Postdoctoral Fellows
December 2025 - Present
DRDO-funded project: meter-scale orbit prediction of LEO satellites
PhD Research Scholars
December 2020 - April 2026
Funding Agency: CSIR, MInistry of Science and Technology, India
X-ray reverberation in accreting black hole system: A test of General Theory of Relativity using X-ray observations
December 2021 - Present
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education, Govt of India
Classification of X-ray point sources in nearby Galaxies using spectroscopic evolutionwith Chandra X-ray observatory
July 2023 - Present
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education, Govt of India
Understanding physical processes in X-ray binary using X-ray spectroscopy and polarization measurement techniques
July 2024 - Present
Funding Agency: DST-INSPIRE, Department of Science and Technology, India
Understanding evolution of short-period contact binaries through high resolution spectro-photometry and simulating merging timescale
July 2024 - Present
Funding Agency: UGC, Government of India
Understanding Planetary Architecture formation through migration: modelling pathways to puzzling Ultra Short Period Planets
July 2025 - Present
Funding Agency: CHESS-DRDO, Ministry of Defense, Government of India
Developing and testing physics-driven numerical LEO orbit propogator to high accuracy
Project Students
December 2025 - Present
DRDO-funded project: Testing feasibility of tracking residential and near-Earth objects
MSc Thesis
2024 - 2026 Batch
Nihal Mohamed Thalakkott
Krushna Chandra Mahali
Kumar Abhishek
Vikas Gill
2023 - 2025 Batch
Tanu Chowdhury
Polarization studies using IXPE data to investigate spectral state transition in black holes
Current Status - Internship, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Vivek Shinde
AGN Correlated variability study in multiwavelength using damped random walk model
Current status: Teacher, Greenvalley Junior College, Warangal, Telangana
Neelanjana Dey
Machine Learning-based Feature Detection in Time Series Data from Black Hole Systems
Current Status - PhD, Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras
Jyotiraditya Mandal
Analysis of atmospheric seeing and stellar variability using on-campus telescope
Current Status: Aspiring PhD. Preparation Ongoing
Devanshi Pawar
Search for New X-ray Sources in the Chandra Deep Field (CDF) Survey Using the Wavelet Transformation
Current Status: Aspiring PhD. Preparation Ongoing
Maadhurima Mondal
Probing accreting supermassive blackhole jet activity using spectro polarimetry technique
Current Status: Placed in MNC, Bangalore
2022 - 2024 Batch
Anish Sarkar
Role of Magnetic fields in launching magnetized outflows via the Blandford-Payne Mechanism
Current Status - PhD, Australian National University
Tanmoy Dutta
Exploring the origin of the extended flaring branch in Z-type neutron stars
Current Status - PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Sumanta Biswas
Phase resolved spectroscopy to probe the origin of Quasi-periodic Oscillations
Current Status - PhD, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology, China
Ravina Paldiya
Phase lag properties of Active Galactic Nuclei in the ultraviolet band
Current Status - Educator, Physics Wallah, Hyderabad
2021 - 2023 Batch
Shuvajit Khatua
Understanding the origin of large amplitude flux variation in GRS 1915+105
Current Status - PhD, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
2020 - 2022 Batch
Priyansh Jaswal
Understanding the nature of complex X-ray variabilities in the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105
Current Status - PhD, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata