Driving innovation in radio astronomy

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Radio astronomy — a subfield of astronomy that studies the sky using radio frequencies — is data-intensive. That poses a challenge for radio astronomers: building and then communicating scientific insights requires significant processing and analytical work. Thoughtworks has been working with Dr. Neeraj Gupta from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in India to develop solutions to these challenges, including a data processing pipeline, a collaborative platform for analysis and a digital catalog for publishing and communicating research.

In this episode of the Technology Podcast Dr. Gupta joins Justin Jose of Thoughtworks India's Engineering for Research (E4R) team as they speak to hosts Rebecca Parsons and Prem Chandrasekaran about their work together. Dr. Gupta explains the benefits of Thoughtworks work from an astronomer perspective, while Justin highlights the challenges of building software solutions in a highly specialized domain.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody.
0:09.7	My name is Rebecca Parsons.
0:11.2	I'm one of the co-hosts for the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast, and I'm joined by my colleague Primm.
0:17.8	Hello, everyone.
0:18.8	I'm very glad to be here.
0:20.4	Looking forward to a great conversation
0:21.7	today. And we are joined by two guests. First, I have one of my other colleagues at ThoughtWorks.
0:30.2	Justin, would you please introduce yourself? Hello, everyone. I'm Justin, and I've been, I work with
0:35.5	EFORR, and I work as a lead developer in
0:39.0	EFORA.
0:40.0	And joining us from the project itself, Nairaj, would you like to introduce yourself please?
0:47.7	Hi everyone, I am Nidj Kupta.
0:49.3	I am an astronomer and I work at the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
0:55.0	It's a research institute based in India.
0:58.0	So let's start with introducing the problem.
1:03.0	What is it that we're trying to solve and how have you approached this?
1:09.0	And let's start with what's the science problem that we're trying to solve?
1:16.0	Because the principle of E4R really is to remind people that we are trying to bring,
1:22.0	we as ThoughtWorks are trying to bring our software development capabilities
1:25.9	and our technology capabilities to assist scientists
1:30.0	like Niraaj in solving science problems. So, Niraaj, can tell us a little bit about what the
1:36.1	problem is we're trying to solve. Yeah, sure. So the central problem that we are trying to address
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