Current Stars

Ph.D. students

Divita Saraogi

Start: Jan 2018

Field: GRB studies, Daksha source search and localisation, detector calibrations

Personal Webpage

Start: Jan 2020

Field: LIGO - Low Latency Studies,
Daksha Structural & Thermal Simulations, EMGW & High-Energy transients,
CZTI noise characterization

Personal Webpage

Vishwajeet Swain

Start: Jul 2021

Field: Study of Compact Binary Merger: Kilonova and GRBs

Utkarsh Pathak

Start: Jan 2022

Field: X-ray binaries and GRB Polarisation

Personal Webpage

Anuraag Arya 

Start: Jul 2022

Field: High-energy instrumentation

Aditya Pavan Saikia 

Start: Jan 2024

Field: High-energy instrumentation

Project Research Assistants

Anirudh Salgundi

Start: Jan 2023

Field: Type-1 thermonuclear X-ray bursts using AstroSat,
Transient follow-up & Electromagnetic counterparts to GW events with GROWTH-India Telescope

Harmanjeet Singh Bilkhu

Start: Aug 2023

Field: Compton Imaging in hard X-rays, Characterization of CZT Detectors,

Daksha electronics

Project students

Aswin Suresh

B.Tech. (EP)

Start: Nov 2021

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

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Advait Mehla

B.Tech. (EP)

Start: Nov 2021

Field: Daksha Mass model simulations, GRB Polarimetry with Daksha

Personal Webpage

Josyula Venkata Aditya D

B.Tech. (CSE)

Start: Oct 2021

Field: Localization of Gamma Ray Bursts

Harsh Choudhary D

M.Sc. (EP)

Start: Aug 2022

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

Meghna Dixit D

B.Tech. (Aero)

Start: Aug 2022

Field: Automation of CZTI pipeline

Personal Webpage

Ashwin Goyal

B.Tech. (CSE)

Start: Nov 2022

Field: Analysis of Atmospheric High Energy Electromagnetic Flashes

Dhananjay Raman

B.Tech. (CSE)

Start: Dec 2022

Field: Electromagnetic counterparts to LIGO O4

Personal Webpage

Arhaan Ahmad D

B.Tech. (CSE)

Start: Dec 2022

Field: Hunting for GRBs using CIFT

Personal Webpage

Prakriti Shankar Shetty D

B.Tech. (Chem)

Start: Dec 2022

Field: Database and Query Interface for CIFT

Tamojeet Roychowdhury

B.Tech. (Elec)

Start: Dec 2022

Field: Electromagnetic counterparts to GW events of LIGO O4

Abhishek Kumar D

B.Des. (IDC)

Start: Jan 2023

Field: Daksha Brand Identity,

Exhibition Design