CV

Education

• Int. M.Sc. (Majoring in Physics), 2025- NISER, Bhubaneswar, India
  • CGPA - 8.65/10

Research experience

• Research Project 2023-24 (Ongoing)
  • Spectral State classification of X-Ray Binaries using Machine Learning
  • This project is being done in collaboration with Dr. Santanu Mondal and Diptarko Choudhury.
  • Work is in progress, and the outcomes will be updated in the website.
• 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.
• Semester Project
  • Explorative Latent Space Search Algorithm (ELSA): 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.
  • Done as a part of introductory course in Machine Learning (CS460).
  • 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: Manuscript for publication has been submitted to a journal and is under review.

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 Attended

• 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.
• 21 cm Cosmology Winter School : 2023
  • Hosted by NISER Bhubaneswar.
  • Participant in the 2023 Winter School

Skills

• Communication Skills
  • English - Full Professional Proficiency
  • Bengali - Native or Bilingual Proficiency
  • Hindi - Native or Bilingual Proficiency
• Computer Languages
  • C/C++
  • Python
  • FORTRAN
• 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. 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

Service and leadership

• Talks Organising Committe, NISER Astronomy Club
• Founder Member of Vaktavya, NISER Debating Club
• Rajya Puraskar Scout, The Bharat Scouts and Guides