Rate My Professor Bipul Bhuyan

Professor Bipul Bhuyan is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, where he specializes in high energy physics. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Delhi, with his thesis focusing on the Rare Kaon Decay experiment conducted at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) in Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York. For this work, he received the RHIC & AGS Thesis Competition Honorable Mention award in 2004, jointly awarded by Battelle Memorial Institute and Stony Brook University. His postdoctoral research included positions as Research Collaborator on the E787 and E949 experiments at BNL (2000-2003), Post-Doctoral Fellow on the BaBar experiment at SLAC and University of Victoria (2003-2007), and Visiting Scientist at KEK, Tsukuba, Japan (2003). He joined IIT Guwahati in May 2007 as Assistant Professor, advanced to Associate Professor in June 2013, and to full Professor in March 2018. Additionally, he served as Visiting Professor at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, from June to December 2008.

An experimental particle physicist, Prof. Bhuyan's research interests center on CP violation, rare decays, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and neutrino physics to probe fundamental aspects of nature. He actively participates in major international collaborations, including Belle and Belle II experiments at KEK, Japan, focusing on CP violation in b-quark systems and new physics searches; and NOvA and DUNE at Fermilab, USA, investigating neutrino oscillations and CP violation in the leptonic sector. Previously, he contributed to the BaBar experiment at SLAC. He leads the participation of Indian physicists in DUNE, represents Indian institutions on the DUNE Resources Review Board (RRB), Belle II Finance Board, and Finance Oversight Panel, and is an Advisory Board member for the SAND consortium of DUNE. Prof. Bhuyan has been appointed to the Core Committee by the Government of Assam for establishing the Proton Therapy Centre at State Cancer Institute, GMCH, Guwahati, and served as a UGC-nominated member of the Academic Council of Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi. In 2024, he was elected Fellow of the Physics Academy of the North East (PANE) for outstanding contributions to physics. With over 930 publications, his work has garnered more than 46,800 citations and an h-index of 111. He teaches a range of courses at undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D. levels, including Atomic and Molecular Physics, Electrodynamics, and Nuclear Science and Engineering.