CAPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Pipeline Scientist, LSST DESC
contact information
- Email: ayan@illinois.edu
- Phone: 2179740644
- Address 1205 W. Clake St. Urbana, Il 61801, USA
education
- PhD. UPMC, Sorbonne, Paris, France, 2016.
- M.Sc. University of Sussex, U.K., 2013
- B.Sc. St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta, India, 2011
Past academic positions
- Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow, IUCAA, India, 2021-2023. Supervisor : Prof. Surhud More
- Postdoc, Nazarbayev University, 2019-2021. Supervisor(s) : Eric Linder, Prof. Vasilieos Zarikas, Prof. Ernazar Abdikamalov
- Postdoc, Indian Statistical Institute, India, 2016-2018. Supervisor : Prof. Goutam Paul
Awards and grants
- CAPS fellowship, NCSA, UIUC, USA
- Lagrange Fellowship, ILP, CNRS, France
- National top 1% of students in the National Graduate Physics Examina-
tion(NGPE) conducted across 184 centers throughout India (http://iapt.org.in/) - Data Incubator Fellowship (16000 Eur), 2017
- Master’s Studentship Grant, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2011-12. (Declined)
Research interests
- Supernova Ia cosmology, dark energy, machine learning, data analysis, GW waves.
publications
Courses taught
- Solid State Physics, KBTU, Kazakhstan. Master’s students (2021-22)
- Introduction to Electrodynamics, Nazarbayev University : 1 semester (2020)
Other
Media
Cosmology with Supernova Ia in the LSST Era
Fun facts : I can speak 5 languages (English, French, Russian, Bengali, Hindi). Horse riding is almost an addiction. Favourite hobby : Playing piano.