Attended and contributed a talk at the DAOISM workshop oh ISM studies with data science and PPV spectral cubes, held at the Institut Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), France ๐ซ๐ท, on my ongoing project on high-z interferometric denoising benchmarks and beyond moment-0 physical galactic property inference from high-z galaxy spectral data cubes using deep learning and sparsity. Was amazing to see Paris again during spring!
January, February 2026
Commenced my two-month secondment at the CosmoStat Laboratory (LCS) at the Department of Astrophysics at CEA Paris-Saclay, France, where I continued my work on signal processing and physical inference with high-z galaxy data cubes with deep learning and sparsity, and collaborated with researchers at LCS on related projects and scientific events like seminars and journal clubs.
Contributed a talk at the Deep CosmoStat Days collaborative meeting with researchers from Greece, France and Germany on my ongoing project on beyond moment-0 physical galactic property inference.
September 2025
Participated in the MINOAS โ Machine Intelligence for iNverse imaging, Observation Analysis and Sensing Workshop held at FORTH's Institute of Computer Science in Heraklion, Greece, and presented a poster on my work on spectral cube denoising using sparsity and deep learning.
August 2025
Was selected to take part in the Code/Astro workshop on software development for Astrophysics, held at Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) | Northwestern University, Illinois, USA ๐บ๐ธ, focusing on best practices in scientific software development, version control, and collaborative coding in astrophysics research. I worked on an end-to-end group project with other participants on an astronomical software package.
June 2025
Volunteered as a teaching assistant for the Astrostatistics Summer School 2025 held at the Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece ๐ฌ๐ท, guiding students in practical sessions on statistical methods and machine learning applications in astrophysics.
Attended the UniversAI : Exploring the Universe using Artificial Intelligence - symposium held in Athens, Greece ๐ฌ๐ท, and contributed a poster on "Deep and Sparse Denoising of high-z Galaxy Spectral Datacubes - From Simulations to ALMA observations"
March 2025
Began my secondment as a visitng PhD student at the CosmoStat Laboratory (LCS) at the Department of Astrophysics at Commissariat ร l'รฉnergie atomique et aux รฉnergies alternatives (CEA), Paris, France ๐ซ๐ท, continuing my work on signal processing of high-z galaxy data cubes with deep learning and sparsity.
July 2024
Attended the second edition of the Machine Learning for Astrophysics (ML4ASTRO) conference, held in Catania, Italy ๐ฎ๐น, and contributed a flash talk on blind source separation and astrophysical signal extraction from IFU spectral data cubes of high-z galaxies
May 2024
Attended the Cosmo21 Conference held in Chania, Greece ๐ฌ๐ท, and contributed a poster presentation on the interpretability of CNNs in cosmological inference from large-scale structures of the Universe.
November 2023
Joined the Institutes of Astrophysics and Computer Science at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and the University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece ๐ฌ๐ท, as a PhD student working at the intersection of extragalactic astrophysics and computer science as part of the EU's Horizon 2020 framework programme - ERA chair project.
July 2023
Completed my 5-year Bachelor of Science (BS) - Master of Science (MS) dual degree programme in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, India ๐ฎ๐ณ, with a Master thesis from CCA, Flatiron Institute, USA ๐บ๐ธ