UTMOST welcomes Wael Farah and Aditya Parthasarathy

We welcome Wael Farah and Aditya Parthasarathy, both of whom will be starting their PhD work on projects on UTMOST.

Aditya comes to us from India, where he did a Bachelor of Engineering at Anna University in Chennai, and has worked at the Raman Research Institute and also at Swinburne as a visiting scholar in 2015. Aditya is initially developing an active scheduling system for UTMOST. Welcome back Aditya!

Wael has a BSc in physics (Lebanese University) and a MSc in astrophysics (Notre Dame University – Louaize). His masters’ work was on stellar atmospheric  parameter determination (theoretical and observational). Wael will be working initially on excising radio interference from Molonglo data and a live FRB alert system.