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Bonjour, I'm Rishav Pandey.

I'm a physicist and engineer,
currently enrolled as a graduate student (M.Tech.)
@ the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.

Area of interest:
• High Energy Physics
• Nuclear Physics
• Quantum Computing
• Microelectronics
• Digital Electronics

About Me

Hi, welcome to my humble website, and thanks for checking this. I'm a 24-year-old Citizen Scientist looking forward to joining a Research Organization as a Scientist/Engineer :)

Currently, I'm a Graduate Student at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, studying Construction Technology and Management (which includes master's level courses in Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Civil Engineering). I've been sponsored by Larsen & Toubro Limited for a 2-year, full-time M.Tech. program in Construction Technology and Management through the L&T Build India Scholarship Scheme. I earned my bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering with a CGPA of 8.48/10 (Rank: 2nd/92) from Jabalpur Engineering College, India.

Previously, I worked as a Senior Engineer at Larsen & Toubro Limited, India, where I have undertaken both planning and execution tasks related to railway construction. Following my graduation, I'd the opportunity to work at the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, under the supervision of Dr. Igor Denisenko. I worked on a project titled 'Detector and physics simulation using heavy ion collisions at NICA-SPD'. Additionally, I served as an international participant at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in JINR Dubna, working on a project related to the production and spectroscopic investigation of Hg and Rn isotopes using a mass separator facility named MASHA, under the guidance of Mr. Viacheslav Vedeneev.

As part of a research program, I was invited for a 6-month Research Internship at the CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, India, where I worked on a project called 'Detection of CO2 Gas Using Non-Dispersive Infrared Gas Sensors', under the supervision of Dr. Vijay Chatterjee. I also interned at The Sparks Foundation, Singapore, where I completed projects related to web development and app development. I love devoting time for my academic growth, including delivering talks at international conferences and presenting posters in workshops. I frequently participate in International Asteroid Search Campaigns, analyzing image sets from the 1.8 m Pan-STARRS telescope. So far, I've made one preliminary asteroid discovery, confirmed by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration, with its provisional status pending. This summarizes my technical experience thus far. In the non-technical domain, I have interned with the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and as a Pre-Sales intern for WhiteHat Jr. I am a strong team leader, and my ideal work environment includes both collaborating with a team and working independently on projects. I have excellent oral and written communication skills and am a native Hindi speaker with C2 proficiency in English.

I'm enthusiastic about various high-energy and nuclear experiments conducted at CERN, JINR, FAIR, KEK, BNL, and many other particle physics laboratories worldwide. I regularly seek to learn more from my seniors and scientific supervisors about their ongoing projects and research work. I have a keen interest in High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Quantum Computing, Microelectronics, and Digital Electronics, and I'm always eager to deepen my knowledge in these areas. Due to my strong passion for Particle Physics, I'm helping ATLAS scientists in their discovery of massive long-lived particles by classifying real events and data collected by the ATLAS Detector during LHC Run II.

You can reach me using the contacts below, although I’m more likely to be found playing with the dogs somewhere near the IIT Delhi Central Library, in Delhi, India.

Research Papers

A list of my research articles can be found in an online database of NASA ADS.

Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships

1. Larsen & Toubro Build India Scholarship 2024
I have been sponsored by Larsen & Toubro Limited for a 2-year, full time M.Tech. program in Construction Technology and Management through the L&T Build India Scholarship Scheme. I secured All India Rank 3 (under Electrical Engineering Discipline) in the L&T Build India Scholarship 2024 exam. I received a 100% scholarship for the master's program at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.
Funding Type: Scholarship
Total Funding Amount: INR 713,750

2. Jefferson Science Associates Student Travel Grant-2024
I was awarded a Student Travel Grant by Jefferson Science Associates (Jefferson Lab, USA) to attend and present a scientific poster at the 2024 International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators (AccelApp'24 Conference) held in Norfolk, USA. Unfortunately, I had to withdraw my participation due to personal reasons.
Funding Type: Grant
Total Funding Amount: USD 1,250

3. Association of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS-2023) Student Travel Grant
I was awarded an International Travel Grant by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research to attend and present my research at the XXVII International Scientific Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS-2023) held in Dubna, Russia, from Oct 29 - Nov 03, 2023.
Funding Type: Grant
Total Funding Amount: ~ RUB 100,000

4. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (START Fellowship-2022)
Received a fully funded START Fellowship from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, in 2022 to work on an advanced research project at the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems in JINR for 8 weeks.
Funding Type: Fellowship
Total Funding Amount: ~ RUB 352,687

Experience

Jan’22 - Present

Zooniverse

Citizen Scientist

Working as a Citizen Scientist in a project ‘New Particle Search at CERN’. Analysing real events and data collected by ATLAS Detector during LHC Run II, using HYPATIA event display.
• Identifying Displaced Vertices of particle tracks.
• Identifying signatures of known particles (electron, muon, photon, conv. photon).
• Searching for Higgs boson decays to a pair of photons.
• Looking for massive long-lived particles decaying far from the beam collision point.
• Interested in those events which has a displaced vertex (of high MDV) in uninstrumented region with at least a muon track of high transverse momentum originating from it.
Certificate🔗

Aug'24 - Aug'24

International Astronomical Search Collaboration

Citizen Scientist

Worked as a Citizen Scientist for the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) in their International Asteroid Search Campaign for 4 weeks. The aim was to search for unknown Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) and Main Belt Asteroids.
• Analyzed real image sets from the 1.8 m Pan-STARRS Telescopes (PS1 & PS2) in Hawaii using Astrometrica software.
• Measured parameters of unknown objects, including Point Spread Function (PSF) Fit, Magnitude (R), Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Right Ascension (RA), and Declination (De), to identify them.
• Created MPC reports for each image set and submitted them to the Minor Planet Center for review.
• Made three preliminary asteroid discoveries, confirmed by IASC, with provisional status awaited.
• Made one additional preliminary asteroid discovery during the All India Asteroid Search Campaign held in Jun'24.
Certificate 1🔗
Certificate 2🔗

Oct’22-Jul'24

Larsen & Toubro Limited, Faridabad, India

Senior Engineer

Worked at EPC-06 project (Railway Electrification of the North-Western Railways, TKM: 1171 KM) and EDFC CP-303 project (Design and Construction of Civil, Structures, and Track Works of Khurja-Pilkhani Section, RKM: 222 KM) as a Senior Engineer (Planning & Execution).

In EDFC CP-303 Project:
• Prepared detailed Daily Progress Reports to track and document ongoing site activities and accomplishments.
• Compiled and presented comprehensive Monthly Progress Reports, highlighting key issues, delay events, and overall progress to the Engineer and Employer.
• Created and delivered presentations for client meetings to effectively communicate project status, milestones achieved, and upcoming plans.
• Regularly drafted official letters to the project engineer and employer to address issues, provide updates, and respond to queries.
• Coordinated with various departments to ensure timely and accurate responses to letters from the PMC.
• Collaborated with the buildings planning team to provide detailed information on issues and delay events that impacted the project timeline and contributed to the preparation of EOT claims.
• Prepared and updated a three-month rolling plan each month to outline pending tasks and ensure effective scheduling of activities.
• Coordinated with planning and execution departments to prepare and update one-month block requirement plans, ensuring all necessary activities were scheduled.

In EPC-06 Project:
• Executed Over Head Equipment (OHE), Signaling & Telecommunication (S&T), and Power System Installation (PSI) works at different site locations along 1000+ Track KM.
• Designed Layout Plans of two-road stations.
• Prepared Cable Termination Rack details and Fuse details for multiple stations.
• Designed Cable Route Plans, Cable Core Plans, and performed bell testing for indoor and outdoor circuits.
• Learnt about Civil & Track (P-Way) works, and track machines required for execution of works on tracks.

Aug’22 - Oct'22

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

Summer Student

Worked as a Summer Student at JINR, Dubna, under the guidance of Dr. Igor Denisenko on project ‘Detector and physics simulation using heavy ion collisions at NICA-SPD’.
• The goal of the work was to check the feasibility of hadron formation effects during heavy ion collisions at the first stage of SPD operation using Monte Carlo simulations.
• Used SMASH event generator for 12C - 12C, and 40Ca - 40Ca collisions at √𝑠=11 AGeV and obtained generator level plots for charged track multiplicities and kinematic distributions for charged pions, kaons, and protons.
• Used Geant4 to perform detector simulation and SPDRoot framework was used for event reconstruction. At reconstruction stage, particle identification was done using ionization losses and time-of-flight measurements.
• Performed physical analysis using C++ codes and ROOT library based on SPDRoot output and obtained detector level plots for multiplicity and momentum spectra of reconstructed charged particles identified as π±/K±/p± separately for dE/dx and TOF.
• The combined performance of tracking systems was >90% and >80% for pion and proton spectra respectively.
Research Paper🔗
Research Poster🔗
Certificate🔗

Feb’22 - March'22

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

Research Intern

Worked as a Research Intern at JINR, Dubna, under the guidance of Mr. Viacheslav Vedeneev on project ‘Production and spectroscopic investigation of new neutron-rich isotopes near the neutron N=126 shell closure using the multinucleon transfer reactions.’
• Performed the analysis of α- and β-decaying nuclei near the N=126 shell closure at the focal plane of the position sensitive Si detector (TIMEPIX) of the mass-separator MASHA.
• Used table of nuclides for spectroscopic investigation of super-heavy nuclei to identify their masses, decay schemes, energy of α- decay, and half-life. Also, used OriginLab for graphical analysis of plots.
Research Paper🔗
Certificate🔗

• As part of bachelor's thesis, worked as a Research Intern at CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, under the guidance of Dr. Vijay Chatterjee, Sr. Scientist, CSIR-CEERI, in the field of Smart Sensors.
• Worked on project ‘Detection of CO2 gas using NDIR Gas Sensor’. Used LiTaO3 as pyroelectric detector for detection of IR radiation. Also, used OriginLab for graphical analysis of plots.

Internship Report🔗
Presentation🔗
Certificate🔗

July'21

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, B'luru, India

Summer School Student

Completed a Summer School Programme at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru where I broadened my knowledge in various fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Learnt the basics of Astronomical Photometry, Astronomical Instrumentation, General Relativity, Cosmology, and Solar Physics. Even learnt about Stars, Galaxies, Interstellar Medium, Intergalactic Medium, and how astronomers detect exoplanets using radial velocity method and Transit Technique.

Also, used data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Galaxy Zoo to obtain the images of different galaxies like clockwise/anticlockwise spirals, edge-on, face-on, ellipticals, mergers etc.
Certificate🔗

01 May'21 - 31 May'21

The Sparks Foundation, Singapore

Web & App Development Intern

Worked as a Web & App Development Intern at The Sparks Foundation’s Graduate Rotational Internship Programme. Completed 3 projects related to app development and web development:

1. Designed an android app named 'Euro 2 INR Converter' which converts a given amount in Euro into INR. Used JAVA codes on Android Studio and integrated Google and Facebook Signin in it, so that a user can sign in by any of the two ways. Once the user is signed in, their name, email, and profile picture is displayed on the next screen. User can further continue to the next interface i.e. 'Euro 2 INR Converter' page.
GitHub Repo🔗
Presentation🔗

2. Learnt about all the services offered by an extremely secure cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) and implemented practically by launching an AWS EC2 Instance. I even used other services of AWS like storage services (AWS S3) and security services (IAM). After launching the instance I secure shelled into the same and further hosted a website named 'Saving Paws' on that virtual server.
GitHub Repo🔗
Presentation🔗

3. Designed an animal donation website named 'Saving Paws' and then integrated a payment gateway page in it. There is a donate button on home page, just by tapping the same user is directed to the payment page. Once the payment is done, an invoice is generated and email is sent to the user for the payment received. The invoice contains the amount.
GitHub Repo🔗
Presentation🔗

Internship Report🔗
Certificate🔗

June'19 - July'19

Central Coalfields Limited, Ranchi, India

Vocational Trainee

Underwent 30 days vocational training course at Electronics & Telecommunication department in CCL Ranchi. Have been taught about the role of electronics and communication in CCL and also different types of electronic devices used there. Apart from these also learnt about daily responsibilities and tasks carried by E&T department (such as to handle the alerts shown by Coal carrying tippers, Vehicle tracking using GPS, use of RFID, Cameras, walkie talkie, working of weighbridge, OSI Model, etc).
Certificate🔗

May'19

West Central Railway, Jabalpur, India

Vocational Trainee

Completed 15 days vocational training at Jabalpur division of West Central Railway in Control Communication, Rail net, and Exchange.
Certificate🔗

Education

Jul'24 - Jun'26

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India

Master of Technology - Construction Technology and Management (Physics + Electrical Engineering + Civil Engineering)

I have been sponsored by Larsen & Toubro Limited for a 2-year, full time M.Tech. program in Construction Technology and Management through the L&T Build India Scholarship Scheme.

First Semester Courses:
1. Quantum Mechanics 1
2. Power Electronic Converters
3. Computational Laboratory
4. Quantitative Methods in Construction Management
5. Construction Project Management

Jul'18 - Jun'22

Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur, India

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

I earned my bachelor's degree from one of the most reputed colleges in India, Jabalpur Engineering College, in the field of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering. Key subjects covered include Computer Programming with C/C++, Data Structures & Algorithms, Engineering Mathematics & its Applications, Electronic Devices & Circuits, Network Analysis, Signals & Systems*, Communication Systems*, Digital Electronics*, Analog Electronics*, Signal Processing, Microprocessors & Microcontrollers, Transmission Lines and Antennas, Electromagnetic Field Theory, and Nanoelectronics (*Outstanding Performance). Additionally, I studied AWS, and the basics of High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics outside of my bachelor's curriculum. I secured 2nd rank out of 92 students in my department at the end of my studies.

Bachelor's Thesis 1 (from July’21 to Dec'21, completed outside of home institution in CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani) - Detection of CO2 gas using NDIR gas sensor. [Supervisor- Dr. Vijay Chatterjee, Sr. Scientist, CSIR-CEERI]
Bachelor's Thesis 2 (from Jan’22 to Jun'22, completed at home institution) - Designing of microstrip patch antenna at 2.4 GHz resonant frequency. [Supervisor- Prof. Garima Tiwari, Asst. Professor, Jabalpur Engineering College]
Bachelor's Degree🔗
Rank Certificate🔗

Jun'04 - Mar'17

Surendranath Centenary School, Ranchi, India

School Student

Did my schooling from one of the best school of Ranchi. Major achievements during school days include 1st prize in Science Exhibition 2015 & Social Science Exhibition 2016. Also secured 10 CGPA in 10th standard and 91.6% in 12th.
Marksheet🔗
Certificate🔗

Non-Technical Remote Internships/Volunteerships

Sept'21 - Nov'21

WhiteHat Jr.

Remote Intern

Worked as a Pre-Sales Remote Intern in the User Engagement department of WhiteHat Jr for 10 weeks. Learnt User Engagement process and was responsible to aid the User Engagement in the company. My responsibility was to call potential customers and to book slots of Maths and Coding free trial classes using the ops panel. Also carried out product demonstrations and convinced the customers to opt for aforementioned subjects provided by WhiteHat Jr.
Certificate🔗

Nov'20 - Feb'21

Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment

Remote Intern

Worked as a Social Media Intern under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, for Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan a.k.a., Drug Free India Campaign. Was supposed to engage with a minimum of 25-30 individuals daily about the campaign on each of the three platforms – Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Also, worked as a volunteer for state ‘Jharkhand’. Motivated the people contacted to further reach out to more people talking about the ways to create awareness to stop the abuse of drugs and to establish a Drug Free India.

Also, delivered a presentation on 'Prevalence of Drug Abuse in Bihar' which can be found here 👉 Presentation🔗
Certificate🔗

Recommendation Letters

1. Letter from Dr. Igor Denisenko, Head of Sector, SPD Physics Coordinator, DNLP, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
2. Letter from Mr. Viacheslav Vedeneev, Junior Research Scientist, FLNR, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
3. Letter from Dr. Mihai Dima, Principal Investigator, Dept. Computational Physics, Institute for Nuclear Physics and Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
4. Letter from Dr. Vijay Chatterjee, Senior Scientist, CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India.
5. Letter from Prof. Garima Tiwari, Dept. Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering, Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur, India.
6. Letter from Mr. Pranav Dubey, Managing Director, The Sparks Foundation, Singapore.

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I'm passionate about unraveling the mysteries of the universe through High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics while exploring the frontiers of Quantum Computing and Microelectronics. My journey in Digital Electronics fuels my drive to innovate and engineer solutions that can redefine technology. Let's connect and collaborate on research that pushes the boundaries of physics and electronics, turning groundbreaking ideas into reality.

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