CV

Academic curriculum vitae detailing my education, research interests, projects, and awards.

Contact Information

Name Anuprovo Debnath
Professional Title Third-year Undergraduate (BS-MS), Physics
Email ad23ms110@iiserkol.ac.in
Location C-117, NSCB Hostel,
IISER Kolkata , Kalyani, West Bengal 741246

Professional Summary

Third-year undergraduate student at IISER Kolkata with strong interests in plasma physics, nuclear fusion, and magnetic confinement of fusion plasmas. Actively involved in computational physics, spectroscopy-based plasma diagnostics, simulations, and scientific coding.

Experience

  • 2025 - Present

    Ahmedabad, India

    Research Intern
    Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad
    Developed a Python-based framework for extracting electron temperature (Te) and electron density (ne) from Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) plasmas using Boltzmann plots, Saha-Boltzmann analysis, and Stark broadening with NIST spectral data.
    • Calibration-free LIBS plasma diagnostics
    • LTE validation and self-absorption modeling
    • Machine-learning-based spectral line analysis
  • 2025 - Present

    Kolkata, India

    Student Researcher
    IISER Kolkata
    Simulating accretion disk dynamics around black holes in a relativistic framework under the supervision of Dr. Sudip K. Garain.
    • Relativistic fluid dynamics
    • Astrophysical simulations
  • 2025 - 2026

    IISER Kolkata

    Secretary
    Slashdot (Coding Club, IISER Kolkata)
    Leading technical and organizational initiatives for the coding club, including infrastructure projects and national-level events.
    • Hobbyist compute cluster using Proxmox and Kubernetes
    • Organized IBM-sponsored Qiskit Fall Fest 2025

Education

  • 2023 - Present

    Kalyani,
    West Bengal, India

    BS-MS
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
    Physics
    • Advanced Quantum Physics, Statistical Mechanics, Computational Physics, Stochastic Processes, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism, Optics (Theory and Lab), Electronics (Theory and Lab), Nuclear Physics Laboratory
    • Major in Physics; Minor in Mathematics and Computer Science
    • Strong foundation in theoretical and computational physics
  • 2021 - 2023

    Madhyamgram,
    West Bengal, India

    ISC (Class XII)
    St. Jude’s High School
  • 2020 - 2021

    Madhyamgram,
    West Bengal, India

    ICSE (Class X)
    St. Jude’s High School

Awards

  • 2025
    Smart India Hackathon (SIH)
    Government of India

    Team shortlisted for problem statement SIH25173.

  • 2024
    International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition
    IAAC

    Silver Honour recipient.

  • 2023
    DST INSPIRE Scholarship
    Department of Science and Technology, India

    Awarded for ranking in the top 1% in the ISC examination.

  • 2023
    National Entrance Screening Test (NEST)
    NEST Authority

    All India Rank 48.

  • 2021
    KVPY SA
    IISc

    All India Rank 2104.

Skills

Programming (Advanced): Python, C, Java, Fortran
Scientific Computing & Visualisation (Advanced): gnuplot, Matplotlib, ORIGIN
Web & Media (Intermediate): HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Blender
Typesetting (Advanced): LaTeX, Typst

Languages

English : Fluent
Bengali : Native
Hindi : Fluent

Interests

Physics: Plasma Physics, Nuclear Fusion, Magnetohydrodynamics, Optics and Spectroscopy, Astrophysics

Projects

  • Evaluating Plasma Parameters from a Typical LIBS Plasma

    Spectroscopic extraction of plasma parameters from LIBS plasmas using Boltzmann plots, Saha-Boltzmann analysis, and Stark broadening, with ongoing machine-learning enhancements.

    • Calibration-free LIBS
    • LTE validation
    • Machine learning framework
  • Hobbyist Compute Cluster (Slashdot)

    Building a sandboxed compute cluster using refurbished PCs to enable experimentation without affecting production systems.

    • Proxmox
    • Kubernetes
    • Linux systems

References

  • Dr. Prashant Kumar

    Scientist, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad

  • Dr. Sudip K. Garain

    Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata