
Undergraduate Students
Neha Hegde
Hometown: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Education: High School (2023)
Neha is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and completed her schooling at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan SSC in the year 2023. She joined Dr. Debdas Ray’s research group as an undergraduate in 2024. She is passionate about music, art, and science.

Anannya Dobrial
Hometown:Jhonpur, Bank colony, Kotdwara, Uttarakhand
Education: High School (2021)
Anannaya is from Kotdwara, Uttarakhand, and has completed her High school degree in 2021 from G.D. Goenka Public School, India. She joined Ray’s research group as an Undergraduate in 2023. She likes reading literature, traveling, and sketching. She also writes stories.

Athish Pranav K V
Hometown: Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Education: High School (2021)
Athish has been working on computational simulations of proteins, enzymes, and the excited-state dynamics of the fluorescent protein GFP. His hobbies include listening to music, sipping coffee, and diving into intriguing concepts in chemistry and biology. Deeply curious and always eager to learn, Athish enjoys connecting the dots between theory and experiment. He finds joy in the little details of science and believes that curiosity, paired with creativity, drives meaningful discovery.
