You may find a part of my CV – Education, Awards, services and conferences below. Rest are made available here. A comprehensive profile may also be found on Linkedin. You may find my thesis ‘‘Heating and dynamics of the solat atmosphere’’ here.
Employment
| Position | Location | Time |
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| Research Associate | Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory/Bay Area Environmental Research Institute | April 2023 - Current |
Education
| Position | Location | Time |
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| PhD in Astrophysics (Senior Research Fellow), under Prof. Durgesh Tripathi, IUCAA | Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune | August 2018-March 2023 |
| Dual degree: B.Tech (Engineering design) + M.Tech (Biomedical design), Minor in Physics | Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, Chennai, India | 2013-2018 |
Experience
- Frontier Development lab [Faculty: June 2023 – Sept 2023]: Lead the FDL-X team of ‘Multiscale Geoeffectiveness’, culminating in the development of an end-to-end Sun to the solar wind to global geomagnetism forecaster.
Mentoring and Supervision
- Ph. D thesis:
- Mr. Biswanath Malaker [2021 - …]: Multi-wavelength Observations of Polar Plumes and Jets, Supervisor: Prof. Durgesh Tripathi.
- Mr. Linn Abraham [2023 - …]: Solar flare forecasting using interpretable deep learning, through ISRO-RESPOND project, Supervisor: Prof. Durgesh Tripathi.
- Master’s thesis:
- Ms. Kajal Kesare [2021 - 2022]: Quantifying information transfer due to solar wind from the Sun to 1 AU, Supervisor: Prof. Durgesh Tripathi.
- Project students:
- Mr. Deepak Kathait [2023 - …]: Understanding the physics of solar flares through ISRO-RESPOND.
- Mr. Pranava Seth [2023 - …]: An Artificial Intelligence based chromospheric feature extractor and classifier for SUIT.
- Mr. Archit Dubey [May 2023 - Aug 2023]: Effect of mesh size on diffraction in Multislit Solar Explorer, Supervisor: Dr. Bart de Pontieu / Dr. Gary Kushner
Awards and scholarships
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K.D Abhyankar best thesis presentation: At the Astronomical Society of India meeting - 2023 for thesis titled ``Heating and dynamics of the solar atmosphere’’.
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Indo-French Center for the Promotion of Advanced Research grant (2023-2026): Co-I of the project ‘‘Investigating the origin of switchbacks in the solar corona via interchange reconnection - A statistical and multi-instruments approach including machine learning”, with P.I Prof. Durgesh Tripathi and Dr. Clara Froment.
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IAU Grant: Awarded the International Astronomical Union grant of 2000 Euros for giving two contributed talks at the IAU General Assembly 2022 from August 2- 12 in Busan, South Korea.
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Outstading Student Presentation Award: Awarded the OSPA at the AGU: Fall meeting in 2021 for talk titled “Solar wind signatures in the chromosphere”.
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ISRO-RESPOND grant (2022 - 2025): Co-Investigator for the project “Solar Flares: Physics and Forecasting for better understanding of Space Weather”; PI: Durgesh Tripathi, IUCAA, Pune.
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Nvidia Hardware grant: Principal Investigator for the project “Solar wind source region estimation using deep learning”, through an award of Nvidia A100 GPU from the Nvidia Hardware grant 2021.
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FDL 2020: Offered a fully-funded summer internship program at NASA-SETI Frontier Development Lab (FDL) 2020.
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Offered Junior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research University Grants Commission, India for pursuing research in India.
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Offered a fully funded PhD position at Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune, India.
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DAAD-WISE scholar 2016: One among the 170 students selected from 3000 students across all over India to perform researchat a premier institute in Germany for 80 days.
Press releases
- March 2023: NASA-enabled AI Predictions May Give Time to Prepare for Solar Storms by Vanessa Thomas: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/sun/nasa-enabled-ai-predictions-may-give-time-to-prepare-for-solar-storms .
- August 2021: Keeping Tabs on the Quiet Sun in AAS Nova by Susanna Kohler: https://aasnova.org/2021/08/09/featured-image-keeping-tabs-on-the-quiet-sun/.
Services
- Reviewer for articles in the journal AGU: Spaceweather.
- Reviewer for articles in the journal Solar Physics.
- Reviewer for articles in the journal Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
- Reviewer for articles in the journal RAS Techniques and Instruments.