Deepthi Gorthi Radio astronomer

Resume

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Astronomy

University of California, Berkeley

Calender August 2015 - (Expected) May 2021

 

B.E. Electronics

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Calender August 2010 - May 2015

 

M.Sc. Physics

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Calender August 2010 - May 2015

   

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

CPU Ring-Buffer based File Writing Pipeline

Calender January 2019 - Present

  • Collaborative project hosted on Github
  • Pipeline processes 33 Gbps data over 16 servers and write the data to a RAID disk system
  • Leverages packet sockets, shared memory and semaphores in C-language to create easy-to-access HDF5 based files with dynamically generated headers

 

Xilinx© Vivado™ based FPGA Design

Calender June 2016 - August 2018

  • Collaborative project hosted on Github
  • Designed and built the signal processing pipeline for an interferometer (operating as a receiving phased array) with 350 elements, operating over 200 MHz bandwidth
  • Created a Python interface to the FPGA that enabled observers to dynamically change the FPGA design parameters

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Calibration Techniques for Large Phased Arrays

Calender January 2018 - Present

Devised two calibration schemes for phased arrays that are agnostic to the object detected.

 

Data Analysis on Crab Pulsar

Calender January 2017 - August 2018

Satistically analysed 10TB of data in Python, looking for the characteristic time-domain and spectral signature of the Crab pulsar

 

MCMC Modelling of Non-Gaussianities in the Universe

Calender August 2017 - Aug 2018

Fit the parameters of the evolution of the universe to quasar data from an optical survey, through Multi-Chain Monte Carlo

 

 

AWARDS

  • Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley  

  • Allan and Kathleen Gateway Fellowship, UC Berkeley  

  • Best Outgoing Student, Physics Department at BITS Pilani  

  • Merit Scholarship for 0.1% of class, BITS Pilani  

  • DAAD Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service

 

 

LEADERSHIP

Teaching

  • Graduate Instructor for four different courses over two years (>200 students)
  • Developed curriculum and created Python-based tools for the undergraduate lab course on radio astronomy, hosted on Github and on the class wiki
  • Mentored undergraduate students with coursework, graduate school applications and recommendations for future positions

 

Positions of Responsibility

  • Head, Outreach Programs at UC Berkeley– gave multiple public talks about on-going research work and organized students for science fairs

  • Student lead, Institute Cafeteria Services at BITS Pilani– Led 3000 strong student body in negotiations with cafeteria workers union to establish new campus-wide catering system

 

 

CONFERENCES

  • Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array Collaoration Meeting

    University of Cambridge (2019)

 

  • Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research

    Harvard (2019) and CalTech (2017)

 

  • National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI)

    University of Colorado, Boulder (2018)