?

You mentioned moving from your PhD straight into a postdoc in Korea, and that you’ve published as both first author and have a granted patent. Let’s shift to your teaching: imagine you’re teaching a core undergraduate device physics course to a large group, but you can’t use slides or traditional lectures. How would you design a session so students actually engage with the material, rather than just passively listen?

Alright, so you finished your first postdoc at GIST in Korea right after your PhD and have significant research output, including patents and publications. Let's talk about your teaching approach. Suppose you're assigned a large undergraduate physics course—say, device physics—but you cannot use slides or deliver a traditional lecture. How would you structure a session to make sure students are actually engaging with the material and not just passively listening?

Alright, so you wrapped up your first postdoc at GIST, with a solid track record in device fabrication and publication. Suppose you're teaching a session on device physics, but slides and traditional lectures aren't allowed—how exactly would you get 200 students actively wrestling with the core concepts during class?

Okay, so you spent your postdoc working on semiconductor physics and TMDC materials, after a strong research trajectory in nanostructures and device fabrication. Let's shift for a moment—suppose you have a group of disengaged students in your device physics class, and your active learning activity isn't working as planned. How would you assess whether your approach was effective, and what would you do to re-engage those students?

You described working on TMDC materials and optical properties during your postdoc, and then moving to IIT Bombay for a second postdoc. Let's pivot a bit, Professor. Accreditation cycles can be quite demanding—say you join our department and find that outcome assessment data is inconsistent across core physics courses. How would you approach fixing that?

Alright, so you transitioned to IIT Bombay and started focusing on PVDF electroactive polymers and strain engineering, building on a pretty diverse research background. Let’s get into institutional responsibilities for a moment—if you joined a department and discovered that the outcome assessment data for accreditation was inconsistent across several core physics courses, what’s the first thing you’d do to address and resolve that inconsistency?

Okay, so you’re doing some pretty cutting-edge work with PVDF polymers and strain engineering. Now, let’s get concrete—if you joined our department and discovered the outcome assessment data for several core physics courses was inconsistent, what’s the very first action you’d take to correct and standardize that process?

Alright, so you’re pioneering new work with thermal stresses on PVDF, and that’s clearly a strong research focus. Let’s change direction—how would you contribute to curriculum development here at VIT University, especially to make sure content stays aligned with both accreditation standards and advances in areas like theoretical physics and quantum computation?

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Alright, switching gears a bit. Beyond your teaching and research, what role do you see yourself playing in department-level governance—things like curriculum committees or program reviews?

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So you’re saying your expertise is more on the experimental and device physics side, not theoretical or quantum? Given that, how would you still contribute to curriculum improvement or alignment with accreditation—would you focus on lab courses, new electives, or something else?

Okay, so you’re saying your expertise is more on the experimental and device physics side, not theoretical or quantum. Given that, how would you still contribute to curriculum improvement or alignment with accreditation standards if you were part of the department’s curriculum committee?

You’re saying your expertise is more in experimental and device physics, rather than theoretical or quantum, so you’d focus your teaching on those strengths. But curriculum development often means stepping outside your specialty—what practical steps would you take to help align departmental content with accreditation standards, especially when the subject matter isn’t your primary area?

Okay, so you’d focus your teaching and curriculum input on areas where you’re confident—more experimental physics and device physics, less on advanced theoretical topics. But department service and accreditation are still part of the job. Accreditation cycles can be pretty demanding—let’s say you joined VIT and noticed that outcome assessment data was inconsistent across physics courses. What steps would you take to help fix that?

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Right, so your teaching approach is to bring your expertise in experimental physics and device applications directly into the classroom. Accreditation cycles can be demanding—for example, if you joined our department and found the outcome assessment data was inconsistent across courses, how would you approach fixing that?

OK, so. Yeah, so. Like as I said, like. This can be done.

OK, so. Yeah, so. Like as I said, like. This can be done. Start through, Amit. Through several talks.

So you’re saying “this can be done” — can you walk me through, step by step, how you’d actually address inconsistencies in outcome assessment data if you encountered them in the department?

OK, so. Yeah, so. Like as I said, like. This can be done. Start through, Amit. Through several talks. Basically, umm. Some I feel I have to interact with the. The students. To help them. So that. Adjustment can be.

So you're suggesting starting with department talks or meetings to address inconsistencies in assessment data. But can you walk me through, step by step, how you'd actually fix the data—like, what would you do first, who would you involve, and how would you make sure it's sustainable?

Alright, you mentioned interacting with students and starting some talks, but day-to-day accreditation work often means combing through course materials, aligning outcomes, and documenting everything for audits. What’s your familiarity with those concrete steps—like mapping course outcomes to program outcomes, or preparing evidence for accreditation visits? After you answer, we’ll shift to the next section.

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Right, so you’re thinking about mapping course interest and relevance, but accreditation is about formal process—collecting documentation, mapping learning outcomes, and showing evidence to auditors. Have you ever actually participated in an accreditation review or audit, maybe as part of a department committee or preparing materials for a visit? If so, what was your specific role?

So you're focusing on mapping student interests and making the curriculum more relevant to current needs, but you didn't mention hands-on tasks like preparing evidence or aligning documentation for audits. Let's shift focus. Given your work with nanomaterials and device fabrication, do you have any industry connections—like collaborations, consulting, or contacts—that could help students access internships or placement opportunities?

So you see curriculum mapping as essential to making the program relevant for students’ future jobs. Let’s pivot. Given your research in semiconductor device physics and nanogenerators, do you have any existing industry connections or collaborations that could help students with internships or placements in relevant companies?

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You mentioned collaborations with your South Korean postdoc advisor and your PhD supervisor at NIT Rourkela. Can you give an example of how you might actually leverage those connections to create an internship or industry project pipeline for students at VIT, rather than just academic collaborations?

So, let's talk theoretical physics for a moment. Suppose you were to design a graduate-level module introducing students to the fundamentals of quantum field theory, but half your class has only a basic quantum mechanics background. How would you bridge that gap in the first few weeks to get everyone up to speed for research-level topics?

Alright, you’ve got several international collaborations you could tap into for student research and internships. Now, shifting to machine learning—imagine you’re guiding a physics student who wants to use machine learning for materials property prediction, but they have no coding background. How would you help them get started so they can actually build and interpret a basic model?

Okay, so you’ve got collaborators in South Korea and NIT Rourkela, and you’re thinking about connecting students to projects or internships through those networks. For the machine learning piece—let’s say a physics student wants to use machine learning to analyze experimental data, but the dataset is small and noisy. How would you advise them to get robust results?

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Alright, so your approach is to try to understand why the data is noisy, repeat experiments to build up parallel datasets, and then use that for training — makes sense for a research setting. Now, thinking about quantum computation: imagine you’re preparing a lab for undergraduates where you want them to simulate a basic quantum algorithm, say Deutsch’s algorithm. How would you structure that lab so students really grasp what’s going on, not just run code blindly?

Okay, so if you’ve got a noisy piezoelectric output, your first move is to investigate the experimental setup itself—then, if you can’t fix the noise source, you’d run repeated experiments to build up enough parallel datasets for machine learning to actually work. That’s a solid research approach. Switching gears a bit—when you’re teaching a core undergraduate physics course and a student is really struggling with a foundational concept, how do you break it down for them without just giving them the answer?

Absolutely right question. So if. Someone had the problem of? Solving any problems or to understand any problem or physics problem which is very common. In our field I used to. Is the same issue, but what we used to do is. Like we have to. I I'll, I'll teach them. By giving. Series of examples. Or by hands. Idioms says are going to some random websites. To show them some models so that we can. At least tell them. Tell him that. OK, these are the. Things that is happening beside. Beside this problem then. We have to start from basics if it is not. He's not able to recall those bases. Then I have to start. From baby. Physics and I have to have two. Teaching from the basics that how it. Can be built up. From basics and how we can approach this problem for? For, for, for, for ultimate solution like. The real time. Where this kind of problem is useful so we can. Uh, real time problem. Then you can approach. Through this.

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Absolutely right question. So if. Someone had the problem of? Solving any problems or to understand any problem or physics problem which is very common. In our field I used to. Is the same issue, but what we used to do is. Like we have to. I I'll, I'll teach them. By giving. Series of examples. Or by hands. Idioms says are going to some random websites.

So, you try to empathize with students struggling with tough physics problems and guide them through your own past challenges. Can you give one concrete technique you use—like a classroom activity, analogy, or sequence of questions—to help them grasp a difficult concept, say, quantum tunneling?

So you mentioned using hands-on examples and sometimes pointing students to outside resources if they're struggling. Can you give me one concrete classroom activity or assignment you've used to help students bridge the gap on a tough physics concept—what was the concept, and what exactly did you have them do?

Alright, so you’d start with basics and build up, tying concepts to real-world problems when students get stuck. Let’s talk about quantum computation: if you were asked to design an introductory seminar for physics undergraduates, what key topics would you include, and how would you make something as abstract as superposition or entanglement accessible to them?

Alright, so you’ve built up a network of collaborators for research and student support. Earlier, you mentioned your PhD and postdoctoral work in nanostructures and device fabrication, but I need to hear more about your background in theoretical physics itself—can you walk me through a specific concept or model from theoretical physics that you’ve applied in your research, and how it shaped your results?

Absolutely. Like as I said that in my peers, you are like. For my throughout research I working on energy harvesting devices like piezoelectric or drive electric output. Management devices. So and these devices is purely based on the electronics. So how their circuit is behaving? How there this is the piezoelectric is acting as a parallel plate capacitor. So through this model we can interpret the output voltages. Theoretically so those theoretical concept is applying. Go through this thing. And it's not only experimental, but we have the knowledge, we should have the knowledge of experiment the the theoretical electronic, the solid-state electronics like let's say. Uh, the the sort key diode? The PN junction out how it can form, how the work function used to form so that we can. We can interpret that from walk function that how much? Tribulative voltage you can get how much dielectric current we can get from the device. With these kind of theoretical. Concept is used to. I used to. During my research I'm sorry for that, but I don't have any. Knowledge about this.

Absolutely. Like as I said that in my peers, you are like. For my throughout research I working on energy harvesting devices like piezoelectric or drive electric output. Management devices. So and these devices is purely based on the electronics. So how their circuit is behaving? How there this is the piezoelectric is acting as a parallel plate capacitor. So through this model we can interpret the output voltages. Theoretically so those theoretical concept is applying. Go through this thing. And it's not only experimental, but we have the knowledge, we should have the knowledge of experiment the the theoretical electronic, the solid-state electronics like let's say. Uh, the the sort key diode? The PN junction out how it can form, how the work function used to form so that we can.

Okay, so you’re drawing on solid-state physics and electronic device models like parallel plate capacitors and Schottky diodes to interpret the behavior of your nanogenerators. You touched on quantum mechanics earlier—have you had a chance to apply any concepts from quantum computation in your research, or is that more of a teaching interest at this point?

Thanks for being candid about that, Dr. Let’s talk about industry projects or consultancy—have you ever worked directly with industry partners on a physics-related project, or consulted for a company? If so, what was your role and what impact did your work have?

Oh yes, uh, in this my current version. Dog, I used to work with industry coach related to my census application. So here I was directly in charge of. Preparing one device or. Where you used to detect the. Detector signal. From piezoelectric or tribo. Devices at Wii. The device can tell you. Whether it is the device? She's working as piezoelectric or the device is working as triboelectric.

Oh yes, uh, in this my current version. Dog, I used to work with industry coach related to my census application. So here I was directly in charge of. Preparing one device or. Where you used to detect the. Detector signal. From piezoelectric or tribo. Devices at Wii. The device can tell you. Whether it is the device? She's working as piezoelectric or the device is working as triboelectric. Because in this industry. In this research, people used to. Report that every their material is. Pvda or any kind of polymers are giving piezoelectric. But what is happening when you touch any kind of material with your bare hands? There they have a work function difference between the device and your skin. Right and due to that there is a triboelectricity will also generate. So that. We think that this device every device. Give you visual appeal as well as strangulating. So if you want to. If you want to. Resolve this issue like if you want to. More sure about that the device is. Giving you piezoelectric. Or its triboelectric separately so the our device is. Can be capable of. Giving you the result. Instantly that if it is giving piezoelectric or triboelectric depending on the. Pick profile. The output voltage profile and there. The time gap between a signal. Positive and negative.

Alright, so you were directly responsible for building a sensor device that could distinguish between piezoelectric and triboelectric signals for an industry partner. What was the toughest technical challenge during that project, and how did you resolve it?

So you were directly responsible for designing a device that could distinguish between piezoelectric and triboelectric signals, even accounting for the work function difference between skin and the device itself. What was the toughest technical challenge you hit during that project, and how did you solve it?

OK, uh, so. You solve there is 2 solution is available. Now we used we first then give the solution. So first solution is you have to ground. At the top surface of your device and when you will touch. By your bare hand. Like if you want. To use this speed. Relative or tribulatory devices by. Mechanical Engineering register. So you have to install it in your. New skins, right? So to harvest. Make mechanical images from. When you are working when you are running right? And due to that if. You want only piezoelectric or only triboelectric you have. To solve this problem. So for that first. Solution is. You have to install. Some conducting tape. On the top and bottom surface and you have. You have to connect them and you have to ground them so that when you will touch it. All the tribulatory charges will directly go to the ground, right and. And the second solution is that. With our device that we are, we are in the process of. Uh, patenting and the process of making. Fabricating the device. So that device will direct depending on that T 1 -, t two which is the time difference of M. Voltage. Speak the, the the. Uh, the upper portion and then when it comes to down portion so that difference will difference is. Is for feasibility. It is slightly higher for tribulating, which is slightly lower for tribulating, which is slightly. One to 10 millisecond Highness per piezoelectricity. It is greater than 10 millisecond. So depending on that and time circuit we used we can we can say that this. Uh, this device is giving only piezoelectric or mixing signal, right? So these are the two solutions.

Alright, we're wrapping up. Is there anything you'd like to ask about the role or the team?

Yeah, absolutely. What will be my role? Which department are you doing? Slip it and bit confused. By the mail. And and uh, the second interview when it will be? Scheduled second interview and if it is possible, can we schedule it online?

Yeah, absolutely. What will be my role?

Yeah, absolutely. What will be my role? Which department are you doing? Slip it and bit confused. By the mail.

You’d be teaching and mentoring students in physics, running both classroom and lab sessions, guiding student projects, contributing to research, and taking part in departmental work—both academic and some admin. There’s a real emphasis on engaging students with current topics and supporting their growth. Anything else on your mind about the team or the environment here?

Fair question. The role is for Assistant Professor in Physics, so you'd be teaching and mentoring students in physics, running both classroom and lab sessions, guiding student projects, contributing to research, and taking part in departmental work—both academic and administrative. You'll have the chance to shape curriculum and support students in emerging technology areas as well. Anything else you'd like to know?