School of Natural Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar is Assistant Professor (Selection Grade) at UPES, Dehradun. Having completed his doctorate from Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, he has been an institutional postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Indian Institute of Science – Bangalore (funded by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India) and a postdoctoral associate of Nobel Laureate (Physics, 1973) Prof. Brian Josephson at the University of Cambridge. He has been a Trinity Barlow Scholar (2015-2018), Nehru Scholar (2014-2018), INSPIRE Scholar (2011-2014) and TIFR NIUS Fellow (2012-2014). He was a lead speaker in the domain of quantum error correction at the National Quantum Mission (NQM) strategic consultation meeting in July 2023. His area of research expertise is in entanglement, quantum information and the foundations of quantum physics. He has had training in Artificial Intelligence from the MIT Schwarzmann School of Computing, with one of his recent research focus-areas being Quantum Machine Learning (QML). Dr. Guha Majumdar has previously worked with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India), UNESCO and G20 on education and science policy. He has also been a science communicator, with his documentary on quantum mechanics aired on Doordarshan, under the Science India initiative.

Balu is a technology leader, entrepreneur, and enabler in DeepTech startups, with extensive experience in the USA and Indian ecosystems. He collaborates with accelerators like UC Berkeley Skydeck, Carnegie Mellon University’s Schwartz Center, NASSCOM, and IIT-B eCell, providing technical and strategic guidance to startups in the USA, EU, Japan, and India. As an ecosystem adviser for AI entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley and Director of International Collaborations at RV University, Bangalore, Balu nurtures student entrepreneurs.

With over a decade of expertise, Balu specializes in DeepTech, product scalability, development, go-to-market strategies, and customer acquisition. He supports UC Berkeley startups with engineering, staffing, and strategic initiatives and serves as a jury member at prestigious startup events. As co-founder of HUM Consulting Services (HUMCS), Balu offers fractional CxO services in software architecture, design, and scalability.

He also fosters industry-academia partnerships, driving collaborations between startups and universities. Balu co-founded Vigyanlabs, a DeepTech company focused on power optimization and previously worked in Wireless Semiconductors with Qualcomm and Intel. He holds degrees in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Mysore. Balu is also a Carnatic music artist, yoga teacher, and STEAM education advocate.