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 …

Krea-CWP faculty conduct a Faculty Development Workshop at MCC

Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, and Dr Anakshi Pal, Visiting Assistant Professor, Krea-CWP, conducted a Faculty Development Workshop titled ‘The Body and Soul of Research Writing’ at the Madras Christian College (MCC), Chennai, on 11 March 2026.

Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar and Krea UG students at the Synapse neuroscience conference

Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS, delivered a talk titled ‘Graph-based and Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding Brain Health and Function’ as part of the Synapse neuroscience conference, held from 6-7 March 2026 at IISER Tirupati. Undergraduate students from Krea, Nidhi, Zoeya, and Kailash also presented their ideas during the ideathon held …

Dr Lakshmi Narayanan’s paper published in the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

A paper by Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, titled Global response of low and mid-latitude ionosphere to the severe geomagnetic storm of April 2023 has been publishedin the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. The paper is published as a part of the special issue ‘The evolution and space weather impact of coronal mass ejections’ organised following a workshop at Krea …

Professor Anil Srinivasan conferred with RCME Dronacharya Award

Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS, was conferred the prestigious award of RCME Dronacharya Award in October 2025.More recently Professor Anil was the keynote speaker at  ThinkEdu 2026 by The New Indian Express. Anil headlined the discussion titled  ‘AI in Arts: Why Humanity Will Survive’. Read more

A roundup of Dr Madhavilatha Maganti’s recent academic engagements in London

Dr Madhavilatha Maganti, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS, was involved in multiple academic engagements recently.  Dr Madhavilatha delivered a flash talk on 18 February 2026 at the Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth (ISEY), University of East London, presenting work from the Infant and child Development Lab on ‘Analysing caregiver-infant interactions with high …

Dr Suhail Ahmad co-authors a paper published in Current Alzheimer Research (Bentham Sciences)

A research paper co-authored by Dr Suhail Ahmad, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Psychology, SIAS has recently been published in Current Alzheimer Research (Bentham Sciences), with an impact factor of 1.9 and major indexing in Scopus, SCIE, and PubMed. The paper is titled Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s: Machine Learning Analysis Leveraging Structural MRI. Brief: This longitudinal study investigated …