REDD research Lab

REDD stands for Readout Electronics and Detector Development.   The focus of the lab is on the Experimental High Energy Physics and its application to the society. 


Principal Investigator

Dr. Vishal Bhardwaj (Ph. D.)

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Sciences,

4F4, Academic Block 1, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali,

Sector 81, Knowledge City, SAS Nagar (Mohali),

Punjab, 140306 (India).

Focus of REDD Lab

The true benefit to society lies not in achieving great feats, but in addressing the small yet crucial issues often overlooked by even the greatest minds 


We are engaged in two major experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) collaborations:

Our focus is on tackling problems that are missed by most, applying ideas and technologies—both software and hardware-based—from the High Energy Physics (HEP) community for the betterment of society.

Our work includes:

Beyond High Energy Physics, we leverage the tools and expertise we develop—such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)—to contribute to diverse fields such as forensic science and medical imaging.

Current Lab members

 Dr. Soureek Mitra 

Post-doctoral researcher


Physics Interests: High Energy Physics, Higgs, SUSY, top physics

Focus: Physics Analysis, AI based optimizations and algorithms, Detector development and characteristics study (CMS experiment

Other Interests: Travel,  Computing, Electronics


 Sourabh Chutia

Ph.D. researcher


Physics Interests: High Energy Physics, Gravitation

Focus: Physics Analysis, Detector development and characteristics study (Belle and Belle II collaboration) 

Other Interests: Travel, Food, Computing


Ph.D. researcher


Physics Interests: Experimental High Energy Physics in charm sector, study the physics in high intensity frontier region, and study of rare decay.

Focus: Currently focused on finding possibility for dark matter and rare decay study of Ds meson using Belle and Belle II experiment data.

Other Interests: Reading, Running Marathons and tinkering with electronics.

Ph.D. researcher


Physics Interests: Experimental High Energy Physics, Charm Physics

Focus: Currently working on the precise measurements of branching fractions of the strange charmed mesons with the Belle II experiment.  

Other Interests: Travel, Badminton


Previous Lab members

Thesis title: Search for B → Y(4260) K decay with belle detector at KEK B-factory 

Ph.D. Completion:  August, 2021 (Panjab University)

Currently at: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA 

Physics interests: High energy physics: Flavor physics, Hadron spectroscopy, Astrophysics

Focus: Currently working on rare charm decays, dE/dx calibration.

Other interests: Travel, Yoga, programming

Thesis title: Study of rare decays & exotic states in quarkonium at Belle 

Ph.D. Completion:  October, 2022 (IISER Mohali)

Currently at: University of Louisville, USA stationed at KEK, Japan 

Physics interests: Searches of new physics phenomena   in the flavor sector. Software and networking part of  different HEP detectors. 

Focus: Tau physics, LFV decays and detector physics

Other interests: Running, cycling, table tennis, cooking, etc 


Ex-Post-doctoral researcher


Physics Interests: Experimental High Energy Physics: B and Charm Physics. 

Focus: "Basic building blocks of matter", new sources of CP violation beyond the SM. Rare B-meson decays, study of rare and hadronic B to charm decay modes .

Other Interests: Reading, Music, Machine learning

Currently at: Research  staff at Haryana Forensic Department.