Category: Faculty & Staff Spotlight

Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Global Arts, SIAS, served as a mentor for the Baari Dance Festival 2025, held from 12–14 December in Chennai—a weekend celebrating dance, dialogue, and meaningful collaborations. She also facilitated a workshop titled ‘Courting Cultures’ at the festival, where she explored the cosmopolitan past of early modern South India, tracing the multicultural influences embedded within Sadir. Drawing on interactions with Islamic lineages, as well as Persian, Dakhni, Marathi, West Asian, and European traditions, the workshop highlighted how South India’s artistic practices are deeply interconnected and collectively inherited.

A short essay titled ‘Writing, Music and the Art of Close Reading’ by Dr Dipanjali Deka, Visiting Assistant Professor, Krea-CWP, has been published in the ‘Origin Stories’ series of the Critical Writing Pedagogies newsletter. The newsletter is a collaborative publication of the Undergraduate Writing Programme at Ashoka University and Krea-CWP.

In this reflective piece, Dr Deka explores the shared sensibilities that connect writing with singing and reading with listening.

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Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has recently published an article in Scroll.in on Tom Stoppard, a giant of modern British theatre, who passed away recently.

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He also published an article connecting the centenary of Ritwick Ghatak with the unveling of the infamous SIR exercise in Bengal for The Federal. 

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Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy and Associate Professor, Literature and Arts has been invited by Shiv Nadar University – School of Law in Chennai to teach in their practitioner semester. Dr Dasgupta’s sessions will be on on Peer Collaboration and Review in the process of writing and revision.

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Professor Chiranjib Sur, Visiting Professor, Computer Science, SIAS recently presented a paper ‘Accelerating Temporal Triangle Counting and Betweenness Centrality on GPUs’ (in collaboration with IIT Chennai, IIT Ropar and Shell) in 29th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC2025).

Another research paper titled Energy-Aware Runtime Resource Harmonizer for Co-running Applications by Professor Sur ( in collaboration with IIT Delhi and Shell) was nominated for the ‘Distinguished Paper Award’ at HiPC 2025 (IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics). Professor Sur was also invited for a keynote talk at the Workshop at Supercomputing India Conference held on 10 December 10 2025. He was also the General Vice-Chair on the 32nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, & Analytics held between 17-20 December 2025.

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Professor Sureshchandar G S, Adjunct Professor, Operations, IFMR GSB has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious Baldrige Foundation’s 2026 Award for Leadership Excellence in Education by The Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Washington DC. This award recognises exceptional leadership in the promotion of performance excellence across the globe and is given to individuals who have contributed outstanding service on a sustained basis, or a single achievement of a magnitude worthy of this recognition.

Dr Shanti Pappu, Adjunct Professor, Archeology and History, SIAS was invited to Paris to participate in and present at the International Conference ‘Technological behaviours of Hominins over Eurasia?’, held on 19–20 November 2025 and organised by M H Moncel. Dr Pappu jointly presented a paper titled ‘Persistent Places, Differing Trajectories: Exploring Lower Palaeolithic Technological Diversity in South India.’