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General Information
Full Name | Avinash Kumar |
Affiliation | Institute of Astrophysics - Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (IA - FORTH) |
Languages | English, Hindi |
Education
- 2023 - Present
PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH ; University of Crete.
- The primary goal of my research is to develop an automated pipeline utilising the new CASA software and study the nature of the Supermassive Compact Objects(SMCO).
- Research supported by European Research Council (ERC)
- 2018
MSc Physics
University of Allahabad, Allahabad
- Specialization in Electronics
- 2016
BSc (Physics, Computer Application, Mathematics)
University of Allahabad, Allahabad
- Major in Physics and Computer Application(Voc.)
Research Experience
- Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Senior Project Associate
ARIES Nainital
- Funded by ISRO
- Work to help set up Aditya-L1 Support Cell(AL1SC)
- Project is collaboration of ISRO and ARIES Nainital.
- Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Junior Research Fellow
U C Berkeley SETI - Amity Node
- Funded by Breakthrough Listen Initiative
- Built a semi-automatic pipeline for the SETI backend for the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) to utilise visibility data for imaging the source of interest.
- GMRT observation time of 3 hours accepted under DDT proposal as Principal Investigator; Cycle 42;
- Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Research Intern
RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory India
- May 2018 - July 2018
Research Associate
UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences(CEBS)
- supported by CEBS
Outreach Activities/Talks
- Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
- Taught 4 lectures (online) as an expert; Advanced Python programming for the second boot camp 2024 by Nehru Planetarium Delhi
- Nov 2023
- Taught 2 lectures on Introduction to Numpy, data processing
- “Introduction to Python for Undergrads 2023-24”; The sessions were aimed at the University of Crete Undergraduate students in the Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece
- Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
- Taught 4 lectures (online) as an expert in advanced Python programming, for the Jantar Mantar Positional Astronomy Observations(JMPAO), Nehru Planetarium Delhi
- 2022
- Assisted in organising the second Aditya-L1 Support Cell(AL1SC) Workshop
Academic Interests
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Radio Astronomy
- Very Long Baseline Interferometry(VLBI).
- AGN.
- Instrumentation and Techniques.
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Public Communication
- Citizen Science with RAD@home India.
- Teaching courses with Nehru Planetarium Delhi, Spartificial, .
Open Source Projects
- 2024-Present
vasco
- VLBI and SMILE source based CASA Optimizations (VASCO) - not released for public use yet
- 2024-Present
alfrd
- Automated Logical FRamework for Dynamic script execution(ALFRD)
- 2022-2023
scoobi
- Solar Conventionality-based Organizing Observation data ( SCOOBI ) for ARIES Nainital
- 2021-present
setisim
- SETI synthesis imaging
- 2021-2022
turbo_seti
- turboSETI -- python based SETI search algorithm.
- 2021-present
rgbmaker
- A python package which communicates to different astronomical services and fetches fits and numerical data.
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Reading, Hiking, Running etc.