Rate My Professor Susmita Sett

Sett's academic interests center on observational radio astronomy, including pulsar searches and characterizations, X-ray binaries, and multi-wavelength time-domain astronomy. After completing her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at CIRA, studying X-ray binaries in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. She currently serves as a Telescope Operator and Data Analyst in the Operations team at the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), supporting daily telescope operations and the analysis and quality assessment of large-scale data. Her peer-reviewed publications include 'Image-based searches for pulsar candidates using MWA VCS data' (2023, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia), 'Single-pulse analysis and average emission characteristics of PSR J1909-3744' (2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society), 'ASKAP Detection of the Ultra-Long Spin Period Pulsar PSR J0901-5611' (2025, Galaxies), 'Classifying Compact Radio Emission in Nearby Galaxies: A 10 GHz Study of Active Galactic Nuclei, Supernovae, Anomalous Microwave Emission and Star-forming Regions' (2025), 'No Evidence for Accretion around the Intermediate-mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri' (2026, The Astrophysical Journal), and 'Exploring LSST's capabilities for early detection of outbursts in low-mass X-ray binaries' (2026). She is an associate member of the SKAO Pulsars Science Working Group and contributed to the organizing committee for ICRARCon 2025.