Narayan is a fourth-year PhD student working with Prof. Dmitri Krioukov in the DK-Lab. He is broadly interested in the statistical mechanics of complex networks, particularly in developing the theory of sparse random (hyper)graph models and applying it to understand epidemic spreading and (graph) machine learning. Before joining NetSI, he earned a BS-MS dual degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata.