Education
- Ph.D. Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (February 2008)
- M.S. Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (May 2003)
- B.Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (May 1999)
Research Experience
- The Connection between Galaxy Kinematics and HI Line Widths as Applied to the Distance Scale, Rick Fisher, Ed Murphy and Karen O'Neil, advisers (June 2003–February 2008)
- Detection of Atomic Hydrogen in Distant Galaxies in the Presence of Radar Interference, Rick Fisher and Richard Bradley, advisers (December 2002–May 2003)
- Characterization of RFI at the GBT and the Arecibo Radio Telescope, Rick Fisher and Richard Bradley, advisers (June 2001–November 2002)
- Design of Electronic Circuit for Opto-Electronic Implementation of Perceptron, Anjan Ghosh, adviser (May 1998–April 1999)
- Software development for GMRT Pulsar Back-end Processor, Yashwant Gupta, adviser (May–July 1998)
Work Experience
- Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia (2001–2003)
- Webmaster, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia (2002–)
- Software Developer, Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon,
India (1999–2001)
- Developed Call Data Record analysis program for GSM networks
- Developed Fraud Monitoring and Reporting Tool for GSM networks
- Involved in coding of protocol stacks RLC/MAC for GSM networks
- Designed and implemented MAP protocol for 2.5G GSM networks
- Developed an HLR Simulator for testing with a 2.5G GSM Support Node
Computer Skills
- Programming: C, IDL, glish, python, HTML, PHP, MySQL, perl, SDL, C++, java, pascal
- Other Software: AIPS, AIPS++, glish, IDL, MATLAB, PGPLOT, ClearCase, cvs, LaTeX, Mathematica, octave, purify, rcs
Awards and Honors
- NRAO Pre-Doctoral Fellow (June 2004–May 2006)
- Nominated for Seven Society Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2003)
- Team Award for having shown exceptional initiative and commitment to ensure timely delivery of the 2.5G GSM Support Node at Hughes Software Systems (2000)
- National Talent Scholarship, National Council of Educational Research and Training (1993–1999)
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