Education
- 2010-2015: Ph.D, Applied topology and Cosmology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
- 2006-2009: M.S., Physics & Astrophysics, Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
- 2003-2006: B.Sc., Physics (H) & Mathematics, St. Stephens college, University of Delhi, India.
Award and honors
- 2019 -- : FIL Interlab grant for hiring two master students for internship (in collaboration with INSA Lyon)
- 2017- : M.S., Physics & Astrophysics, Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
- 2016 -- 2017: Andrew and Erna Viterbi Fellowship, Technion, Israel
- 2010 -- 2014: Ubbo Emmius Fellowship (PHD), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- 2007 -- 2008: Selected for undergraduate research school, University of Lancashire, UK
- 2006 -- 2007: Selected for undergraduate research school, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- 2003 -- 2006: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) student associate under Central Program for Youth Leadership in Science (CPYLS) for being in the top 0.1% scorers in higher secondary examination at national level, India
- 2002: National Cyber Olympiad, All India Rank 5
- 2001: National Cyber Olympiad, All India Rank 1
Services
- Reviewer services for: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Selected talks
- "Topology and geometry: Application to cosmological datasets", Korean Institute of Advanced Studies 9th Cosmology workshop -- online, Seoul, South Korea, 2020 (Invited Speaker)
- "Topology of fractal models: an approach to characterizing cracks in reservoirs", 48th International -Summer School-Conference -- online, Advanced Problems in Mechanics, Moscow, Russia, 2020 (Invited speaker)
- "Homology of Gaussian random fields" Set Estimation: a bridge between Spatial Statistics and Stochastic Geometry, International Center for Mathematical Meetings (CIRM) Luminy, France, 2020 (Invited speaker) (postponed)
- "Unexpected topology of the temperature fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background", CAFFE LATTES: cosmological analysis featuring galactic foreground emission, Lattes, France, 2020 (Invited speaker) (postponed)
- "Topology of the matter distribution in the Universe", Colloquium, Chebyshev Lab. of Applied Mathematics, St. Petersburg State University Russia, 2019 (Invited speaker)
- "Simplicial Topology", Colloquium, Discrete and Computational Geometry Lab., Jaroslavl State University Russia, 2019 (Invited speaker)
- "Testing isotropy and homogeneity in the CMB", Inhomogeneous cosmologies IV, Torun, Poland, 2019 (Invited speaker)
- "Persistent holes in the Universe", Colloquium, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India, 2019 (Invited speaker)
- "Hypothesis testing with persistent homology", Colloquium, Institut national des sciences appliques de Lyon (INSA LYON), 2019 (Invited speaker)
- "Identification of cosmic structures", Colloquium, Ludwig-Maxmillian University (LMU), Munich, Germany, 2018 (Invited speaker)
- "Tukey depth and CMB data", Session at CME Statistics conference, Pisa Italy, 2018 (Invited speaker)
- "Intensity maps as empirical probabilistic description of persistence diagrams", Applied Probability seminar, Department of Mathematics, Technion, Israel, 2014 (Invited speaker)
- "Probing for primordial non-Gaussianity using topological methods", Primordial Features and Non-Gaussianities, HRI, Allahabad, India, 2010 (Speaker)