Timeline

Beyond the Boundary: Optimal Grid Dispersion by Spread, Reverse, and Collect

ICDCN · conference

AI Agents: Life and Money

Ethereum Day · IIT Indore

Asynchronous Dispersion with Optimal Time Complexity

ICPP · conference

Optimal Luminous UCF under Asynchrony

J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. · journal

Launched Project Pankhuri, a learning and enrichment initiative for students of Classes 6-8 from tribal and rural communities.

1 August 2026

University of Ottawa, Canada

Research visit · Jul 1-30, 2026

BA: Asynchronous Dispersion with Optimal Time Complexity

SPAA · conference

CS103: Introduction to Programming

IIT Indore · Jul-Nov 2026

IMSc Chennai, India

FSTCS 2026 — talk: Introduction to Distributed Algorithms · Jun 14-21, 2026

IIT Guwahati, India

Research visit — talk: AI Agents: The Moving Frontier (Dept. of Mathematics) · Jun 5-14, 2026

Universal Dancing by Luminous Robots Under Sequential Schedulers

SIROCCO · conference

Awarded PM-ECRG by ANRF.

11 April 2026

On maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs of undirected graphs.

JCSS · journal

Best paper award for Universal Dancing paper in SIROCCO 2026.

7 April 2026

Universal pattern formation by oblivious robots under sequential schedulers

Distributed Computing · journal

AI AGENTS ON THE FRONTIER: HYPE VS REALITY

Symposium 4.0 · IIT Indore

CS637: Theory of Computation and Graph Theory

IIT Indore · Jan-Apr 2026

BITS Pilani – K K Birla Goa Campus, India

FSTTCS 2025, with pre-conference Workshop on Quantum Algorithms and Cryptography (Dec 14-15) and Information in Games and Mechanisms (Dec 16) · Dec 14-19, 2025

IISc Bengaluru, India

Workshop: Frontiers of Graph Algorithms · Dec 8-12, 2025

IIT Madras, Chennai, India

Workshop: Modern Trends in Parameterized Algorithms · Dec 3-6, 2025

BA: Optimal Dispersion under Asynchrony

DISC · conference

BA: Universal Dancing by Luminous Robots Under Sequential Schedulers

DISC · conference

Faster Leader Election via Mobile Agents and its Applications

Theor. Comput. Sci. · journal

Kathmandu, Nepal

SSS 2025 / MAC 2025 · Oct 9-13, 2025

Dispersion is (Almost) Optimal under (A)synchrony

SPAA · conference

Exploring Dangerous Graphs with Byzantine Companions

ICDCS · conference

Asynchronous Separation of Unconscious Colored Robots

Intern. J. Netw. Comput. · journal

CS103: Introduction to Programming

IIT Indore · July-Nov 2025

Joined as Assistant Professor in CSE, IIT Indore.

23 June 2025

Dispersion of Mobile Robots on Directed Anonymous Graphs.

J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. · journal

Oblivious Robots Under Sequential Schedulers: Universal Pattern Formation

SIROCCO · conference

Pattern Formation of Robot Swarms: Points, Lines and Circles

Online Workshop on Distributed Algorithms For Swarm Robots, Jadavpur University

SSS 2025 announcement is out. I am part of PC in Track C: Moving and Computing.

20 Feb 2025

Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Research visit, one week after CANDAR 2024 · Nov 30 - Dec 6, 2024

Naha, Okinawa, Japan

CANDAR/PDAA 2024 — presented "Asynchronous Separation of Unconscious Colored Robots" · Nov 26-29, 2024

Asynchronous Separation of Unconscious Colored Robots

CANDARW:PDAA · conference

BA: Optimal Uniform Circle Formation by Asynchronous Luminous Robots.

DISC · conference

Ischia, Italy

IWOCA 2024 — presented "The Minimum Algorithm Size of k-Grouping by Silent Oblivious Robots" · Jul 1-3, 2024

The Minimum Algorithm Size of k-Grouping by Silent Oblivious Robots.

IWOCA · conference

Graph Exploration by a Deterministic Memoryless Automaton with Pebbles.

Discrete Appl. Math. · journal

Time-Color Tradeoff on Uniform Circle Formation by Asynchronous Robots.

IPDPS · conference

Reached 100 citations in Google Scholar

11 Mar 2024

Maximal Independent Set via Mobile Robots.

ICDCN · conference

Deterministic Treasure Hunt and Rendezvous in Arbitrary Connected Graphs.

Inf. Process. Lett. · journal

I am part of the SIROCCO 2024 Program Committee. Deadline: December 5 2023.

11 Oct 2023

Dispersion of Mobile Robots in Spite of Faults.

SSS · conference

Distributed Algorithms for Filling MIS Vertices of an Arbitrary Graph by Myopic Luminous Robots.

Theor. Comput. Sci. · journal

Computing Functions by Teams of Deterministic Finite Automata

preprint

Filling MIS Vertices by Myopic Luminous Robots.

ICDCIT · conference

IIT Bhilai, India

Talk: Dispersion of Mobile Robots (host: Dr. Barun Gorain) · Oct 11-14, 2022

Pisa, Italy

MAC 2022 — 8th Research Meeting and School on Distributed Computing by Mobile Robots (Moving and Computing) · Sep 19-22, 2022

Paderborn, Germany

SIROCCO 2022 — presented "Dispersion of Mobile Robots on Directed Anonymous Graphs" · Jun 27-29, 2022

Dispersion of Mobile Robots on Directed Anonymous Graphs.

SIROCCO · conference

Introduction to Programming with Python

LUISS · 2022

Machine Learning (Master)

LUISS · Feb-May 2022

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Bachelor)

LUISS · Sep-Dec 2021

Area Convergence of Weaker Robots with Additional Capabilities.

Comput. J. · journal

A Reconstructive Model for Identifying the Global Spread in a Pandemic

ICDCIT · conference

Fort Formation by an Automaton.

COMSNETS · conference

Dispersion of Mobile Robots Tolerating Faults.

WDALFR · conference

Randomized Gathering of Asynchronous Mobile Robots.

Theor. Comput. Sci. · journal

ISI Kolkata, India

ICDCN 2020 — presented "Surveillance of Uneven Surface with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" · Jan 4-7, 2020

Surveillance of uneven surface with unmanned aerial vehicles.

ICDCN · conference

Collaborative Evacuation of Mobile Robots.

ICDCN · poster

Bangalore, India

ICDCN 2019 · Jan 4-7, 2019

Gathering of mobile robots with weak multiplicity detection in presence of crash-faults.

J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. · journal

Data Structures and Algorithms Lab

IIT Guwahati · Jul-Nov 2018

Varanasi, India

ICDCN 2018 — presented "Evacuating Two Robots from Two Unknown Exits on the Perimeter of a Disk with Wireless Communication" · Jan 4-7, 2018

Evacuating two robots from two unknown exits on the perimeter of a disk with wireless communication.

ICDCN · conference

Object Oriented Programming with C++

IIT Guwahati · Jan-Apr 2018

Convergence of even simpler robots without position information.

NETYS · conference

Fault-Tolerant Gathering of Mobile Robots with Weak Multiplicity Detection.

ICDCN · conference

Introduction to Programming

IIT Guwahati · Jul-Nov 2016 & 2017

ISI Kolkata, India

ANTS 2015 · Dec 15-18, 2015