Aman Kumar 
(amanasci)

Explorer, Researcher and Engineer.
I love exploring mathematics, computer science, electronics, physics and biology.

Contact : kumaramanasci@gmail.com

Read more about my interests on my blog! 

Current Positions

List of positions I am currently holding

1.  Masters Student @ Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India & Savitri Bai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.

2.  Founder @ Psintica

Previous Experience

1.  Electrical Engineering @ Tezpur University, Tezpur, India.

2.  Visiting Student @ Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.

3.  Research Intern @ Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal.

4.  Research Intern @ IFJ PAN Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences
(Worked remotely with Dr. Gopal Bhatta)

5.  Research Intern @ Department of Applied Sciences, Tezpur University
(Worked on Accretion near Black Holes  and other compact objects with Dr. Biplob Sarkar)

6.   Research Mentee @ Old Dominion University, USA
(Learnt about Nuclear Physics, Lattice QCD and other exciting stuff from Dr. Raul Briceno and Dr. Andrew Jackura)

7.  Year Long Student @ The Coding School
( Studied in the first batch of Intro to Quantum Computing Course by The Coding School by IBM )

Publications 

1.   Vivek Reddy Pininti, Gopal Bhatta, Sagarika Paul, Aman Kumar, Aayushi Rajgor, Rahul Barnwal, Sarvesh Gharat, Exploring short-term optical variability of blazars using TESS, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 518, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 1459–1471, 
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3125


2.   Gopal Bhatta, Sarvesh Gharat, Abhimanyu Borthakur, Aman Kumar, Gamma-ray Blazar Classification using Machine Learning with Advanced Weight Initialization and Self-Supervised Learning Techniques, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 528, Issue 1, February 2024, Pages 976–986, 
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae028


3.   Aman Kumar, Sarvesh Gharat, Star Classification: A Deep Learning Approach for Identifying Binary and Exoplanet Stars, 
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.13115