Sitabhra Sinha

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Sitabhra Sinha is a professor of theoretical physics and the dean of the Computational Biology Graduate Program at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in India. He did his Ph.D. at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and postdoctoral research at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, joining the faculty of IMSc in 2002. His research falls broadly under complex systems, nonlinear dynamics, and statistical physics, with applications to systems biology, economic and social sciences, and computational linguistics.


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