He obtained his undergraduate and master’s education at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, from 2005-2010 before moving to the Mathematics Department, University of Washington, Seattle, for his Ph.D. in mathematics (2010-2013) under the supervision of Prof. Krzysztof Burdzy. Subsequently, he was a Research Fellow in the Statistics Department, University of Warwick, UK, from November 2013- June 2016, working with Prof. Wilfrid Kendall, before moving to UNC. Sayan works in probability theory. Recently his focus has been on interactions between probability (like couplings of diffusions) and the geometry of the underlying space. He also works in large deviations, queueing systems, interacting particle systems, random walks in random environments and random matrices.