SURF Students
The Experimental Gravity Group hosts undergraduate researchers each summer through the LIGO SURF program and the joint IUCAA-LIGO India-SURF program. Students work on experimental and computational projects spanning detector hardware, quantum optics, controls, and data analysis.
| Year | Student | Program | Where Now | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Vishawanath | India-SURF | — | — |
| 2025 | Tanisha | India-SURF | — | — |
| 2025 | Amarnath | India-SURF | — | — |
| 2024 | Prakhar Maheshwari | India-SURF | Founder, PreciQube | — |
| 2024 | Jacob Cherry Sam | India-SURF | IISER Trivandrum | — |
| 2024 | Dhatri Ragunathan | India-SURF | Integrated Masters, IIT Kharagpur | — |
| 2024 | Anubhav Prakash | India-SURF | Research Scientist, Vantage Research, Chennai | — |
| 2023 | Andrei Diaconu | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2023 | Reuben Mathew | India-SURF | Masters at FAU Erlangen | — |
| 2023 | Advait Mehla | India-SURF | PostBac at Caltech | — |
| 2023 | Kushal Jain | India-SURF | PhD at Cardiff | — |
| 2022 | Hiya Gada | India-SURF | PhD at MIT | — |
| 2022 | Deeksha Sabhari | India-SURF | Masters at Northwestern | — |
| 2021 | Bhavini Jeloka | India-SURF | Georgia Institute of Technology | — |
| 2021 | Anirban Bairagi | India-SURF | PhD, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris | — |
| 2020 | Rushabha B | India-SURF | — | — |
| 2020 | Srijan Gupta | India-SURF | — | — |
| 2020 | Sanika Khadkikar | India-SURF | PhD at Penn State | — |
| 2020 | Swadha Pandey | India-SURF | PhD at MIT | — |
| 2019 | Elona Bytyqi | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2019 | Milind Kumar Vaddiraju | India-SURF | PhD student at UIUC | — |
| 2019 | Shalika Singh | India-SURF | Masters at Institute of Science Tokyo | — |
| 2019 | Subhabrata Mukherjee | India-SURF | Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Hippocratic AI | — |
| 2019 | Kruthi Krishna | India-SURF | PhD Student w Samaya | — |
| 2018 | Pooja Sekhar | India-SURF | PhD UC Boulder/NIST | — |
| 2018 | Keerthana S Nair | India-SURF | Scientist at NaMLab, Dresden | — |
| 2018 | Disha Kapasi | India-SURF | Postdoc at Cal State, Fullerton | — |
| 2018 | Shruti Jose Maliakal | India-SURF | PhD at Caltech | — |
| 2017 | Vineeth Krishna | India-SURF | Postdoc at UMich | — |
| 2017 | Dhruva Ganapathy | India-SURF | Postdoc at UC Berkeley | T1700336 |
| 2017 | Kaustubh Singhi | India-SURF | PhD at ICTS | — |
| 2017 | Jigyasa Nigam | India-SURF | Postdoc at MIT | — |
| 2017 | Naomi Wharton | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2016 | Varun Kelkar | India-SURF | Research Scientist at Analog Devices | — |
| 2016 | Aakash Patil | India-SURF | Postdoc at Stanford / CEO Nugen | — |
| 2016 | Subham Vidyant | India-SURF | PhD in Physics at Syracuse | — |
| 2015 | Evelyn Chase | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2015 | Jessica Pena | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2015 | Ignacio Magana | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2015 | Ayush Pandey | India-SURF | Assistant Professor (tenure-track), UC Merced | — |
| 2015 | Arjun Iyer | India-SURF | PhD at Rochester | — |
| 2015 | Sai Kanth Dacha | India-SURF | Postdoc at Columbia | T1500228 |
| 2015 | Jared Goldberg | LIGO SURF | — | P1500190 |
| 2014 | Akhil Reddy | India-SURF | Founder & CEO, CamerEye | — |
| 2014 | Reetika Dudi | India-SURF | Postdoc at Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics | — |
| 2014 | Nichin Sreekantaswamy | India-SURF | Hardware System Design Engineer at Apple | — |
| 2013 | Alex Cole | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2013 | Gautam Venugopalan | India-SURF | Postdoc at Stanford | — |
| 2012 | Alexandra Zhdanova | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2012 | Eric Hendries | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2012 | Maria Okounkova | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2012 | Yaakov Fein | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Davison | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2012 | Vidisha Jain | India-SURF | — | — |
| 2011 | Nicole Ing | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2011 | Ishwita Saikia | India-SURF | PhD at Southern Methodist University | — |
| 2011 | Sonali Mohapatra | India-SURF | Quantum Innovation Sector Lead, UK NQCC | — |
| 2010 | Jenna Walrath | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2010 | Razib Obaid | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2010 | Megan Daily | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2010 | Katherine Larson | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2010 | Gopal Nataraj | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2010 | Sharmila Gunasekaran | India-SURF | Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Radboud University | — |
| 2010 | Nancy Aggarwal | India-SURF | Assistant Professor, UC Davis | — |
| 2009 | Chris Zimmerman | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2009 | Connor Mooney | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2009 | Clara Bennett | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2009 | Stephanie Erickson | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2009 | Michelle Stephens | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2009 | Zach Cummings | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2008 | Masha | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2008 | Sharon | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2008 | Max | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2008 | Eric | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2007 | Keenan Pepper | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2007 | Alice Wang | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2007 | Darcy Barron | LIGO SURF | — | T070244 |
| 2007 | Edward MacAulay | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2007 | Josh Weiner | LIGO SURF | — | T070266 |
| 2007 | Elena Gasparri | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2007 | Sonia Buckley | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2006 | Riccardo Ciolfi | LIGO SURF | — | T060246 |
| 2006 | Royal Reinecke | LIGO SURF | — | T060244 |
| 2006 | Darcy Barron | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2006 | David Malling | LIGO SURF | — | T060241 |
| 2006 | Jenne Driggers | LIGO SURF | — | T060240 |
| 2005 | Ryan Kinney | LIGO SURF | — | — |
| 2005 | Marcus Ng | LIGO SURF | — | — |
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