Yashwant Gupta

Donnerstag, 01. November 1962

Yashwant Gupta (born 1 November 1962) is an Indian astrophysicist and a professor at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is currently a Distinguished Professor and also the Centre Director at NCRA. Known for his research on pulsars, Gupta is a member of the International Astronomical Union. He is reported to have contributed to the conceptualization and commissioning of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in Pune. He also led the major upgrade of GMRT that was carried out during 2013 to 2019. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and Google Scholar, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 165 of them. He has also delivered several plenary speeches or keynote addresses and the spe