Dr Rakesh Sengupta’s paper published in the ACOIT 2025 proceedings

A paper by Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS, titled ‘Evaluating Continuous-Time Recurrent Neural Networks for State-Dependent EEG Forecasting’ has been published in the proceedings of the 2025 2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Technologies (ACOIT). About the ResearchThe paper explores how short-term brain activity (EEG signals) can be more accurately predicted using lightweight AI …

Dr Suchika Chopra Dr Sabah Siddiqui author an opinion piece in The Hindu

Dr Suchika Chopra, Assistant Professor, Economics, SIAS, and Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS, have authored an opinion piece in The Hindu titled ‘India must use the AYUSH opportunity’. The article argues that India should strategically scale AYUSH globally by leveraging policy momentum and trade opportunities, while strengthening scientific validation, regulation, and credibility for sustained global …

Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury presents paper and chairs session at international conference

Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS, participated in South Asia Literature, Culture & Politics, an international conference organised by Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, at the India International Centre on 17–18 March 2026. He presented a paper on propaganda cinema titled ‘Statecraft as Pulp Fiction’. He also served as a Chair …

SIAS UG Cohort Present Research at FLAME Undergraduate Research Day 2026

On March 14, 2026, two groups of undergraduate students from SIAS had their abstracts selected for presentation at the second iteration of FLAME Undergraduate Research Day 2026, held at FLAME University, Pune. The first group, comprising Amandeep Singh (2023–27), Arush Menon (2024–28), Priyam Deorah (2023–27), Ria Vahab (2022–26), and Yashasvini Raj (2023–27), presented under the …

Dr Chirag Dhara authors an opinion piece in Scroll.in

Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, has authored an opinion piece in Scroll.in titled ‘India’s summer forecast is a warning that extreme heat can affect democracy’. In the article, he highlights the risk of what he terms “inequitable climate disenfranchisement,” pointing to how intense heatwaves during upcoming Assembly elections could impact voter participation. …

Dr Ramadas N publishes a research paper in Physical Review A

Dr Ramadas N, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Physics, Division of Sciences, SIAS, published a research paper titled Minimal decomposition entropy and optimal representations of absolutely maximally entangled states in Physical Review A. Abstract Understanding and classifying multipartite entanglement is fundamental to quantum information processing. This work focuses on absolutely maximally entangled (AME) states, a class of highly …

Dr Smriti Sharma publishes an article in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

Dr Smriti Sharma, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS, published an article titled Packing Pareshani or Healthcare? The Affective Dimensions of Digitalisation in India’s Health Sector in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. In this article, author examine how digitalisation in the health sector seeks to standardise care in the name of effective …

Dr C P Anil Kumar selected to train students for International Mathematical Competition for University Students 2026

Dr C P Anil Kumar, Associate Professor, Mathematics, SIAS, has been selected to train Indian students for the International Mathematical Competition for University Students 2026, to be held in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, from 27 July-3 August 2026. The students being trained have been selected from among those who excelled in the Madhava Mathematics Competition. Know more …

Abhayraj Naik co-authors a chapter published in Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law – A Guide for Practitioners

Abhayraj Naik, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies, SIAS, has co-authored a chapter titled South Asia: Rights of Nature in India and Bangladesh in the recently-released second edition of the book Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law – A Guide for Practitioners (Aspen Publishing). Know more

Professor S Sivakumar co-authors a journal article published in Physical Review A

Professor S Sivakumar, Dean – Research, and Professor, Physics, SIAS, has co-authored a journal article titled Generation of large Fock states from coherent states using Kerr interaction and displacement, published in Physical Review A. Technical Abstract We discuss a scheme to generate large Fock states. The scheme involves repeatedly applying an experimentally feasible unitary transformation …