Nachiketa Chakraborty
Lecturer at University of Reading
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNachiketa Chakraborty is a lecturer and experienced postdoctoral researcher with over a decade of expertise at the intersection of astrophysics and data science. He holds a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from UIUC and has held research and fellowship positions at the Max-Planck Institute and US universities, now teaching at the University of Reading. Technically fluent in Python, C++, Fortran and advanced quantitative methods, he applies mathematical modeling, time-series analysis and causal inference to complex scientific datasets. He contributes to open-source scientific software—improving light-curve analysis in the widely used gammapy package—bridging domain science with robust, tested tooling. Known for translating deep theoretical knowledge into practical analysis pipelines, he brings both rigorous research training and hands-on software development to academic and collaborative projects.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Vivekanand Education Society of Arts, Science and CommerceFr. Agnels Multipurpose SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, German
Github Skills (9)
astropy10
python10
astronomy10
numpy10
matplotlib10
data-analysis10
pytest9
testing9
scipy8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gammapy/gammapy
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
A Python package for gamma-ray astronomy
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nachiketa focused on developing and enhancing the `LightCurve` class within the `gammapy` repository. They implemented plotting functionality, statistical calculations like the mean and fractional excess variance (Fvar), and a chi-square test. The user also added example usage and tests to ensure the correct functionality of the lightcurve analysis tools within the context of gamma-ray astronomy data.
gamma-rayraypythonnumpyastrophysics
cnachi/cnachiketa.github.io
Apr 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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