Avinash Kumar
Doctoral Student at Institute of Astrophysics, FORTH
Heraklion, Region of Crete, Greece
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Top SchoolAvinash Kumar is a doctoral student at the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH, leading VLBI-based searches for milli-lensing to probe sub-galactic dark matter structure as part of an ERC-supported project. With eight years of experience across radio astronomy, AGN studies, and big-data VLBI pipelines, he blends hands-on signal processing and large-scale data analysis with observational campaign design. His background includes citizen-science roots at RAD@home and collaborative roles on high-profile projects such as UC Berkeley SETI-Amity and the ISRO-funded Aditya-L1 support cell, giving him a rare mix of grassroots discovery and institutional mission work. Comfortable working across academia, international observatories and space agency collaborations, he delivers reproducible analyses under tight instrument and calibration constraints. Colleagues describe him as methodical and curious — he often leverages citizen-science workflows to accelerate professional research pipelines. Based in Heraklion, Crete, he focuses on turning complex interferometric datasets into tractable constraints on dark matter at milli-arcsecond scales.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MSc), Physics, Master of Science (MSc), Physics at Ewing Christian College(Autonomous College)
Github Skills (19)
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numba3
webpages3
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jupyter-notebook2
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
avialxee/rgbmaker-web
May 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 106 commits, 55 pushes in 1 year 4 months
avialxee/scoobi
Jan 2023 - Aug 2023
Solar Conventionality-based Organizing Observation data ( SCOOBI ) for ARIES Nainital
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 9 PRs in 7 months
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