Bipul Bhuyan is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Prior to joining IIT Guwahati, Prof. Bhuyan worked on the BaBar experiment at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. His Ph.D. thesis was on the Rare Kaon Decay experiment at the AGS in Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York. For his Ph.D. thesis work, Prof. Bhuyan received the "RHIC & AGS Thesis Competition Honorable Mention" award in 2004. The award was jointly given by Battelle Memorial Institute and Stony Brook University.
As an experimental particle physicist, Prof. Bhuyan is working with several International Collaborations to understand the Nature at the most fundamental level. In particular, he is interested in understanding the matter anti-matter asymmetry in the Universe, which physicists believe to be due to a phenomenon called CP violation and the fundamental nature of the neutrino particles. Currently, he is working on the Belle and Belle II experiments at KEK in Japan, the NOvA and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at Fermi Lab, USA.
Prof. Bhuyan is leading the participation of the Indian physicists in the DUNE experiment and represents the Indian institutions in the DUNE Resources Review Board (RRB). As a member of the Belle II collaboration, Prof. Bhuyan also represents the Indian institutions in the Belle II Finance Board and serves as a member of the Finance Oversight Panel. Prof. Bhuyan is a Advisory Board member for the SAND consortium of the DUNE experiment. Prof. Bhuyan is being appointed as a member of the Core Committee by the Govt. of Assam to oversee and coordinate the establishment of the Proton Therapy Centre at State Cancer Institute, GMCH, Guwahati. Earlier, Prof. Bhuyan served as a UGC nominated member of the Academic Council of Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi.
Prof. Bhuyan made academic visits to BNL, USA; SLAC, USA; University of Victoria, Canada; McGill University, Canada; CERN, Switzerland; University of Perth, Australia; KEK, Japan; Fermi Lab, USA; University of Virginia, USA; Joint Institute of Nuclear Resarch (JINR), Russia in the past and remains a regular visitor to Fermi Lab and KEK.
In 2024, Prof. Bhuyan was elected as a Fellow of the Physics Academy of the North East (PANE) for his outstanding contribution to Physics.
