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Ph.D. Astrophysics 1988
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
M. Tech Computer Science 1980
Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
2/02- Professor, Astrophysics, University of Texas, Austin.
8/96-1/02 Visiting Professor, IAS, Princeton.
9/92-7/96 Assistant Professor, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
2/95-6/95 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
9/88-3/89 Visiting scientist, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
4/89-7/92 Scientist I & II at the High Altitude Observatory, Boulder
9/87-8/88 Postdoctoral
fellowship, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder.
NSF Young Investigator Award 1994
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1993
Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, MIT, 1993 (awarded to one person a year in the school of science
Vainu Bappu Memorial Gold Medal of the Indian Astronomical Society, 1992
Copernicus Lectures (May-June 2011) at the University of Ferrara, Italy
University of Texas BoV teaching excellence award 2014-15