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Iniyan Natarajan

SAO Postdoctoal Fellow
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian
Astronomy

Biography

Iniyan Natarajan obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His research interests include theory and algorithms for radio astronomy data processing and Bayesian inference. He has developed techniques for Bayesian calibration of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), he has developed software packages and pipelines for synthetic data generation, data calibration and image feature extraction in addition to analysing EHT data. He is also interested in instrument and atmospheric modelling for next-generation VLBI arrays.

Honorary Affiliate: Stephen Hawking

In Memoriam

Former Honorary Affiliate

Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Physics

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