Akshatha K Vydula is a Ph.D. (Astrophysics) student at the School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University. She works with Dr. Judd Bowman in the Low-frequency Cosmology Lab. Her research is focused on using the pulsar gating method in beam calibration of radio interferometers which can be used in better studying the signals from Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization. She mainly works with Long-Wavelength Array, and Very Large Array For her second project, she works with Dr. Coupland at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Dr. Hardgrove at ASU on the measurement of neutron lifetime using a space-based neutron spectrometer.
During her undergrad, Akshatha has interned with the University of Groningen (2020), the Netherlands, and Raman Research Institute, Bangalore(2018 and 2019), where she has used and explored various signal processing techniques to extract meaningful information from terabytes of data recorded by radio telescopes (LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR, Dwingeloo, Netherlands), Sky Watch Array Network (SWAN, Gauribidanur, India), Shaped Antenna measurement of the background RAdio Spectrum (SARAS - Hanle, India)).
Akshatha likes to spend her non-working hours cooking, reading (non-fiction), listening to Podcasts and music (The Beatles, Queen, Elton John, and alike). Personal Homepage linked here.