Kushal Shah

Kushal Shah
GN Ramachandran Fellow
School of Computational and Integrative Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi - 110067, India.

Gmail-ID: atmabodha
('atmabodha' is a sanskrit word meaning Self-Knowledge)

Education:
2005: B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras
2010: PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras
(PhD advisor: Prof. Harishankar Ramachandran)

Work Experience:
2012- : GN Ramachandran Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2010-11: Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2009-10: Post-doctoral fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science

Social initiatives:

Sandeepani Vidyapeeth : A school in Balasore (Odisha)
Online Guide for students at all levels.

Broad Areas of Interest:

DNA sequence and protein structure analysis
Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos
Electromagnetic fields and Plasma

Publications:

Plasma Physics
- Analytic, nonlinearly exact solutions of an rf confined plasma
  K. Shah and H. S. Ramachandran
  Physics of Plasmas 15, 062303 (2008)
- Space charge effects in rf traps: Ponderomotive concept and stroboscopic analysis
  K. Shah and H. S. Ramachandran
  Physics of Plasmas 16, 062307 (2009)
- Asymptotic solution of Fokker-Planck equation for plasma in Paul traps
  K. Shah
  Physics of Plasmas 17,054501 (2010)
- Plasma response to nonlinear time-periodic electric fields in one dimension
  K. Shah
  Phys. Plasmas 17, 112301 (2010)
Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos
- Exponential energy growth in a Fermi accelerator
  K. Shah, D. Turaev and V. Rom-Kedar
  Physical Review E 81, 056205 (2010)
- Robust exponential acceleration in time-dependent billiards
  V. Gelfreich, V. Rom-Kedar, K. Shah and D. Turaev
  Physical Review Letters 106, 074101 (2011)
- Energy growth rate in smoothly oscillating billiards
  K. Shah
  Physical Review E 83, 046215 (2011)
Bioinformatics and Biophysics
- Nucleotide correlation based measure for identifying origin of replication in genomic sequences
  K. Shah and A. Krishnamachari, BioSystems 107,52 (2012)
- On the origin of three base periodicity in genomes
  K. Shah and A. Krishnamachari, BioSystems 107, 142 (2012)
Pre-prints
- Plasmodium falciparum has rare correlation properties
  K. Shah
- Statistical analysis of protein molecules
  K. Shah
- Dynamics of proteins and DNA in a Paul trap
  K. Shah