Principal Investigator
Partha Sharathi Dutta
Associate Professor
Education
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Oldenburg, Germany (Feb. 2011 - Jan. 2013)
Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK (Jun. - Oct. 2010)
Guest Researcher, University of Stuttgart, Germany (Oct. - Nov. 2009)
PhD: IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
M.Sc: University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India
Work experience
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (Apr. 2018 - Present)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (Feb. 2013 - Mar. 2018)
Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, NJ, USA (May - Jul. 2017)
Email-id: parthasharathi@iitrpr.ac.in
Current PhD Students
Subhendu Bhandary
B.Sc Mathematics, Ramakrishna Mission Residential college
M.Sc Mathematics, IIT Guwahati
Research Interest: My main research interest is to study network resilience under the face of intrinsic and environmental perturbations. Currently I am working on the interplay between local dynamical complexity and structural complexity on the emergent spatiotemporal dynamics. I am also interested to study the impact of intrinsic perturbations on ecological networks.
Email-id: 2017maz0008@iitrpr.ac.in
Arzoo Narang
B.Sc Mathematics and Computing, Panjab University
M.Sc Mathematics, Panjab University
Research Interest: I am mainly interested in exploring different areas of ecology which explicitly considers the evolution of species and interactions between them by making certain mathematical assumptions. My work includes studying mathematical models in order to better understand the effects of environmental variability on population dynamics.
Email-id: 2018maz0002@iitrpr.ac.in
Smita Deb
B.Sc Mathematics, St Xavier’s college Kolkata
M.Sc Mathematics, IIEST Shibpur
Research Interest: I am interested in understanding critical transitions in complex spatiotemporal systems. Currently, I am working on a project which uses machine learning techniques to forewarn critical transitions in complex systems under the influence of diverse types of noise.
Email-id: smita.19maz0004@iitrpr.ac.in
Ravi Kumar K
B.Sc Mathematics, The American College, Madurai
M.Sc Mathematics, Pondicherry University
Research Interest: A lot has already been known regarding the tipping points of autonomous dynamical systems. However, not much is known about tipping points in nonautonomous systems. When the evolution law of a dynamical system explicitly depends on time, the system is called nonautonomous. New concepts are needed to understand tipping points in nonautonomous systems. My work broadly focuses on understanding tipping points in nonautonomous systems.
Email-id: ravi.21maz0002@iitrpr.ac.in
Lab Alumni
Taranjot Kaur
M.Sc Mathematics, Delhi University
PhD, IIT Ropar
PhD degree awarded: 2022
Thesis title: Ecosystem Stability Under Environmental Change
After Dutta Lab: Valdovinos Lab, Laboratory of Ecological Networks, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, USA.
Sukanta Sarkar
M.Sc Mathematics, IIT Madras
PhD, IIT Ropar
PhD degree awarded: 2021
Thesis title: Tipping Points in Complex Systems: From Prediction to Mitigation
After Dutta Lab: The Drake Lab, Laboratory of Population Dynamics, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
Ramesh Arumugam
M.Sc Mathematics, IIT Madras
PhD, IIT Ropar
PhD degree awarded: 2018
Thesis title: Synchrony and Stability: Towards Understanding Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Ecosystems
After Dutta Lab: The Guichard Lab, Theoretical and Marine Ecology, Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Yogita Sharma
M.Sc Mathematics, Panjab University
PhD, IIT Ropar
PhD degree awarded: 2017
Thesis title: Regime Shifts in Bistable Biological Systems
After Dutta Lab: The Marshall Lab, Divisions of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
( Joint supervision with Dr. A. K. Gupta)
Anubhav Gupta
BS-MS, IISER Kolkata
MS degree awarded: 2017
MS Thesis title: Increased Persistence via Asynchrony in Oscillating Ecological Populations with Long-range Interaction
After Dutta Lab: Petchey Lab, Predictive Ecology Group, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
(Anubhav was a visiting BS-MS student from IISER Kolkata and I have supervised his final year Master’s Thesis. )
Dr. Krishnendu Pal
Postdoc: Feb - Nov 2021
Ph.D.: S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Research Interest: Krishnendu worked on critical transitions in spatiotemporal ecological systems in the presence of correlated stochastic fluctuations.
After Dutta Lab: Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, ISI Kolkata