Sanjay Bhatnagar

Sanjay Bhatnagar received the master’s degree in physics from the IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India, and the Ph.D. degree in physics and astronomy in 2001 from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)/Pune University, Pune, India. He joined TIFR in 1991 and as part of his Ph.D. work, he was involved in the building and commissioning of the giant meterwave radio telescope (GMRT). He developed algorithms and software for imaging and calibration of radio interferometric data at low frequencies and was the first to use GMRT for astronomical imaging at low radio frequencies for his thesis on galactic supernova remnants. In 2002, he joined the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Socorro, NM, USA, where he is currently an Associate Scientist and has developed several new algorithms for the calibration and high dynamic range imaging of data specifically from aperture synthesis radio telescopes. He is currently involved in the development of offline data analysis algorithms and software for the expanded very large array and the Atacama large millimeter array telescopes. Dr. Bhatnagar is a member of the Imaging and Calibration Working Group for the Square Kilometer Array.