CV

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Positions

  • 2024-now
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    Northeastern University, Boston, MA
  • 2023-2024
    Visiting Researcher
    Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India
    • Host: Prof. Tarun Souradeep
  • 2022-2023
    Swiss Government Excellence Fellow
    Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Host: Prof. Julien Carron

Education

  • 2019-2024
    PhD
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
    Physics
    • Thesis: Novel Bayesian Inferences from the Cosmic Microwave Background
    • Advisor: Prof. Tarun Souradeep
  • 2017-2019
    M.Sc.
    IISER, Pune, India
    Physics
    • Analysed high-energy cosmic-ray air-shower data using machine learning and deep learning techniques
    • Developed a Monte Carlo pipeline to simulate air showers for different primary species
  • 2014-2017
    B.Sc.
    Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur (University of Calcutta), India
    Physics

Awards

  • 2022
    Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (Research)
    Université de Genève / ESKAS No. 2022.0316

    CHF 23,540 stipend + CHF 600 travel allowance.

  • 2023
    Grant, Future Science with CMB × LSS, YITP Kyoto
    Société académique de Genève (SACAD)

    2000 CHF.

  • 2023
    Infosys Foundation Travel Award and Fellowship
    Infosys Foundation

    50,000 INR, to attend Future Cosmology, IESC Cargèse.

  • 2019
    Institute PhD Fellowship
    IISER Pune (MHRD)
  • 2017
    Institute M.Sc. Fellowship
    IISER Pune (MHRD)
  • 2017
    State Topper, National Graduate Physics Examination
    Indian Association of Physics Teachers

    Top 1% of 774 candidates.

  • 2014
    DST-INSPIRE Scholarship
    Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

Invited Talks

  • Apr 2026 — Mapping Dark Matter from the Stratosphere (seminar), CCAPP Seminar, Ohio State University
  • Apr 2026 — Inferences from the CMB & Balloons (seminar), CMB Lunch Talk, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Apr 2026 — Mapping Dark Matter from the Stratosphere (seminar), KIPAC Tea Talk, Stanford University
  • Apr 2026 — Mapping Dark Matter from the Stratosphere (seminar), Dark-Sector Meeting, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
  • Apr 2026 — Mapping Dark Matter from the Stratosphere (seminar), Cosmology Journal Club, Caltech

Mentoring

  • 2025–present — Adam Field (undergraduate, Worcester Polytechnic Institute): neural-network-based shear estimation (ShearNet)
  • Jun–Jul 2026 — Karuna Tarafdar and Adam Aoua, NSF-funded Young Scholars Program (YSP), Northeastern University
  • Jun–Jul 2025 — Leila Ohashi and Marcus Michaud, NSF-funded Young Scholars Program (YSP), Northeastern University
  • 2024–2025 — Maya Amit, Northeastern Co-op program; currently a graduate student at NYU