Ananya R. Deshmukh
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Physics postgraduate with 4 years of classroom and one-to-one teaching across JEE Advanced, NEET and CBSE Class XI–XII, combined with hands-on condensed-matter research. Known for converting abstract concepts into solvable problem patterns: my 2024 JEE batch improved its average physics percentile from 71 to 89. Comfortable teaching offline, online and in hybrid formats, and equally at home in a low-temperature transport lab.
Education
Teaching Experience
- Raised the batch average physics percentile from 71 to 89 across the 2024 JEE Main cohort.
- Mentored 3 students into the top 1000 AIR in JEE Advanced 2024 and 11 into government medical colleges.
- Built a 320-problem graded question bank on Mechanics and Electrodynamics now used across all four branches.
- Ran weekly doubt-clearing clinics and error-log reviews that cut repeated conceptual mistakes by half.
- Designed individual 12-week plans for 24 students; 21 improved by at least two grade bands.
- Used tablet-based live derivations and shared annotated notes after every session.
- Supervised weekly lab sessions and graded reports for two undergraduate cohorts.
- Rewrote the oscilloscope and diode-characteristics lab manuals with clearer error-analysis guidance.
Research Experience
- Fabricated and characterised 18 few-layer WTe2 Hall-bar devices with 92% yield.
- Automated the data-acquisition pipeline in Python, cutting per-sample analysis time from 3 hours to 20 minutes.
- Co-authored one peer-reviewed article and one conference poster from the dataset.
Publications & Presentations
- A. R. Deshmukh, M. Iyer, S. Kulkarni. Thickness-dependent magnetoresistance in exfoliated WTe2 Hall bars, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2022) · Journal article · doi.org/10.0000/demo.jpcm.2022
- A. R. Deshmukh, M. Iyer. A low-cost automated transport measurement stack for teaching labs, National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, Mumbai (2022) · Poster
Skills
Achievements & Competitive Exams
- CSIR-NET JRF (Physical Sciences) — All India Rank 84 (2021)
- GATE Physics — Score 712, AIR 341 (2021)
- University Merit Scholarship — Top 2% of the MSc cohort (2020)
- Best Poster Award — National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics (2022)
Certifications & Workshops
- Effective Online Teaching — IIT Bombay (IITBombayX) (2023)
- Computational Physics with Python — NPTEL, Elite + Silver (2021)
- SERB School on 2D Materials — Two-week residential school, IISc Bangalore (2022)
Outreach & Volunteering
- Volunteer physics mentor for 30+ students from low-income schools through the Vidya Setu programme.
- Run a free monthly 'Physics of Everyday Things' session for Class IX–X students.
