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I am a Scientist-CS (with Continuing Appointment) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico. My research interests include wideband image reconstruction algorithms for radio interferometry (narrow-field, wide-field, mosaics, single dish combination), RFI mitigation strategies (flagging, modeling and excision, automated tuning of algorithms), synthetic aperture radar imaging techniques, software engineering/development and high performance computing solutions and algorithm automation via machine learning.

I currently serve in an algorithm and software design and development role with the NRAO ngRadar project. Prior to this, I have worked within the CASA Scientific Computing/Software group as well as the NRAO Algorithm Research and Development group. Between 2019 and 2025, I have held leadership roles within CASA (Science Development Lead + Group Lead).

I joined the NRAO as an Assistant Scientist shortly after completing my PhD in May 2010 from the department of Physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT), Socorro, New Mexico,USA. For my PhD thesis, I worked with Tim Cornwell on wide-band image reconstruction in radio interferometry. I obtained an MS in Computer Science from the department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California,USA in June 2004. I completed undergraduate degrees in Physics and Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India in May 2002. As part of the BITS practice school programme, I did two internships at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA,TIFR ), Pune, India.