People
People
Lightcurve is a small computational astrophysics group at TIFR Mumbai working across helioseismology, asteroseismology, exoplanets, and a secondary track in Earth's interior. The team blends physics-led modelling with machine learning and statistical inference applied to lightcurve data.
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Advisory Board
Senior advisors guiding the group's scientific direction. Full bios will be added - written by the advisors themselves.
Arpita Roy
Schmidt Sciences
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Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Aarhus University
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Shrinivas Kulkarni
Caltech
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Karthikeyan Shanmugam
Google DeepMind
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Bharat Kaul
Intel
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Principal Investigator
Shravan Hanasoge
Principal Investigator
Shravan Hanasoge joined the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, as a faculty member in 2013. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University, where he worked with the Solar Group on developing computational techniques to enable the seismology of the solar interior. He then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, with appointments as a visiting scholar at Courant Institute of Mathematical Science and an Associate fellow of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.
Team
Postdocs, PhD students, junior research fellows, scientific staff, and alumni. Use the rail to switch between groups.
Meenakshi Gaira
Postdoctoral Researcher
Meenakshi's research focuses on the asteroseismology of evolved stars — from subgiants to red giants. She applies a combination of machine learning and classical techniques to study their internal structure and evolution.
Bhaskar Illa
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bhaskar is currently working on homogenization of the seismic wave equation using renormalization group theory and high-dimensional optimization through reinforcement learning. He was a visiting researcher at the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, where he carried out research in fiber-optic seismology. He received his PhD from CSIR-NGRI for research in anisotropic seismic tomography applied to terrestrial seismology.
Anohita Mallick
Postdoctoral Researcher
Anohita's research focuses on asteroseismology, particularly the study of granulation and convection in evolved stars. She works on linking seismic observables with spectroscopic parameters to better constrain stellar structure and evolution.
Hemapriya Raju
Postdoctoral Researcher
Hemapriya is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and solar physics. Her research focuses on understanding and forecasting space weather disturbances such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar wind — including the probability of their emergence and arrival at Earth — to help protect space and ground-based infrastructure.