| 1. Sandeep Pathak, an Indian IIT professor, was elected as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for the Rajya Sabha elections in Punjab. |
| 2. He became an Assistant Professor in Physics at IIT Delhi in 2016. |
| 3. Throughout his career, he has authored 43 research papers and assisted in 490 research works from 2011 to 2021, including around 10 published in 2015. |
| 4. Sandeep resigned from his professorship at IIT Delhi in 2020 to work as an election strategist for the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections with the AAP. |
| 5. Before his Rajya Sabha candidacy, he led campaign design for the AAP in the 2022 Punjab assembly elections using door-to-door outreach. |
| 6. On 21 March 2022, Sandeep Pathak was appointed by the AAP to oversee the Gujarat Assembly polls scheduled for December 2022. |
