• location: 308 SERC
• phone: +91-80-2360-0654-extn-308 (from oustide) or 2737-extn-308 (campus)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Five stage Milstein methods for SDEs
  Samar B Singh and S. Raha
  Int'l J. Computer Mathematics,http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207160.2012.657629,2012.
• Physically Consistent Simulation of Mesoscale Chemical Kinetics: the Non-Negative FIS-alpha Method
  Saswati Dana and Soumyendu Raha
  Journal of Computational Physics, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2011.07.032, vol. 230, pp. 8813-8834, 2011.
• Growing pseudo-eigenmodes and positive logarithmic norms in rotating shear flow
  Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, Ranchu Mathew, Soumyendu Raha
  New Journal of Physics , vol. 13, 023029, Feb 2011.
• Activator induced dynamic disorder and molecular memory in human two-pore domain hTREK1 K+ channel
  Tapan K. Nayak, Saswati Dana, Soumyendu Raha, Sujit K. Sikdar
  Journal of Chemical Biology,Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 69-84, DOI: 10.1007/s12154-010-0053-3, Feb 2011.
• Computation of Restoration of Ligand Response in the Random Kinetics of a Prostate Cancer Cell Signaling Pathway
  Saswati Dana, Takashi Nakakuki, Mariko Hatakeyama, Shuhei Kimura and Soumyendu Raha
  Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 101, pp.1-22, doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.04.001, 2011.
• On Estimation of Transient Stochastic Stability of Linear Systems
  Sk. Safique Ahmad and S. Raha
  Stochastics and Dynamics, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 385-405, 2010. DOI: 10.1142/S0219493710003017.
• The Fully Implicit Stochastic-alpha Method for Stiff Stochastic Differential Equations
  Sk. Safique Ahmad, Nigam C Parida and S. Raha
  Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 228, pp. 8263--8282, 2009. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.08.002
• The alpha Method for Solving Differential-Algebraic Inequality Systems
  Joey Peter, Nigam C. Parida and S. Raha
  International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling (IJNAM), Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 240-260, 2010
• Regularized Numerical Integration of Multibody Dynamics with the Generalized alpha Method
  Nigam C Parida and S. Raha
  Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 215 pp. 1224--1243, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.amc.2009.06.063
• The alpha-Method Direct Transcription in Path Constrained Dynamic Optimization,
  Nigam Chandra Parida and Soumyendu Raha,
  SIAM J. Sci. Computing, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp. 2386--2417, 2009 permalink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/070682289
• Parallel implementation of AutoDock,
  P. Khodade, R. Prabhu, N. Chandra, S. Raha and R. Govindarajan,
  J. Appl. Cryst. 40, pp. 598-599, 2007.
• A Combination of Docking, QM/MM Methods, and MD Simulation for Binding Affinity Estimation of Metalloprotein Ligands
  Akash Khandelwal, Viera Lukacova, Dogan Comez, Daniel M. Kroll, Soumyendu Raha, and Stefan Balaz
  J. Med. Chem., 48 (17), 5437 -5447, 2005. 10.1021/jm049050v S0022-2623(04)09050-8
• Viera Lukacova, Yufen Zhang, Martin Mackov, Peter Baricic, Soumyendu Raha, Jorge A. Calvo, and Stefan Balaz
  Similarity of Binding Sites of Human Matrix Metalloproteinases
  J. Biol. Chem., Apr 2004; 279: 14194 - 14200; 10.1074/jbc.M313474200.
• S. Raha and L.R. Petzold,
  Constraint Partitioning for Stability in Path-Constrained Dynamic Optimization Problems
  SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 22(6) pp. 2051-2074, 2001
• S. Raha and L.R. Petzold,
  Constraint Partitioning for Structure in Path-Constrained Dynamic Optimization Problems
  Applied Numerical Math., vol. 39, pp 105-126, 2001
• Jeng Yen, Linda Petzold, Soumyendu Raha
  A Time Integration Algorithm for Flexible Mechanism Dynamics : The DAE-alpha Method
  J. Comput. Methods in App. Mech. Engr. (CMAME), 158 (1998), pp 341-355

• Computational Study of Stochastic Differential-Algebraic and stiff Stochastic Differential Equations.
• Math. Software for Control and Direct Optimization of High Index Differential-Algebraic Equations.
• Application to
  • VLSI and MEMS CAD Physical Design and Simulation Problems
  • Trajectory Optimization / Multibody Dynamics
  • Biochemical Pathway Systems
  • Protein Plasticity
• Mathematical Libraries and Middleware: Performance, Tuning and Algorithm-Level Fault Tolerance.

EDUCATION

• PhD, Scientific Computation, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA. (2000).
• MS, Computer Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA. (1997).
• M Tech, Civil Structural Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, India. (1993).
• B C E (Honours),Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. (1991).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• OCCAM Visiting Fellow, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (Sept-Nov 2010)
• Visitor, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia (July 2009 and September 2011)
• Assistant Professor, SERC, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2003-2009)
• Visiting Researcher, CoE in Computational Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan (May 2005)
• Assistant Professor,Computer Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.(2002-2003)
• Advisory Engineer, Electronic Design Automation, IBM Corporation, Fishkill, NY, USA.(2000-2002)
• Staff Research Associate and Lecturer,Computational Science and Engg, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA.(1998-2000)
• Intern, Cray Research/SGI, Eagan, MN, USA.(1997 and 1998 Summers)
• Research Assistant,Army High Performance Computing Research Center, University of Minnesota, USA. (1995-1997)

• Computational Methods for Control of Multiscale Dynamics funded by Naval Research Board (2011-2014)
• Mobile Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks: Control and Optimization funded by International Co-operation Division, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (collaborator: Prof Adil I Erzin of Russian Academy of Sciences) (2010-2012)
• Global Routing in sub-65 nm VLSI designs for Statistical Timimg Closure funded by International Co-operation Division, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (collaborator: Prof Adil I Erzin of Russian Academy of Sciences) (2008-2010)
• Control of mobile sensors for robust sensing and communication funded by International Co-operation Division, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (collaborator: Prof Adil I Erzin of Russian Academy of Sciences) (2008-2010)
• Computational Study of Stochastic Differential-Algebraic Equations funded by Naval Research Board (2006-2009)
• Computational Study of Path Constraints for Guidance Planning funded by Indian Space Research Organization-IISc Space Technology Cell. (2007-2009)
• Trajectory Optimization with High Index DAEs funded by Indian Space Research Organization-IISc Space Technology Cell. (2004-2007).

• Dr. Nachiketa Mishra [supported by Dr D S Kothari Fellowship of the University Grants Commission] (joined July 2011)
• Raghuram Srinivasan, PhD[ABD] (joined August, 2010)
• Dr. Rajendra K Ray (April - December 2009) [At present Assistant Professor, IIT Mandi]
• Dr. Sk Safique Ahmad (January 2008 - January 2009) [At present Assistant Professor, IIT Indore]

• Nigam Chandra Parida (PhD student, joined 2010)
• Satadal Ghosh (PhD student, joined 2009)
• Samar Bahadur Singh (PhD student, joined 2008)
• Radhamanjari Samanta (PhD student, joined 2008)
• Santosh Doraisamy (PhD student, joined 2006)
• Saswati Dana (PhD student 2006-2011. Graduated 2011, Thesis: Uncertainty in Intra-Cellular Biochemical Reactions)[Samsung AIT, Bangalore]
• Deepak Rout (MSc Engineering/ Research) graduated 2006

• Ipsita Biswas Mahapatra (Dec 2009 - April 2010)
• Samrat Chatterjee (Jan 2007-Dec 2009)
• Ramakrishna Ghosh (2009)
• Nigam Chandra Parida (Oct 2005-Feb 2009)

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