• B.Tech. (2005) Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay)
• Ph.D. (2013) Physics, Rutgers University

Research Interests:

• I am interested in understanding the interplay of host immune response and intra-host viral evolution with a view to develop novel vaccines. My current research focuses on HIV. I am currently working on understanding i) the properties of cellular and antibody immune responses that correlate with HIV control, and ii) the constraints on artificial vaccine designs due to co-evolution and structural stability.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Wagh, K., Bhatia, A., Greenbaum, B., Bhanot, G. Bird to Human Transmission Biases and Vaccine Escape Mutants in H5N1 Infections, (under review) (2014).
2. Wagh, K. et al Lactase persistence and lipid pathway selection in the Maasai, PLoS One. 7 (9), e44751 (2012).
3. Owusu, O., Wagh, K., Yuzbashyan, E. The link between integrability, level crossings and exact solution in quantum models, J Phys A 42 (3), 035206 (2009).
4. Choudhry, D., Godbole, R.M., Singh, R.K., Wagh, K. Top production at the Tevatron/LHC and nonstandard, strongly interacting spin one particles, Phys Lett B 657 (1), 69-76 (2007).
5. Dhar, A., Wagh, K. Equilibration problem for the generalized Langevin equation, Europhys Lett 79 (6), 60003 (2007).