​Indrayani Thakare
MS in Environmental Science, Class of 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology

We are excited to introduce our other GradSWE Game Night winner, Indrayani Thakare!

Indrayani’s research is on Induction-Surface-Heating Membrane Distillation for water desalination. She is studying a sustainable approach of water desalination (converting seawater to fresh water) to combat the water-energy stress across the globe, using the membrane distillation technique. The research outcomes will not only tackle the challenges in the energy saving and heat loss during membrane desalination, but also pave the way toward high efficiency water production to help solve the water crisis.

Indrayani aims to be an Environmental Specialist designing sustainable solutions for a greener planet and be a United Nations Representative to promote environmental policies for equal natural resources for all living beings.

Indrayani loves to bike and go hiking. She is an avid reader and loves to meet new people and learn their stories.
Fun fact: She can do a handstand and speak Sanskrit!

​Anushreya Ghosh
PhD in Electrical Engineering expected 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology

We are excited to introduce our GradSWE Game Night winner, Anushreya Ghosh! Anushreya has been involved with GradSWE at the New Jersey Institute of Technology since 2019, where she is also actively involved in leadership. She is also a part of our GradSWE mentoring program.

Anushreya has won several awards including the Provost Doctoral Assistantship from the NJIT Office of the Provost and Senior Executive Vice President (2019-2021) and the Highlander International Graduate Student Scholarship at NJIT (2017).

Anushreya’s research topic is Blind Source Separation of Frequency Hopping sources labeled with the aid of Direction of Arrival. Her work focuses on non-cooperative wireless communications. She performs blind source separation of frequency hopping sources with sparse and intermittent activity patterns under line-of-sight conditions. Her goal is to find the number and location of active sources, and decode the signals being transmitted. She labels frequency hopping signals originating from the same source with the aid of its direction of arrival (DOA). The frequency hopping patterns and DOA are individually estimated using compressive sensing techniques and then paired to label signals coming from different sources. The source activity properties are also utilized to filter spurious components and refine the active DOA estimations, hence improving source separation performance. In future work, she plans to extend her work to signals in the presence of Rician channel models.

Anushreya plans to be involved in the research and development of the wireless communications industry and help better current industry standards to be more sustainable and backward-compatible so countries with older technology can also help benefit from the advances being made in the field.

Anushreya likes reading fiction, discovering new cuisines, and trying her hand at cooking new dishes. She also loves visiting new places and believes the best way to get to know a place is on foot!
Fun fact: During the pandemic, Anushreya learned conversational Spanish. She is a proud Hufflepuff and never shies away from hard work once she sets her mind on a goal!
Find Anushreya on LinkedIn!