Rakesh is an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Chemistry/Physics at IISERTirupati. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics with Prof. Biman Bagchi at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Prior to joining IISER Tirupati, he did postdoctoral research with Prof. Pablo Debenedetti at Princeton University (May 2014 - Sep. 2016), and with Prof. Rigoberto Hernandez at Johns Hopkins University (Oct. 2016 - Feb. 2019). His research interests include anomalousbehavior of supercooled liquids, phase transition in equilibrium and drivenout-of-equilibrium systems, method development for robust coarse-graining of soft matter systems, and diffusion-controlled phenomena in condensed media