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Name	Agniva Roychowdhury
Post	Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email	agniva [at] ncra.tifr.res.in
Office Phone	02025719269 Extn: 9269
Office Room	F218B
Website	Personal Webpage
HQ	Pune
Address	National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Savitribai Phule Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007 Maharashtra, INDIA

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Main Research Areas: Astrophysical Jets, Information Theory, Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Plasma Astrophysics

Biography:
Agniva obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from Presidency University, Kolkata, in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and his PhD in Physics (specialization : Astrophysics) from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA, in 2023. He was then a post-doctoral fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore between 2023 and 2024, working on gamma ray bursts and cosmological reionization. He joined the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics as an open postdoctoral fellow in July 2025.

Research Description:
Different fields of science tend to operate in separated spheres, creating gaps in scientific progress. To this end, I use and develop unifying information-theoretic and computational frameworks to quantify fundamental limits of signal extraction in complex systems across multiple domains spanning astrophysical black holes to evolutionary biology and biomedical imaging. My broader domain of research interests spans radio interferometry, plasma astrophysics and systems operating far from thermodynamic equilibrium.