CV

Education

• Int. M.Sc. (Majoring in Physics), 2025- NISER, Bhubaneswar, India
  • CGPA - 8.58/10

Research experience

• Master’s Thesis: Correlating the Galactic Magnetic Field and the Galactic Synchrotron
  • Working under the supervision of Dr. Tuhin Ghosh (NISER)
  • This is in continuation with the Summer 2023 work.
  • Simulated Synchrotron maps using best fitted parameters with respect to WMAP data.
  • Studying the statistics of these fields using Power spectrum, Minkowski Functionals.
  • Developing a julia code for Minkowski Functional Calculations.
• Summer 2024: NORDITA Summer Internship
  • Worked under the supervision of Dr. Sambit Giri.
  • Construction of Halo merger trees for dark matter.
  • Merger tree construction based on Extended Press-Schecter Theory (GALFORM Algorithm).
  • Observed the change in merger trees for different choice of Cosmological parameters.
• Summer 2023: SERB MATRICS Fellow
  • Correlating Synchrotron radiation with Galactic Magnetic Field: I have tried to match statistics of data with that of generated from simulations and, used power spectrum and Minkowkski Functionals to study their statistics, and investigate their correlation.
  • Funded by Science and Engineering Research Board.
  • Host Institute: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India.
  • Guides: Dr. Pravabati Chingangbam, Dr. Tuhin Ghosh (NISER), Dr. Vincent Pelgrims (ULB).
  • Outcomes: Work is still in progress.
• Independent Research Project
  • Self Supervised Active Learning Search Algorithm (SALSA): We devised an active learning guided algorithm to explore the latent space generated through representation learning heads on a dataset, and used it to discover newer samples of a particular class.
  • Collaborated with Diptarko Choudhury.
  • Guide: Dr. Subhankar Mishra.
  • Outcomes: Manuscript for publication has been submitted to a conference.
• Summer 2022: Summer Research Fellow @ Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru
  • I analysed X-ray spectrum of several dual Active Galactic Nucleus and tried to find the presence of Fe-K$\alpha$ lines using Chandra CIAO and HEASOFT. I also tried to constrain the dynamics of blackhole through spectral fitting with different models.
  • Funded by Indian Academy of Sciences.
  • Host Institute: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India.
  • Guides: Dr. Mousumi Das and Dr. Santanu Mondal.
  • Outcomes: This has contributed to a work, which has been accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics.[arxiv]

Publications

• Detection of the Fe K lines from the binary AGN in 4C+37.11. Santanu Mondal , Mousumi Das, K. Rubinur, Karishma Bansal, Aniket Nath , and Greg B. Taylor [arxiv]

Achievements

• NORDITA Summer Fellow (Stockholm University, Stockholm), 2024
• SERB MATRICS Fellow (Visiting Student at IIA, Bengaluru), 2023
• Summer Research Fellow (IASc, INSA, NASI). 2022
• DISHA (DAE Incentive Scheme for Holistic Science Education and Augmentation) Scholarship, 2020-25

Schools and Conferences Attended

• Conference on Blazars and Restless AGNs (COBRA) : 2024
  • COBRA was hosted by School of Astrophysics, Presidency University.
  • Participant in the Workshop.
• 21 cm Cosmology Winter School : 2023
  • Hosted by NISER Bhubaneswar.
  • Participant in the 2023 Winter School.
• Radio Astronomy Winter School (RAWS) : 2022
  • RAWS was jointly hosted by IUCAA and NCRA
  • I was selected for RAWS-2022.
  • I learnt some basic techniques of Radio Astronomy and it’s applications in different domains.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant: CS640 Machine Learning 2024.

Skills

• Communication Skills
  • English - Full Professional Proficiency
  • Bengali - Native or Bilingual Proficiency
  • Hindi - Native or Bilingual Proficiency
• Computer Languages
  • Python
  • Julia
  • FORTRAN
  • C/C++
• Libraries, Utilities and Softwares
  • Github
  • Numpy, Scipy, Astropy
  • ROOT-CERN
  • Chandra CIAO
  • NASA HEASOFT
  • Healpix (healpy)
  • NaMaster (pymaster)
• Utilities
  • Latex
  • Google docs
  • MS-Word

Referees

• Prof. Mousumi Das, Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India
• Dr. Sambit Giri, Nordita Fellow, Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics, (NORDITA), Stockholm, Sweden.
• Dr. Tuhin Ghosh, Reader-F, National Institute of Science Education and Research Bhubaneswar, Jatni, India
• Prof. Pravabati Chingangbam, Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India
• Dr. Santanu Mondal, Ramanujan Fellow, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India
• Dr. Luke Robert Chamandy, Reader-F, National Institute of Science Education and Research Bhubaneswar, Jatni, India

Service and leadership

• Talks Organising Committe, NISER Astronomy Club
• Founder Member of Vaktavya, NISER Debating Club
• President, Vaktavya, NISER Debating Club (2024-2025).
• Rajya Puraskar Scout, The Bharat Scouts and Guides