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Arushi Nath
Planetary-defence and exoplanet researcher. IAU Minor Planet Center code R60.


Third Grand Award Winner, International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), 2025.
Second Prize, European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), 2023.
Best Project Award, Canada-Wide Science Fair - 2023 and 2022 (back-to-back).



Talks and Posters


  • An Automated Three-Method Asteroid Rotation-Period Pipeline for Rubin First Look Data. Oral Talk, LSST/Rubin Community Workshop 2026, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, USA (Jul 2026)
  • Project MOON: Scalable Open-Data Framework for Autonomous Multi-Sensor Detection of Artemis Launch Signatures. Oral Talk, NASA Exploration Science Forum (NESF) 2026, NASA Ames Research Center (SSERVI), Mountain View, USA (Jul 2026)
  • Tracking the Artemis II Mission Using Open Science. Oral Talk, Canadian Space Agency (presented virtually from NESF 2026, NASA Ames), Canada (Jul 2026)
  • Photometric Characterization of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22: Rotation Period, Shape, and Taxonomy. Oral Talk, 32nd Young Scientists’ Conference on Astronomy & Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine (Apr 2026)
  • Determining the Rotation Period and Color Indices of Newly Discovered Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22. Oral Talk, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, Canada (Jan 2026)
  • Citizen Science Approaches to Planetary Defense and Exoplanet Characterization. Oral Talk, Foresight Seminar, San Francisco, USA (Oct 2025)
  • Extending Exoplanet Ephemerides through TTV Analysis Using NEPTUNE and Ground-Based Observations. Oral Talk, 5th Ariel/ExoClock Annual Meeting, Madrid, Spain (Oct 2025)
  • How I Built My Remote Observatory for Planetary Defense and Exoplanet Research. Oral Talk, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, Canada (Sep 2025)
  • Constraining Non-Transiting Exoplanet Parameters Using ML and MCMC-Driven N-Body Simulations. Oral Talk, Young Scientists’ Conference on Astronomy & Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine (Apr 2025)
  • PhAst: Accelerated Characterization of Asteroids Through Novel Integration of Dense and Sparse Photometry. Poster, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA (Dec 2024)
  • Training Machine Learning Models on N-Body Simulations to Analyze Transit Timing Variations. Oral Talk, 4th Ariel/ExoClock Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal (Oct 2024)
  • Accelerated Asteroid Characterization Using PhAst. Oral Talk, LSST/Rubin Community Workshop, Menlo Park, USA (Jul 2024)
  • Algorithms to Determine Asteroid Physical Properties Using Sparse and Dense Photometry. Poster, SciPy Conference, Tacoma, USA (Jul 2024)
  • PhAst: Accelerated Asteroid Characterization for Planetary Defense Applications. Oral Talk, AIAA LA Planetary Defense & Asteroid Exploration Conference, USA (Jun 2024)
  • Open Science for Planetary Defense: From NASA SpaceApps to Measuring the DART Mission Impact. Oral Talk, AGU Fall Meeting (Dec 2023)
  • Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid Physical Properties and the Success of the NASA DART Deflection Mission. Oral Talk, AAVSO Annual Meeting
  • Photometry Algorithms: From Asteroid Characterization to Exoplanetary Systems. Oral Talk, 3rd ExoClock Annual Meeting (Oct 2023)

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In Photos

Presenting AT-LAST, my asteroid rotation-period pipeline, at the Rubin Community Workshop, SLAC (July 2026)
Presenting AT-LAST, my asteroid rotation-period pipeline, at the Rubin Community Workshop, SLAC (July 2026)

Presenting Project MOON at NESF 2026

Presenting Project MOON at the NASA Exploration Science Forum, NASA Ames (July 2026)

Third place at NESF 2026

Third place, NESF student oral competition, with SSERVI Deputy Director Kristina Gibbs (July 2026)

With Jack Lissauer at NESF 2026

Discussing posters with Jack Lissauer of NASA Ames in Hangar One, NESF 2026

Talk at the ExoClock Annual Meeting 2025

Giving my talk at the 5th ExoClock Annual Meeting, Madrid (October 2025)

RASC talk December 2024

Talk on transit-timing variations, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto (December 2024)

Presenting to Dr. Andy Rivkin at PDC 2023

Presenting my research to Dr. Andy Rivkin, Lead of NASA’s DART Investigation Team, 8th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Vienna (April 2023)

Sharing my research with Dr. Cristina Thomas, Lead of the DART Observations Working Group, 8th IAA Planetary Defense Conference (April 2023)
Sharing my research with Dr. Cristina Thomas, Lead of the DART Observations Working Group, 8th IAA Planetary Defense Conference (April 2023)
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