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Faculty · Principal Investigator

Kevin M. Bandura, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy, at West Virginia University; member of the WVU Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology. Builds the instruments behind wide-field radio surveys — CHIME, its FRB outriggers, and HIRAX — to measure dark energy with 21 cm intensity mapping and to catch fast radio bursts in the act.

kevin.bandura@mail.wvu.edu (304) 293-9686 AERB 237, 109 Research Way, Morgantown, WV 26506 ORCID Google Scholar

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Education

Appointments

  • Associate Professor 2021–present Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University
  • Adjunct Professor 2015–present Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University
  • Member Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, West Virginia University
  • Assistant Professor 2015–2021 Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University
  • Postdoctoral Fellow 2011–2015 Department of Physics, McGill University

Honors & awards

Research support

Funding

Amounts are NSF obligated totals to date — public records; each award links to its page in the NSF award search.

Complete record

Publications

75 papers with CHIME, its FRB outriggers, and HIRAX, plus earlier work from the Carnegie Mellon and McGill years. The WVU-era entries also appear on the lab publication list.

Journal articles 50

Conference proceedings 8

Research notes & preprints 2

Before WVU 15

The Carnegie Mellon and McGill years, 2006–2016 — 21 cm intensity mapping at the GBT and GMRT, the CHIME Pathfinder, and the ICE correlator hardware.

Retracted 1

One paper was retracted after publication; its entry carries the retraction notice.

  • Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst

    CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

    Nature · 607, 256 · 2022

    Retracted 23 June 2026 (retraction notice: doi 10.1038/s41586-026-10799-8). An unusual calibration problem left CHIME's digital beams incorrectly pointed when FRB 20191221A was detected; the reported periodicity was the known Galactic pulsar PSR J0248+6021.

    K. BanduraP. SanghaviJ. Kania

Community planning

White papers & reports

Decadal-survey and long-range-plan submissions — the PUMA concept, CHORD, and the intensity-mapping program going back to Astro2010.

Teaching

  • EE 221 — Introduction to Electrical Engineering WVU
  • EE 345 — Engineering Electromagnetics WVU
  • EE 564 — Digital Signal Processing for Radio Astronomy WVU

Course syllabi: EE 221 (Fall 2018) · EE 591B — DSP for Radio Astronomy (Spring 2017).

Advising

Graduate students

Current researchers, then every graduate of the lab with a link to their thesis or dissertation — all also on the people page.

Graduated 7

Committee service 5

Graduate committees served on across Physics & Astronomy and the Lane Department, beyond his own students above.

Professional memberships

  • IEEE
  • American Physical Society
  • American Astronomical Society
  • American Society for Engineering Education

Selected talks & posters

  • WVUniverse public talk, WVU Planetarium — backyard radio astronomy — 2026
  • APS Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting (poster) — 2015
  • SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, Montreal — 2014
  • URSI, Boulder, Colorado — 2014
  • Interferometric Techniques for Impulsive Signals at Radio/Microwave Frequencies, Ohio State University — 2013
  • Intensity Mapping Workshop, Oxford — 2012
  • AAS Meeting, Boston (poster) — 2011
  • Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop (poster) — 2009
  • Sackler 21 cm Cosmology Conference, Harvard (poster) — 2008

Press

In the media 16

University news and press coverage of the lab's instruments and results, 2017 to now.

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