I am a second year graduate student in the Earth and Space Sciences department at UCLA. I study the morphology and dynamics of Binary Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs). My PhD advisor is Jean-Luc Margot.
Before coming to UCLA, I did a M.S. in Telecommunications at University of Maryland. While at Maryland, I worked with Dr. Lucy McFadden on the Dawn mission and with Dr. Rosemary Killen on the Exosphere of Mercury.
My undergraduate degree is in Electronics engineering from Mumbai University in India.
News:
Radar observations of asteroid 2011 CP4 (Feb 21st 2012)
Initial images suggest a size of ~150 m and spin period of ~9 hours if the view is equatoial.
Radar observations of asteroid 2000 ET70 (Feb 12th, 2012)
Initial images suggest a rotation period of ~10 hours and a diameter of ~1.5 km for this NEA. Due to the long damping timescale (~600 My), it is possible that this object could still be in a non-principal axis rotation mode.