Summary
Siddhant Mutha is a dual-degree undergraduate at IIT Madras and Fergusson College studying Electronic Systems and Physics, combining hands-on electronics with observational astrophysics. He currently contributes to real-time Fast Radio Burst and pulsar detection at NCRA-TIFR’s SPOTLIGHT project, applying high-performance computing and ML clustering to reduce false positives in interferometric data. His practical experience spans antenna testing, PCB filter design for RFI mitigation, and building affordable radio telescopes, reflecting a knack for turning instruments into discovery tools. As a co-founder of Yantra and a core member of his college Astro Club, he bridges student-led robotics and astronomy initiatives to prototype bold ideas quickly. Driven by curiosity, he enjoys extracting faint cosmic signals from noisy data—a skill that blends circuit-level intuition with data-driven signal processing.
11 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
BS Physics, A, BS Physics, A at Fergusson College
Vidydham Jr. college of Science
93%, 93% at Vidydham Prashala ,Shirur
Marwari, Marathi, English, Hindi