{"id":2337,"date":"2026-08-14T18:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:59:11","slug":"ritesh-bachhar-defends-his-phd-and-completes-his-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/ritesh-bachhar-defends-his-phd-and-completes-his-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritesh Bachhar Defends His PhD and Completes His Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re thrilled to share that Ritesh Bachhar successfully defended his PhD in physics at the University of Rhode Island this July. His dissertation, <strong>\u201cAdvancing Gravitational Waveform Modeling for Binary Black Holes: Expanding Parameter Space and Quantifying Uncertainty,\u201d<\/strong> tackles the challenging problem of creating fast, accurate, and reliable gravitational-wave models\u2014particularly for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals where traditional methods fall short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join us in congratulating Ritesh on this outstanding achievement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-1024x583.jpg\" alt=\"Ritesh Bachhar presenting his dissertation defense on gravitational waveform modeling for binary black holes.\" class=\"wp-image-2336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-1536x875.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-364x207.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-500x285.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-1000x569.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-1280x729.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation-2000x1139.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/ritesh-bachhar-phd-defense-presentation.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ritesh Bachhar presenting his dissertation defense.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Ritesh Bachhar on successfully defending his PhD in physics at the University of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4052,"featured_media":2335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}