AST 201 Stars and Galaxies

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AST201 Stars and Galaxies

Massey College Governing Board Risk Committee 2020-2021Co-chair Lionel Massey Fund 2019-2020Co-founder and co-chair MasseyScope committee 2018-2020

I worked with Prof. Ranjan Gupta, Professor at IUCAA, as a Final-Year Research Project Student. I automated stellar spectral ​classification of the LAMOST​ spectral survey using Artificial Neural Networks.

I worked under the supervision of Dr. Sheelu Abraham, Post Doctoral Fellow at IUCAA, on the classification of periodic variables in the Catalina Surveys Periodic Variable Catalog (CRTS).

I successfully completed the Google Summer of Code 2017 program as a student developer for Astropy, a sub-organisation under the umbrella organisation OpenAstronomy. My mentors were Dr. Thomas Aldcroft, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk, University of Toronto, and Dr. Moritz Guenther, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.The aim of my project "A mixin protocol for seamless interoperability" was to solve the issue of storing time… Show more I successfully completed the Google Summer of Code 2017 program as a student developer for Astropy, a sub-organisation under the umbrella organisation OpenAstronomy. My mentors were Dr. Thomas Aldcroft, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk, University of Toronto, and Dr. Moritz Guenther, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.The aim of my project "A mixin protocol for seamless interoperability" was to solve the issue of storing time coordinates in the FITS World Coordinate System, which has been open since September 2014. Not only did I solve the three-year old issue, but I also implemented nearly the full FITS time standard in Astropy, a feature not yet supported by any other software. I developed a protocol to write and read time values in the FITS format without any loss of data and/or attributes, and added a generalised read feature to interpret time from a large subset of the astronomical datasets (Chandra, XMM, HST, etc.).I am now one of the core contributors to Astropy. Show less

During the summer of 2016, I worked under the supervision of Dr. Kaustubh Vaghmare, Data Scientist at IUCAA, on a research project that automated the estimation of distance to star clusters. Subsequently, I was invited to deliver a lecture on astronomical photometry and the research project at IUCAA by the Astronomy Club, Antariksh, of Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune.