Past Members

Postdoctoral Fellows

Anusree K G

Tenure: Feb 2021 - Mar 2023

Field: X-ray Polarisation studies with Daksha, X-ray Binary studies with Astrosat, Modeling Cyclotron line Distortion in High Mass X-ray Binaries.

Current position: 

Suman Bala

Tenure: Feb 2021 - Mar 2023

Field: X-ray Polarisation studies with Daksha, X-ray Binary studies with Astrosat, Modeling Cyclotron line Distortion in High Mass X-ray Binaries.

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, USRA

Akshat Singhal

Tenure: Jun 2019 - Jan 2022

Field: Pulsar studies with Daksha, Daksha electronic systems and calibration.

Current position: 

Sourav Palit

Tenure: Apr 2019 - Dec 2021

Field: Daksha mass model, background estimation, sensitivity

Current position: Faculty,
Indian Centre for Space Physics

Gayathri Raman

Tenure: Sep 2019 - March 2021

Field: X-ray Astronomy - Observations and data analysis, X-ray binary and GRB science, AstroSat, Kilonovae

Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow,
Penn State University

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Shubham Srivastava

Tenure: 2017-2019

Field: GROWTH-India commissioning, Automation, Supernova studies

Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow,
Queen’s University Belfast

Ph.D. students

Divita Saraogi

Ph.D., IIT Bombay, 2024

Guides: Varun Bhalerao

Thesis topic: Deciphering Cosmic Fireworks - Localisation and Polarisation studies of Gamma Ray Bursts 

Current position: 

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Harsh Kumar

Ph.D., IIT Bombay, 2023

Guides: Varun Bhalerao, Anupama G C 

Thesis topic: GIT

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow,
Harvard University

Javed Rana

Ph.D., IUCAA, 2012

Guides: Sukanta Bose, Varun Bhalerao

Thesis topic: Strategies for Searches of Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Signals 

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow,
Penn State University

Project students

Ashwin Goyal

Tenure: Nov 2022 - May 2024

Field: Analysis of Atmospheric High Energy Electromagnetic Flashes

Arhaan Ahmad D

Tenure: Dec 2022 - Dec 2023

Field: Hunting for GRBs using CIFT

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Josyula Venkata Aditya D

Start: Oct 2021

Field: Localization of Gamma Ray Bursts

Harsh Choudhary D

Start: Aug 2022

Field: Optimizing Kilonove Search for LIGO O4 GW events, NEO search and Followup

Meghna Dixit D

Start: Aug 2022

Field: Automation of CZTI pipeline

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Abhishek Kumar D

Start: Jan 2023

Field: Daksha Brand Identity,

Exhibition Design

Aswin Suresh

Tenure: Nov 2021 - Aug 2023

Field: Automated detection of CZTI Fast transients, Candidate vetting and data processing for GROWTH-India Telescope

Prakriti Shankar Shetty D

Start: Dec 2022

Field: Database and Query Interface for CIFT

Mehul Chanda

Tenure: Nov 2021 - Dec 2022

Field: Daksha Mass model simulations

K Adithya Krishna

Tenure: Dec 2021 - July 2022

Field: Database and Query Interface for GROWTH-India

Gariman Singh

Tenure: Oct 2021 - Apr 2022

Field: Astrosat X-ray Binary data analysis

Sujay Jadhav

Tenure: Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

Field: GROWTH-India image subtraction pipeline for real/bogus classification of supernova sources

Subham Samantaray

Tenure: Jul 2021 - Apr 2022

Field: Orbital parameters of Low mass X-ray Binaries, GRB follow up

Parth Sastry

Tenure: May 2021 - July 2022

Field: X-Ray polarisation analysis with Daksha

Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee

Tenure: Feb 2021 - Apr 2022

Field: Astronomical Transient Visibility interface (ASIMOV), High Energy Counterparts to Gravitational Wave sources

Amrutha Lakshmi Vadladi

B.Tech.(Aero) + M.Tech.(Mech), 2023

Tenure: May 2020 - Dec 2021

Field: Daksha - Thermal control and simulations. 

Ishan Jain

Tenure: Aug 2020 - July 2021

Field: Error estimation pipeline for Pulsar period searches

Simran Joharle

 Tenure: Aug 2020 - Apr 2022

Field: GROWTH-India: Telescope Characterisation

Pranav Page

Tenure: Mar 2020 - Apr 2022

Field: CZTI GRB searches

Personal Webpage

Kritti Sharma

B.Tech. (Mech), 2022

Tenure: Aug 2020 - July 2021

Field: GROWTH-India: Automation, NEA follow up, Comets follow up

Kunal Deshmukh

B.Tech. (MEMS), 2021

Tenure: Mar 2019 - April 2021

Field: GROWTH-India automation, EMGW follow up, NEA follow up, Soft X-ray studies of AGN

Current Position: PhD Student,
Texas Tech University

Aditi Marathe

B.Tech. (Mech) NITK, 2021

Tenure: April 2019 - Nov 2021

Field: CZTI Fast transients, Daksha - Structures

Current position: Collins Aerospace

Sujay Mate

B.S., M.S. (Phy) IISER Pune, 2016

Tenure: Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

Field: EMGW follow-up with CZTI, AstroSAT Mass Model

Current position: Post-Doc,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Hrishikesh Iyer

B.Tech. (EP), 2019

Tenure: Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

Field: GROWTH-India automation, sensitivity calculations, image processing pipeline

Current position: PhD Student,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.S., M.S. (Phy) IISER Pune, 2018

Tenure: Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

Field: CZTI GRB localisation using Mass Model

Current Position: PhD Student,
Texas Tech University

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Jinay Patel

B.Tech. + M.Tech. DD (Aero), 2020

Tenure: Jul 2018 - May 2019

Field: Daksha: Orbital Simulations

Current Position:  PhD Student,
The University of Texas at Arlington 

Viraj Karambelkar

B.Tech. (EP), 2019

Tenure: Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

Field: GROWTH-India automation, data processing and EMGW followup with GIT

Current Position: PhD student, Caltech

Pavan Hebbar

B.Tech. (Aero), 2019

Tenure: Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

Field: MOTIVE proposal, Automating CZTI GRB detection

Current Position: PhD Student,
University of Alberta

Smaranika Banerjee

MSc (ESE), 2019

Tenure: Nov 2017 - May 2019

Field: Daksha: estimation of rates of GRBs based on different jet models

Current Position: PhD Student,
Tohoku University

Harishankkar GK

Start: Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

Field: Daksha electronics design

Param Rekhi

MSc (Phy), 2020

Tenure: Jul 2020 - Dec 2021

Field: X-ray Binary data analysis with Astrosat

Current Position: PhD Student,
Weizmann Institute, Israel

Maitreya Khandagale

Tenure: Mar 2019 - May 2021

Field: GROWTH-India Automation and data processing, EMGW follow up, Supernovae follow up

Ritesh Bachhar

MSc (Phy), 2020

Tenure: Aug 2019 - Sep 2020

Field: AstroSat X-ray binary data analysis

Vedant Shenoy

B.Tech. (EP), 2021

Tenure: Aug 2019 - Mar 2021

Field: CZTI GRB and EMGW searches, GROWTH-India.

Rahul Srinivasan

B.E., M.Sc. (Phy) BITS, 2018

Tenure: Aug 2019 - Sep 2021

Field: Daksha rate estimation, Orbit simulator

Current Position:  PhD Student,
Université Côte d'Azur 

Srividhya S

B.Tech. (Mech) SNSCT, 2020

Tenure: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

Field: Daksha Structures

Current Position: PhD Student, 
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Joy Sanghvi

B.Tech. (EP), 2021

Tenure: Aug 2020 - May 2021

Field: PSF photometry of supernova SN2018hna

Current Position: MSc (Phy), LMU Munich

Drishika Nadella

B.Tech. (Mech) NITK, 2022

Tenure: Aug 2020 - Jan 2021

Field: GRB follow-up with CZTI using CIFT

Soumya Gupta

B.Sc., M.Sc. (Phy)
University of Delhi, 2019

Tenure: Mar 2021 - Oct 2021

Field: CZTI GRB follow-up and polarization analysis,  X-ray binary data analysis

Current Position:  PhD Student,
BARC, Mumbai

Adeem Jassani

B.Tech. (EP), 2021

Tenure: Feb 2019 - Jul 2019

Field: GROWTH-India: Data Processing and Management

Current Position: Masters Of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) program at the University of Toronto

Vashishtha Kochar

Tenure: Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

Field: GROWTH-India data processing and management

Abhinav Jain

DD. (Mech), 2021

Tenure: Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

Field: GROWTH-India interface

Current Position: Software Developer at Navi

Shiva Teja

Tenure: Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

Field: AstroSat LAXPC GRB analysis

Atharva Patil

B.Tech. (Aero), 2019

Tenure: Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

Field: GROWTH-India automation and photometry

Current position: PhD Student,
NCU Taiwan

Akash Anumarlapudi

B.Tech. (Aero), 2019

Tenure: Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

Field: CZTI studies on EMGW, X-ray follow up of transients 

Current Position: PhD Student,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Tanazza Khanam

MSc (Phys), 2018

Tenure: Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

Field: AstroSat Data Analysis, GRB search and localization, Continuous GW sources using SSM

Current Position: PhD Student,
Texas Tech University

Yashvi Sharma

B.Tech. (EP), 2019

Tenure: Aug 2017 - Apr 2019

Field: AstroSat CZTI GRB search

Current Position: PhD student, Caltech