Supratim Sengupta

The ROC group is interested in various aspects of evolutionary dynamics in social and biological systems. We use game theory, networks and theory of stochastic processes to understand the consequences of evolving individual choices on collective dynamics in scenarios of social conflict.

• PhD (Physics), Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India, 2000
• MSc (Physics), IIT, Kharagpur, 1994
• BSc (Physics), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1992

• Professor

Research Scholars

Amit Basak

Postdoctoral Fellows

1. The Effect of Environment on the Evolution and Proliferation of Protocells of Increasing Complexity, Suvam Roy and S. Sengupta; Life 12(8), 1227 (2022).
2. Network rewiring promotes cooperation in an aspirational learning model, Anuran Pal and S. Sengupta; Chaos 32, 023109 (2022).
3. Evolution towards increasing complexity through functional diversification in a protocell model of the RNA world, Suvam Roy and S. Sengupta; Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1963); (2021).
4. How strategy environment and wealth shape altruistic behaviour: Cooperation rules affecting wealth distribution in dynamic networks, Spandan Pathak, Prateek Verma, Sumit K Ram and S. Sengupta; Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287(1941); (2020).
5. Emergence of ribozyme and tRNA-like structures from mineral-rich muddy pools on prebiotic earth, Suvam Roy, Niraja V. Bapat, Julien Derr, Sudha Rajamani and S. Sengupta; J. Theor. Biol. 110446; (2020)
6. The RNA-DNA world and the emergence of DNA-encoded heritable traits, Suvam Roy and S. Sengupta; RNA Biology 21(1), 1-9 (2024).
7. Inferring to Cooperate: Evolutionary games with Bayesian inferential strategies, Arunava Patra, S. Sengupta, Ayan Paul and Sagar Chakraborty; New J. Phys. 26, 063003 (2024).
8. Evolution of cooperation in multichannel games on multiplex networks, Amit Basak and S. Sengupta; PLoS Computational Biology 20(12): e1012678 (2024).