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'''Yashwant Gupta''' (born 1 November 1962) is an Indian astrophysicist and a professor at the [[National Centre for Radio Astrophysics]] of the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=265 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> Known for his research on [[pulsars]], Gupta is a member of the [[International Astronomical Union]] | '''Yashwant Gupta''' (born 1 November 1962) is an Indian astrophysicist and a professor at the [[National Centre for Radio Astrophysics]] of the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=265 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> He is currently a Distinguished Professor and also the Centre Director at NCRA. | ||
Known for his research on [[pulsars]] and the interstellar medium, as well as development of instrumentation for radio astronomy, Gupta is a member of the [[International Astronomical Union]],<ref name="Yashwant Gupta on IAU">{{Cite web |url=https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/8333/ |title=Yashwant Gupta on IAU |date=2017-10-30 |website=International Astronomical Union |access-date=2017-10-30}}</ref> the [[International Union of Radio Science]] (URSI) and also a Senior Member of the [[IEEE]]. He is reported to have contributed to the construction and commissioning of the [[Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope]] (GMRT) in [[Pune]],<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> including the development and enhancements to the digital correlator for the GMRT.<ref name="A real-time software backend of the GMRT">{{Cite web |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-010-9187-0 |title=A real-time software backend for the GMRT |date=2010-06-08 }} </ref> He also led the major upgrade of GMRT that was carried out during 2013 to 2019, which has resulted in the GMRT maintaining its position as one of the leading low frequency radio observatories in the world.<ref name="The upgraded GMRT: opening new windows on the radio Universe">{{Cite web |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26293915#metadata_info_tab_contents |title=The upgraded GMRT: opening new windows on the radio Universe |date=2010-06-08 }} </ref> For this achievement, Gupta and his team were awarded the Zubin Kembhavi Award in 2019<ref name="Zubin Kembhavi for GMRT">{{Cite web |url=https://www.astron-soc.in/asi_zubin_kembhavi_award |title=Zubin Kembhavi Award | date=2019 }} </ref> by the [[Astronomical Society of India]]. | |||
His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yashwant_Gupta2 |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-10-17 |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[Google Scholar]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 165 of them.<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8Jz89RsAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> He has also delivered several plenary speeches or keynote addresses and the speech on ''The upgraded GMRT : Current Status and Future Prospects'' at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in December 2015 was one among them.<ref name="The upgraded GMRT : Current Status and Future Prospects">{{Cite web |url=https://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=95273&date=2015-12-08&tab=all_events |title=The upgraded GMRT : Current Status and Future Prospects |date=2017-10-31 |website=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2017-10-31}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2007.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}} | |||
== Selected bibliography == | == Selected bibliography == | ||