Ayana Ghosh
Ayana Ghosh
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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Dr. Ayana Ghosh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, where she joined in January 2026. Her research lies at the intersection of condensed matter physics, materials science and physics-aware AI, integrating theory, computation, and experiment, to uncover how structure-symmetry embedded in physical laws govern functional materials.
Dr. Ayana Ghosh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, where she joined in January 2026. Her research lies at the intersection of condensed matter physics, materials science and physics-aware AI, integrating theory, computation, and experiment, to uncover how structure-symmetry embedded in physical laws govern functional materials.
Ayana's Teraqata, "Theory–Experiment Runs for Applied, Quantum, and AI Takeouts", connects fundamental physics with applications spanning energy-efficient electronics and quantum technologies of national and global importance. Inspired by terracotta, the group’s name evokes the building of complex functionality from elemental ingredients, mirroring a research philosophy rooted in first-principles reasoning, creative problem-solving, and cross-disciplinary inquiry. It also nods to the long-standing terracotta art tradition of West Bengal, India, her home state, where material, form, function emerge through centuries of craft, linking a regional heritage to a globally oriented vision of scientific discovery.
Ayana's Teraqata, "Theory–Experiment Runs for Applied, Quantum, and AI Takeouts", connects fundamental physics with applications spanning energy-efficient electronics and quantum technologies of national and global importance. Inspired by terracotta, the group’s name evokes the building of complex functionality from elemental ingredients, mirroring a research philosophy rooted in first-principles reasoning, creative problem-solving, and cross-disciplinary inquiry. It also nods to the long-standing terracotta art tradition of West Bengal, India, her home state, where material, form, function emerge through centuries of craft, linking a regional heritage to a globally oriented vision of scientific discovery.
She earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut (2020) and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Abstract Mathematics from the University of Michigan (2015). Much of her graduate training unfolded at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a visiting intern, cultivating a lasting fondness for northern New Mexico, its mountains, high desert landscapes resonating with the cultural rhythm of Santa Fe.
She earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut (2020) and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Abstract Mathematics from the University of Michigan (2015). Much of her graduate training unfolded at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a visiting intern, cultivating a lasting fondness for northern New Mexico, its mountains, high desert landscapes resonating with the cultural rhythm of Santa Fe.
Prior to IIT Madras and after finising her doctoral studies, she joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2020-22), later promoted through a competitive, merit-based process to Research Scientist (2023-25) and R&D Staff Scientist (2025-26) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s largest Office of Science laboratory. If part of her heart remained with the sunsets of northern New Mexico and the Atlantic blues of the Connecticut coast, the Appalachian foothills offered a quieter counterpoint, country roads, old towns, rail lines, setting the cadence of a landscape that settled into her daily scientific life.
Prior to IIT Madras and after finising her doctoral studies, she joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2020-22), later promoted through a competitive, merit-based process to Research Scientist (2023-25) and R&D Staff Scientist (2025-26) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s largest Office of Science laboratory. If part of her heart remained with the sunsets of northern New Mexico and the Atlantic blues of the Connecticut coast, the Appalachian foothills offered a quieter counterpoint, country roads, old towns, rail lines, setting the cadence of a landscape that settled into her daily scientific life.
Research directions, publications, group life, and opportunities appear across the website.
Research directions, publications, group life, and opportunities appear across the website.
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