Adrita Khan — Academic Experience

Role	Period	Responsibilities
Center for Computational and Data Sciences (CCDS) · ComPAs Wing · Independent University, Bangladesh · My Profile ↗
Full-time Research Assistant	Dec 2024 – Present	Cosmological data analysis and pipeline development for radio astronomical sources. Jet tagging using PCN with interaction features. Scientific code benchmarking and validation, including ML applications in astrophysics.
Research Intern	Feb 2024 – Nov 2024	Assisted with jet tagging research and initial methodology design for ML in particle physics. Developed scripts for preprocessing and feature engineering.
Centre for Astro-Particle Physics (CAPP) · University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Research Collaborator Remote	Apr 2025 – Present	Remote collaboration on astro-particle physics and cosmology research projects. Data analysis and computational modeling for high-energy astrophysics studies. Contributing to international research collaborations and publications.
Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics · University of Toronto
Research Collaborator Remote	Mar 2025 – Present	Developing forecasting pipeline to predict observational signatures of Hu-Sawicki f(R) and DGP modified gravity theories for LSST. Cross-correlation observables combining galaxy clustering and CMB lensing to distinguish modified gravity from ΛCDM via multi-probe analysis. Testing emulators (Baccoemu, e-mantis, nDGP); implementing Fisher forecasting and Bayesian MCMC inference.
Center for Astronomy, Space Science, and Astrophysics (CASSA) · Independent University, Bangladesh
Research Collaborator	Aug 2025 – Apr 2026	Development of astrophysical simulation models. Extension of intern research to observational studies and analytical methods. Collaboration on institutional projects and student mentoring.
Research Intern	Apr 2024 – Aug 2025	Initiated radio astronomy classification projects for galaxy morphologies. Contributed to data curation and preliminary analysis for source identification.
Wi-STEM Bangladesh · Supervisor: Dr. Tonima Tasnim Ananna
Mentee Summer Internship	June – Dec. 2021	Project: Photometric Redshifts using Gaussian Processes — tested machine learning methods for photometric redshift estimation from astronomical survey data. github.com/Adrita-Khan/AstroPhotoZ ↗

Name	Institution	Program / Status	Mentoring Focus
North South University (NSU) · Department of Mathematics and Physics
Graduate Teaching Assistant	North South University	Spring 2025 Jan – Apr	Supported PHY107 & PHY108 (Physics I & II). Mentored students during weekly consultation hours. Graded assignments and quizzes.
Individual Mentees
Subaita Rahman Supti	Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)	ICTP PWF Intern 2025 BSc Physics (current)	Scientific Computing: LaTeX, C/C++ Research Guidance: Cosmology & Particle Physics AI & Data Science: Neural Networks, ML
Naima Alam Zikra	Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)	BSc Physics (current)	Programming & Data Analysis: Python Quantum mechanics (numerical methods) Cosmology: 21 cm line & EoR
Adita Ferdous	BRAC University	BSc Physics (current)	Inflationary Cosmology Introductory Research Skills Programming & cosmological tools
Maisha Rahman	University of Dhaka	BSc Physics (current)	Python & Statistics ML/DL & Object Detection Introductory Astronomy & packages
Saidul Hossain Al-Amin	North South University	Bronze Awardee, IAAC BSc ECE/EEE (current)	Python & Statistics Signal Processing & Radio Astronomy Astronomical core packages
Neyaz Ahmed	Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (BSc) North South University (MSc)	Petroleum Eng. (BSc) Applied Math & Comp. Sci (MSc)	Python, C++, MATLAB, ML Web Dev: HTML, CSS Neural ODE & Traffic Flow Modeling Website · GitHub