CV

PhD, Astrophysics

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

• A large systematic study of young neutron stars through a novel Bayesian inference framework.
• Developed the data analysis pipeline used in the MeerKAT radio telescope.
• First high-precision study of neutron star rotational properties using the MeerKAT radio telescope.
• Involved in commissioning and building scheduling pipelines for various radio telescopes.

Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation and Control

Anna University, India

• Developed maximum power point tracking algorithms for solar panels used in drones.

ERC Starting Grant and Veni Fellow

ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.

• Group leader for GIGA, an ERC-funded project to advance pulsar timing arrays in radio and gamma-ray wavelengths.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Albert Einstien Institute, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Hannover, Germany

Postdoctoral Researcher

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany

• Demonstrated for the first time that NASA's Fermi Space telescope can be used to search for gravitational waves.
• Led an international group of scientists working towards developing advanced statistical methodologies in the search for the gravitational wave background using pulsar timing arrays.

Research Assistant

Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India

• Developed software and visualisation toolkits to precisely map radio telescope surfaces.
• Assisted in development of various robotics and computer vision projects.

• International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)
• European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA)
• MeerTime (Large Survey Project with the MeerKAT radio telescope)
• The Fermi Collaboration (NASA)
• The TRAPUM collaboration
• Former OzGrav (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence) affiliate

MeerPipe

• A Python-based data analysis pipeline for analysing neutron star observations with the MeerKAT radio telescope.

TempoNest

• A Bayesian inference framework for modelling stochastic processes in time-series data from observing neutron stars.

• International Pulsar Timing Array Student Workshops (for tutorials, see Blog)

• South African Pulsar Timing Workshop

• Public outreach talks (see Blog)

• IPTA Data combination workshop, Virtual

• Lectures at IMPRS student retreat, Remagen, Germany

• Einstein telescope community meeting, Hanover, Germany

• Gravitational Wave Orchestra meeting, Belgium

• Virtual IPTA meeting

• PHAROS meeting in Rome, Italy

• EPTA meeting, Ringberg, Germany (Lead Organiser)

• Virtual EPTA meeting

• Virtual AMALDI meeting

• Virtual IPTA meeting

• OzGrav Inference Workshop, Melbourne, Australia

• IPTA meeting, India

• OzGrav retreat, Perth, Australia

• IPTA meeting, Socorro, New Mexico (Scientific Organising Committee)

• Fast Radio Bursts Conference, Melbourne, Australia

• SearchSoft conference, Cape Town, South Africa

• CSIRO Radio Astronomy Conference, Narrabri, Australia

• IPTA meeting, Sèvres, France

• Futute of Pulsar Timing with Parkes, Parkes, Australia

• CAASTRO Retreat, Perth, Australia

• Visiting researcher at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

• IPTA meeting, Sydney, Australia