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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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