Curriculum Vitae

Preshanth Jagannathan

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5825-9635

Employment

• Scientist (Algorithms Research & Development Group), National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM, US, 2025-03-22 - Present
• Associate Scientist (ARDG), National Radio Astronomy Observatory New Mexico Array Operations Center, Socorro, NM, US, 2022-03-22 - 2025-03-22
• Assistant Scientist (ARDG), National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM, US, 2018-02-05 - 2022-03-12
• Reber Pre-Doctoral Fellow, National Radio Astronomy Observatory New Mexico Array Operations Center, Socorro, NM, US, 2014-02-15 - 2017-02-28

Education

• PhD Astronomy, University of Cape Town Faculty of Science, Rondebosch, ZA, 2015-01-01 - 2017-12-19
• MSc Astrophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CA, 2011-09-01 - 2013-12-31
• MSc Space Science, University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, IN, 2005-07-01 - 2007-05-31

Fellowships

• Grote Reber Pre-Doctoral Fellow, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, VA, US, 2013-16

Membership and Service

• Junior Member, International Astronomical Union, Paris, FR, 2022-06-22 - Present
• International Union of Radio Science, Denver, US

Publications

• Fermi Unassociated Sources in the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey. The Astrophysical Journal, 2025. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ada1cf
• Zeeman Spectral Line Fitting. Research Notes of the AAS, 2024. DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/ad9c6c
• Segmenting RFI Using Meta’s Segment Anything Model. Research Notes of the AAS, 2024. DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/ad84fa
• The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey Data Release 2: Wideband continuum catalogues and a measurement of the cosmic radio dipole. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450291
• The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) Data Release. I. Stokes I Image Catalogs at 1–1.4 GHz. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2024. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/acf7b9
• Bias in Polarization CLEAN Imaging. Research Notes of the AAS, 2023. DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/ace89a
• The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey: Homogeneous continuum catalogues towards a measurement of the cosmic radio dipole. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245477
• Discovery of Hydrogen Radio Recombination Lines at z = 0.89 toward PKS 1830-211. The Astrophysical Journal, 2023. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acb49d
• A deep 1.4 GHz survey of the J1030 equatorial field: A new window on radio source populations across cosmic time. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244452
• Discovery, Timing, and Multiwavelength Observations of the Black Widow Millisecond Pulsar PSR J1555–2908. The Astrophysical Journal, 2022. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac49ef
• Direction-dependent Corrections in Polarimetric Radio Imaging. III. A-to-Z Solver—Modeling the Full Jones Antenna Aperture Illumination Pattern. The Astronomical Journal, 2022. DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac41c4
• CASA, Common Astronomy Software Applications for Radio Astronomy. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2022. DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/AC9642
• First discoveries and localizations of Fast Radio Bursts with MeerTRAP: real-time, commensal MeerKAT survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022. DOI: 10.1093/MNRAS/STAC1450
• PKS 1830–211: OH and H I at z = 0.89 and the first MeerKAT UHF spectrum. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202040167
• Blind H i and OH Absorption Line Search: First Results with MALS and uGMRT Processed Using ARTIP. The Astrophysical Journal, 2021. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abcb85
• Multi-Wavelength Study of a Proto-BCG at z = 1.7. Galaxies, 2021. DOI: 10.3390/GALAXIES9040115
• A Spitzer survey of Deep Drilling Fields to be targeted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3714
• Completing the Census of AGN in GOODS-S/HUDF: New Ultradeep Radio Imaging and Predictions for JWST. The Astrophysical Journal, 2020. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb1a0
• Differences in radio emission from similar M dwarfs in the binary system Ross 867-8. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936491
• A Subarcsecond Near-infrared View of Massive Galaxies at z > 1 with Gemini Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics. The Astrophysical Journal, 2018. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad27d
• Revolutionizing Our Understanding of AGN Feedback and its Importance to Galaxy Evolution in the Era of the Next Generation Very Large Array

Skills

• Radio Interferometry
• Polarimetry
• Algorithms R&D
• Software Development (Python, C++, CUDA)
• High-Performance Computing
• Image Processing
• Data Visualization
• Scientific Writing