Curriculum Vitae

Professor Yogesh Wadadekar

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Name: Yogesh Wadadekar
Address: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Post Bag 3, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
Phone: +91 20 25719238
Email: yogesh@ncra.tifr.res.in

Education

Academic Appointments

  • Jan 2024 – Present: Professor (H), National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India
  • Jan 2018 – Dec 2023: Associate Professor (G), National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India
  • July 2010 – Dec. 2017: Reader (F), National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India
  • Oct. 2007 – June 2010: Fellow (E), National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India
  • July 2006 – Oct. 2007: Astronomical Software Scientist, SDSS, Princeton University, USA
  • 2003 – 2006: Postdoctoral Researcher, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA
  • 2001 – 2002: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France

Research Interests

  • Galaxy bulge evolution
  • Large area sky surveys
  • Starforming galaxies
  • Radio emission from AGN
  • Software development
  • Machine learning techniques in astronomy

Awards

  • 2000: Best PhD thesis award, Indian Physics Association
  • 1988-1996: National Talent Search Scholarship
  • 1988: National Merit Scholarship

Grants and Funding

  • 2023-26: DAE-STFC Technology and Skills program- Building Indo-UK Collaboration towards the Square Kilometer Array, PI: Wadadekar
  • 2011-15: Indo-French Centre (CEFIPRA) funded project, PI: Wadadekar
  • 2006-07: Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 15 AR Grant, PI: Wadadekar
  • 2005-06: US NVO Research Initiatives, PI: Wadadekar

Personal Information

  • Citizenship: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married, two children

Publications

As of 10 February 2025: Citations = 8641, h-index = 24.

Submitted Papers

  1. Jain, R. & Wadadekar, Y. 2025, A&A (submitted) A grand-design spiral galaxy 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang
  2. Kavin Kumar, N.R. & Wadadekar Y., 2025, JoAA (submitted) Local kinematic outlier MaNGA DR17 galaxies on the SFR-Stellar mass diagram

Refereed Publications

  1. Sule, A., Mohan Ramanujam, N., Maji, M., et al.\ 2025, arXiv:2501.06538. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2501.06538 – Astronomy and Society: The Road Ahead
  2. Sharma, P., Vaidya, B., Wadadekar, Y., et al.\ 2025, arXiv:2501.03876. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2501.03876 – Computational Astrophysics, Data Science & AI/ML in Astronomy: A Perspective from Indian Community
  3. Watts, C., Barway, S., Bait, O., Wadadekar Y., 2024, A&A, 691, L13. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202452002 – A Tale of NGC 3785: The formation of an ultra-diffuse galaxy at the end of the longest tidal tail
  4. Biswas, P. & Wadadekar, Y. 2024, ApJ, 970, 83. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad4ee3 – Structure and Kinematics of Star-forming Elliptical Galaxies in SDSS-MaNGA
  5. Gupta Y., Bhattacharya D., Choudhury T. R., Wadadekar Y., Prabu T., 2023a, JApA, 44, 27 – India and the SKA: An overview
  6. Gupta Y., Mohile V., Kodilkar J., Uprade R., Wadadekar Y., Chaudhuri S. R., 2023b, JApA, 44, 21 – Telescope Manager for the SKA
  7. Aafreen R., Abhishek R., Ajithkumar B., Vaidyanathan A.M., Barve I.V., Bhattramakki S., Bhat S., et al., 2023, JApA, 44, 11 – High-performance computing for SKA transient search: Use of FPGA-based accelerators
  8. Wadadekar Y., Bhattacharya D., Datta A., Paul S., Oberoi D., 2023, JApA, 44, 9 – Plans for building a prototype SKA regional centre in India
  9. Dutta S., Singh V., Chandra C. H. I., Wadadekar Y., Kayal A., Heywood I., 2023, ApJ, 944, 176 – Search and Characterization of Remnant Radio Galaxies in the XMM-LSS Deep Field
  10. Dutta S., Singh V., Chandra C. H. I., Wadadekar Y., Kayal A., 2022, JApA, 43, 96 – Characteristics of remnant radio galaxies detected in deep radio continuum observations from SKA pathfinders
  11. Kayal A., Singh V., Chandra C. H. I., Wadadekar Y., Dutta S., 2022, JApA, 43, 84 – Detection of radio-AGN in dust-obscured galaxies using deep uGMRT radio continuum observations
  12. Rathore H., Kumar K., Mishra P. K., Wadadekar Y., Bait O., 2022, MNRAS, 513, 389 – Star-forming S0 Galaxies in SDSS-MaNGA: fading spirals or rejuvenated S0s?
  13. Samudre A., George L. T., Bansal M., Wadadekar Y., 2022, MNRAS, 509, 2269 – Data-efficient classification of radio galaxies
  14. Taylor, R., Porto, F., Cui, C., Wadadekar Y., Malkov, O., 2021, Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 93 (Suppl 1), doi:10.1590/0001-3765202120201027 – Big Data Research Infrastructure Collaboration Toward the SKA (BRICSKA)
  15. Singh V., Dutta S., Wadadekar Y., Ishwara-Chandra C. H., 2021, Galax, 9, 121 – Remnant Radio Galaxy Candidates of Small Angular Sizes
  16. George L. T., Kale R., Wadadekar Y., 2021b, MNRAS, 507, 4487 – Imaging results from the legacy Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope Galaxy Cluster Key Project
  17. Grover H., Bait O., Wadadekar Y., Mishra P. K., 2021, MNRAS, 506, 3313 – Predicting bulge to total luminosity ratio of galaxies using deep learning
  18. Jurlin N., Brienza M., Morganti R., Wadadekar Y., Ishwara-Chandra C. H., Maddox N., Mahatma V., 2021, A&A, 653, A110 – Multi-frequency characterisation of remnant radio galaxies in the Lockman Hole field
  19. George L. T., Kale R., Wadadekar Y., 2021a, ExA, 51, 235 – An upper limit calculator (UL-CALC) for undetected extended sources with radio interferometers: radio halo upper limits
  20. Panwar M., Prabhakar, Sandhu P.K., Wadadekar Y., Jain P., 2020, MNRAS, 499, 1226 – Alignment of radio galaxy axes using FIRST catalogue
  21. Mazumder A., Chakraborty A., Datta A., Choudhuri S., Roy N., Wadadekar Y., Ishwara-Chandra C.H., 2020, MNRAS, 495, 4071 – Characterizing EoR foregrounds: a study of the Lockman Hole region at 325 MHz
  22. Surana S., Wadadekar Y., Bait O., Bhosale H., 2020, MNRAS, 493, 4808 – Predicting star formation properties of galaxies using deep learning
  23. Bait O., Kurapati S., Duc P.-A., Cuillandre J.-C., Wadadekar Y., Kamphuis P., Barway S., 2020, MNRAS, 492, 1 – Discovery of a large HI ring around the quiescent galaxy AGC 203001
  24. Mishra P. K., Wadadekar Y., Barway S., 2019, MNRAS, 487, 5572 – Connecting galaxy structure and star formation: the role of environment in formation of S0 galaxies
  25. Nandi, S., Saikia D. J., Roy R., Dabhade P., Wadadekar Y., Larsson J., Baes M., et al., 2019, MNRAS, 486, 5158 – A low-frequency study of recently identified double-double radio galaxies
  26. Bait O., Wadadekar Y., Barway S., 2019, MNRAS, 485, 428 – Outlying Hα emitters in SDSS IV MaNGA
  27. Bridger A., Gupta Y., Chaudhuri S. R., Di Carlo M., Le Roux G., Natarajan S., Smareglia R., et al., 2018, SPIE, 10707, 1070703 – SKA telescope manager: a status update
  28. Mishra P. K., Wadadekar Y., Barway S., 2018, MNRAS, 478, 351 – Why are classical bulges more common in S0 galaxies than in spiral galaxies?
  29. Narayanan A., Savage B.D., Mishra P.K., Wakker B.P., Khaire V., Wadadekar Y., 2018, MNRAS, 475, 3529 – Detection of low-metallicity warm plasma in a galaxy overdensity environment at z ∼ 0.2
  30. Sebastian, B., Ishwara-Chandra C.H., Joshi, R. & Wadadekar Y., 2018, MNRAS, 473, 4926 – Discovery of a new, 2.2 Mpc Giant Radio Galaxy at a redshift of 0.56
  31. Mishra, P.K., Barway, S. & Wadadekar Y., 2017, MNRAS Letters, 472, 89 – Age bimodality in the central region of pseudobulges in S0 galaxies
  32. Bait, O., Barway, S., & Wadadekar, Y., 2017, MNRAS, 471, 2687 – On the interdependence of galaxy morphology, star formation, and environment in massive galaxies in the nearby Universe
  33. Singh V., Wadadekar, Y. et al., 2017, MNRAS, 470, 4956 – On the nature of infrared-faint radio sources in the SXDF and VLA-VVDS fields
  34. Mishra P.K., Wadadekar, Y and Barway S., 2017, MNRAS, 467, 2384 – Pseudo bulges in galaxy groups: the role of environment in secular evolution
  35. Pol, N., & Wadadekar, Y., 2017, MNRAS, 465, 95 – A composite Seyfert 1 spectrum from the Sloan digital sky survey
  36. Kharb, P. et al., 2017, Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics – From nearby low luminosity AGN to high redshift radio galaxies: science interests with SKA
  37. Singh, V., Ishwara-Chandra, C.H., Sievers, J., Wadadekar Y. et al., 2015b, MNRAS, 454, 1556 – Discovery of rare double-lobe radio galaxies hosted in spiral galaxies
  38. Tamhane, P., Wadadekar Y., Basu, A., et al., 2015, MNRAS, 453, 2438 – J021659-044920: a relic giant radio galaxy at z ˜ 1.3
  39. Basu, A., Wadadekar Y., Beelen, A., et al., 2015, ApJ, 803, 51 – Radio-Far-infrared Correlation in “Blue Cloud” Galaxies with 0 < z < 1.2
  40. Singh, V., Ishwara-Chandra, C. H., Wadadekar Y., Beelen, A., & Kharb, P. 2015a, MNRAS, 446, 599 – Kiloparsec-scale radio emission in Seyfert and LINER galaxies
  41. Singh, V., Beelen, A., Wadadekar Y., et al. 2014, A&A, 569, A52 – Multiwavelength characterization of faint ultra steep spectrum radio sources: A search for high-redshift radio galaxies
  42. Barway, S., Wadadekar Y., Vaghmare, K., & Kembhavi, A. K. 2013, MNRAS, 432, 430 – Luminosity-dependent star formation history of S0 galaxies: evidence from GALEX-SDSS-2MASS-WISE colours
  43. Basu, A., Mitra, D., Wadadekar Y., & Ishwara-Chandra, C. H. 2012, MNRAS, 419, 1136 – GMRT 333-MHz observations of six nearby normal galaxies
  44. Abraham, S., Philip, N. S., Kembhavi, A., Wadadekar Y. G., & Sinha, R. 2012, MNRAS, 419, 80 – A photometric catalogue of quasars and other point sources in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  45. Ishwara-Chandra, C. H., Sirothia, S. K., Wadadekar Y., & Pal, S. 2011, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 32, 609 – High-Redshift Radio Galaxies from Deep Fields
  46. Drake, A. J., Djorgovski, S. G., Mahabal, A., et al. 2011, ApJ, 735, 106 – The Discovery and Nature of the Optical Transient CSS100217:102913+404220
  47. Barway, S., Wadadekar Y., & Kembhavi, A. K. 2011, MNRAS, 410, L18 – Bar fraction in lenticular galaxies: dependence on luminosity and environment
  48. Vikram, V., Wadadekar Y., Kembhavi, A. K., & Vijayagovindan, G. V. 2010, MNRAS, 409, 1379 – PYMORPH: automated galaxy structural parameter estimation using PYTHON
  49. Gupta, N., Srianand, R., Bowen, D. V., York, D. G., & Wadadekar Y. 2010, MNRAS, 408, 849 – GMRT mini-survey to search for 21-cm absorption in quasar-galaxy pairs at z ~ 0.1
  50. Ishwara-Chandra, C. H., Sirothia, S. K., Wadadekar Y., Pal, S., & Windhorst, R. 2010, MNRAS, 405, 436 – Deep GMRT 150-MHz observations of the LBDS-Lynx region: ultrasteep spectrum radio sources
  51. Vikram, V., Wadadekar Y., Kembhavi, A. K., & Vijayagovindan, G. V. 2010, MNRAS, 401, L39 – Quantitative measure of evolution of bright cluster galaxies at moderate redshifts
  52. Abazajian, K. N., Adelman-McCarthy, J. K. et al. 2009, ApJS, 182, 543 – The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  53. Yanny, B., Rockosi, C., Newberg, H. J., et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 4377 – SEGUE: A Spectroscopic Survey of 240,000 Stars with g = 14-20
  54. Barway, S., Wadadekar Y., Kembhavi, A.K., & Mayya, Y.D. 2009, MNRAS, 394, 1991 – Near-infrared bulge-disc correlations of lenticular galaxies
  55. Rawat, A., Wadadekar Y., & De Mello, D. 2009, ApJ, 695, 1315 – Rest-Frame UV Versus Optical Morphologies of Galaxies Using Sérsic Profile Fitting: The Importance of Morphological K-Correction
  56. Adelman-McCarthy, J. K., Agueros, M. A., et al. 2008, ApJS, 175, 297 – The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  57. Barway, S., Kembhavi, A., Wadadekar Y., Ravikumar, C. D., & Mayya, Y. D. 2007, ApJ Lett, 661, L37 – Lenticular Galaxy Formation: Possible Luminosity Dependence
  58. Wadadekar Y., Casertano, S., & de Mello, D. 2006, AJ, 132, 1023 – Faint U-Band Dropouts in the WFPC2 Parallels of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
  59. Wadadekar Y., Casertano, S., Hook, R., et al. 2006, PASP, 118, 450 – The WFPC2 Archival Pure Parallels Project
  60. de Mello, D. F., Wadadekar Y., Dahlen, T., Casertano, S., & Gardner, J. P. 2006, AJ, 131, 216 – Star-forming Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts: Morphology, Ages, and Sizes
  61. Blaizot, J., Wadadekar Y., Guiderdoni, B., et al. 2005, MNRAS, 360, 159 – MoMaF: the Mock Map Facility
  62. Wadadekar Y. 2005, PASP, 117, 79 – Estimating Photometric Redshifts Using Support Vector Machines
  63. Wadadekar Y. 2004, A&A, 416, 35 – Radio emission from AGN detected by the VLA FIRST survey
  64. Philip, N. S., Wadadekar Y., Kembhavi, A., & Joseph, K. B. 2002, A&A, 385, 1119 – A difference boosting neural network for automated star-galaxy classification
  65. Khosroshahi, H. G., Wadadekar Y., & Kembhavi, A. 2000, ApJ, 533, 162 – Correlations among Global Photometric Properties of Disk Galaxies
  66. Khosroshahi, H. G., Wadadekar Y., Kembhavi, A., & Mobasher, B. 2000, ApJL, 531, L103 – A Near-Infrared Photometric Plane for Elliptical Galaxies and Bulges of Spiral Galaxies
  67. Wadadekar Y., & Kembhavi, A. 1999, AJ, 118, 1435 – A Study of Quasar Radio Emission from the VLA FIRST Survey
  68. Wadadekar Y., Robbason, B., & Kembhavi, A. 1999, AJ, 117, 1219 – Two-dimensional Galaxy Image Decomposition

Non-Refereed Publications

  1. Dutta, S., Singh, V., Ishwara-Chandra, C. H., et al. 2024, IAU General Assembly, 1144 – Spectral Ages of Remnant Radio Galaxies with MIGHTEE and SuperMIGHTEE Radio Surveys in the XMM-LSS Field
  2. Salgado, J., Kitaeff, S., Bolton, R., et al. 2024, Astromical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXXI, 535, 399 – Designing the SKA Regional Centre Network
  3. Wadadekar, Y., Tendulkar, S., Mitra, S., et al. 2024, arXiv:2402.14841. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2402.14841 – Large Projects in Astronomy: An Indian Endeavour
  4. Kayal, A., Singh, V., Dutta, S., et al. 2024, 42nd meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI), 42, O77 – Unveiling a new population of obscured Active Galactic Nuclei in deep field surveys
  5. Mahabal, A., Sharma, P., Adhikari, R., et al. 2024, arXiv:2401.04623. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2401.04623 – AstroInformatics: Recommendations for Global Cooperation
  6. Waller W. H., et al., 2020, IAUGA. doi:10.1017/S1743921319005283 – FM14 Session 2: Communicating Astronomy in our Changing World
  7. Surana S., Wadadekar Y., Oberoi D., 2020, ASPC, 527, 205 – Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery
  8. Bait O., Wadadekar Y., Barway S., 2019, IAUS, 344, 265 – Outlying Hα blobs in SDSS IV MaNGA
  9. Deshpande S., Wadadekar Y., Intema H., Ratnakumar B., George L., Desai R., Sakhadeo A., et al., 2019, ASPC, 523, 167 – GMRT Archive Processing Project
  10. Bridger A. et al., 2018, SPIE, 10707, 1070703
  11. Wadadekar Y., Valame S., Chengalur J., Ratnakumar B., Kshirsagar A., Das S., 2018, pstw.conf, 9. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1292809 – GMRT Proposal Tools
  12. Wadadekar, Y., Sirothia, S., Ishwara-Chandra, C. H., et al. 2014, Astronomical Society of India Conference Series, 13, 243 – Probing obscured, high redshift galaxies using deep P-band continuum imaging with GMRT
  13. Singh, V., Beelen, A., Wadadekar, Y., et al. 2014, Astronomical Society of India Conference Series, 13, 249 – Unveiling the population of high-redshift radio galaxies using centimeter GMRT survey
  14. Barway, S., Wadadekar, Y., Vaghmare, K., & Kembhavi, A. 2013, Proc. of the IAU: Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies, 292, 153 – Clues from star-formation histories - does the formation scenario of S0 galaxies depend on their luminosities?
  15. Ishwara-Chandra, C. H., Sirothia, S. K., Wadadekar Y., Pal, S., & Windhorst, R. 2010, ISKAF2010 Science Meeting, 69 – Deep GMRT 150 MHz observations of LBDS
  16. Gharote, M. S., Deshpande, A. M., Lodha, S. P., et al. 2009, The Low-Frequency Radio Universe, 407, 438 – Automated Telescope Scheduling
  17. Ishwara-Chandra, C. H., Sirothia, S. K., Pal, S., & Wadadekar Y. 2009, The Low-Frequency Radio Universe, 407, 43 – A Program to Search for Ultra-Steep Spectrum Radio Sources with GMRT
  18. Rawat, A., Wadadekar Y., & de Mello, D. 2009, Proc. of the IAU: The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context, 254, 57 – Rest frame UV vs. optical morphologies of galaxies: Important implications to high-z results
  19. Wadadekar, Y., Casertano, S., Ferguson, H. C., & Fruchter, A. S. 2005, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 37, 142.06 – Cosmic shear on small angular scales from the WFPC2 Archival Parallels
  20. Wadadekar, Y., & Casertano, S. 2005, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 37, 10.05 – Faint U-band dropouts in the GOODS-CDFS field
  21. de Mello, D., Wadadekar, Y., Casertano, S., & Gardner, J. P. 2004, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, 94.09 – The deepest Near-Ultraviolet images taken with HST
  22. Philip, N. S., Wadadekar, Y., Kembhavi, A., & Joseph, K. B. 2003, Statistical Challenges in Astronomy, 469 – A new tool for automated classification of astronomical images
  23. Philip, N. S., Joseph, K. B., Kembhavi, A., & Wadadekar, Y. 2002, Automated Data Analysis in Astronomy, 125 – Bayesian Approach for Star-Galaxy Classification
  24. Kembhavi, A., Wadadekar, Y., & Khosroshahi, H. 2000, Constructing the Universe with Clusters of Galaxies, IAP 2000 Meeting – The Near-Infrared Photometric Plane of Galaxies

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