Raju Manthena

Raju Manthena received the bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, and the master's degree in electrical engineering with the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, where he is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in physics. He has been working with JPL for the past 5 years focusing on RF systems, electromagnetics, antennas, optical systems, and analog circuits, mainly for NASA's Deep Space Network, and radio astronomy applications. He has also worked on transient magnetic sensing for underground water and has been involved in building a physics package for atom interferometers. His Ph.D. thesis is experimental atomic physics for precision measurements, such as for dark matter and dark energy.