Deepak Kumar Batheja

Deepak Kumar Batheja

Experimental plasma physicist with research interests that include high intensity laser matter interaction, high energy density physics, pulsed power, low temperature discharge plasmas and magnetic fusion.

Associate Research Scientist
Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI)
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Current Projects (and funding sources)

  1. A URA for Materials Science in Extreme Environments (Defense threat reduction agency)
  2. Soft X-ray measurements of transport and MHD activity in the core and edge of NSTX plasmas (US Department of Energy)

Experience

  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland USA
    • Research Experience – Associate Research Scientist August 2021

 

  • Department of High Power Systems (PALS facility), Institute of Physics, Czech Republic
    • Research experience – Scientist January 2021 – June 2021.

 

  • Department of ELI Beamlines, Institute of Physics, Czech Republic
    • Research experience – Applied Physicist November 2013 – December 2020.
    • Managerial (technology development) experience – Applied Physicist November 2013 – December 2020.

 

  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland USA
    • Research Experience – Post Doctoral Fellow December 2009 – December 2012.
    • Teaching Experience – Post Doctoral Fellow January 2011

 

  • Nonlinear Ion Dynamics, Panorama City, California USA
    • Work Experience – Associate Scientist August 2009 – September 2009

 

  • Saban Research Institute, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California USA
    • Work Experience – Consultant June – August 2009 and September – December 2009

 

  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California USA
    • Research Experience – Graduate Research Assistant September 2003 – June 2009
    • Teaching Experience – Graduate Teaching Assistant September 2004 – May 2008

 

  • The Golem Group, LLC, Santa Monica, California USA
    • Work Experience – Software Developer December 2006 – November 2007

 

  • The Golem Group / University of California, Los Angeles, California USA
    • Work Experience – Software Developer October 2004 – October 2005

 

  • Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas USA
    • Research Experience – Graduate Researcher November 2001 – June 2003
    • Teaching Experience – Graduate Teaching Assistant May 2002 – April 2003

Education

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. 

  • PhD, Applied Physics, March 2009. 
  • Doctoral Thesis: Experimental investigations of magnetohydrodynamic plasma jets. • Advisor: Paul M. Bellan 
  • M.S., Applied Physics, June 2004. 

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. 

  • M.S., Electrical Engineering (Information Theory and Channel Coding), August 2003. • Master’s Thesis: Optimal Finite Alphabet Sources Over Partial Response Channels • Advisors: Scott L. Miller and Krishna R. Narayanan 

Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai, India. 

  • B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, August 2001. 
  • Senior Year Thesis: Evoked Potential Estimation in Time Frequency Domain 
  • Advisors: Vikram M. Gadre and Suresh R. Devasahayam 

Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. 

  • Nurture Program in Mathematics conducted by National Board for Higher Mathematics, India. 1999- 2001. 

Honors and Awards

  • Member of Golem Group, LLC which received a seed funding of One Million dollars by DARPA in 2006
  • Recipient (co-principal investigator) for grant “Plasma optics for ultra-intense laser physics experi ments” from Czech Science Foundation (2018-2020). 
  • Recipient of the Graduate Research Fellowship by Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech (2003-2004). 
  • Best Paper Award for the paper “Nonparametric Waveform Estimation in Time and Time-Frequency Domain, An Application to Visual Evoked Potentials,” in BIOVISION 2001, held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in December 2001. 
  • Recipient of the Texas Telecommunication Engineering Consortium Fellowship (2001-2002).
  • “Most Innovative Project” award for the hardware project “Prosthetic Hand Control Using Audio Cues,” at the Technological Festivals of IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur in 2001. 
  • Scholarship from the National Board for Higher Mathematics, India(2000). 
  • Winner of a gold medal from the Indian Association of Physics Teachers for performance in the National Standard Examination in Physics 1997, India. The performance was among the 25 best in the country. 
  • Ranked 4th in the Regional Mathematics Olympiad in Orissa, India(1995). 

Other Interests

  • Court appointed special advocate with CASA of Baltimore. 2011-2012. 
  • Member of the Golem Group, LLC – a semi-finalist in the DARPA Urban Challenge 2007 and finalist in the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005. 
  • Co-Captain of the Caltech Karate Club. 2005-2007. Karate instructor in Doln´ı Bˇreˇzany, Czechia (2017-2020). 
  • Competed Marathons – Washington D.C. (2011), Baltimore (2012), Prague (2014). • Elevation gain to 18,200 ft. at the BASIC MOUNTAINEERING COURSE organized by the govern ment of Himachal Pradesh, India. July 2001. 

Featured Publications

  • Chris Armstrong, David Neely, Deepak Kumar, Paul McKenna, Ross Gray, and Alexander Pirozhkov. Deconvolution of multi-Boltzmann X-ray distribution from linear absorption spectrometer via analyt ical parameter reduction. submitted. Review of Scientific Instruments. 

 

  • Florian Condamine, No´emie Jourdain, Juan-Carlos Hernandez, Matthew Taylor, Hannes Bohlin, An tonin Fajstavr, Tae Moon Jeong, Deepak Kumar, Tomaˇs Laˇstoviˇcka, Oldrich Renner, and Stefan Weber. High-repetition rate solid target delivery system for PW-class laser-matter interaction at ELI Beamlines. Review of Scientific Instruments, 92, 063504 (2021). 

 

  • S. Borneis, T. Laˇstoviˇcka, M. Sokol, T.-M. Jeong, F. Condamine, O. Renner, V. Tikhonchuk, H. Bohlin, A. Fajstavr, J. C. Hernandez, N. Jourdain, D. Kumar, D. Modˇransk´y, A. Pokorn´y, A. Wolf, S. Zhai, G. Korn, S. Weber. Design, installation and commissioning of the ELI-Beamlines high power, high-repetition rate HAPLS laser beam transport system to P3. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 9, e30 (2021). 
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