Associate Professor, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University ·
Member, WVU Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology
2011Ph.D., Physics, Carnegie Mellon University. Thesis: “Pathfinder for a Neutral Hydrogen Dark Energy Survey” (advisor: Jeff Peterson).
2003B.S., Physics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University.
Appointments
2021–presentAssociate Professor, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University
2015–presentAdjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University
Member, Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, West Virginia University
2015–2021Assistant Professor, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University
2011–2015Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, McGill University
Honors & Awards
2026Outstanding Researcher, senior level (2025–26) — Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University
2023Outstanding Researcher, senior level (2022–23) — Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University
2022Lancelot M. Berkeley – New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy, awarded to the CHIME/FRB team — American Astronomical Society
Research Funding
2025–2028“Mapping the Universe in Neutral Hydrogen with CHIME” — NSF 2510773, PI, $281,080.
2025–2028“Collaborative Research: Advanced Digital Calibrators for 21cm Cosmology” — NSF 2511256, PI, $321,340.
2023–2027“Collaborative Research: New Interference Detection, Mitigation, and Fusion Methodologies” — NSF 2307581, Co-PI (PI N. Schmid, with D. Lorimer), $510,811.
2021–2026“Collaborative Research: Advanced Digital Calibrators for 21cm Cosmology” — NSF 2108338, PI, $233,044.
2020–2026“MRI: Development of a CHIME Outrigger Telescope” — NSF 2018490, PI (co-PIs J. Peterson, K. Masui), $1,762,469.
2020–2024“Collaborative Research: Cosmology with CHIME” — NSF 2006548, PI, $242,120.
2017–2021“RET Site: Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy (DSPIRA)” — NSF 1611114, Co-PI (PI N. Schmid), $577,815.
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles (50)
J. W. Kania, K. Bandura, D. R. Lorimer, R. Prestage, “Millisecond-cadence Radio Frequency Interference Filters,” The Astronomical Journal, AJ 171, 73 (2026), doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ae0d86.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “The Second CHIME/FRB Catalog of Fast Radio Bursts,” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, ApJS 283, 34 (2026), doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ae3828.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “A Catalog of Local Universe Fast Radio Bursts from CHIME/FRB and the KKO Outrigger,” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, ApJS 280, 6 (2025), doi:10.3847/1538-4365/addbda.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “A pulsar-like polarization angle swing from a nearby fast radio burst,” Nature, Nature 637, 43 (2025), doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08184-4.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “A Very Long Baseline Interferometry Calibrator Grid at 600 MHz for Fast Radio Transient Localizations with CHIME/FRB Outriggers,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 981, 39 (2025), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/adaf8d.
W. Tyndall et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Beam Maps of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Measured With a Drone,” IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, IEEE OJAP 6, 928 (2025), doi:10.1109/OJAP.2025.3554457.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “CHIME/FRB Outriggers: Design Overview,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 993, 55 (2025), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/adfdcc.
CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Demonstration of hybrid foreground removal on CHIME data,” Physical Review D, PRD 111, 103531 (2025), doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.111.103531.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “FRB 20250316A: A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJL 989, L48 (2025), doi:10.3847/2041-8213/adf62f.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Stellar Mass-Dispersion Measure Correlations Constrain Baryonic Feedback in Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJL 991, L25 (2025), doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ae044d.
CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “A Detection of Cosmological 21 cm Emission from CHIME in Cross-correlation with eBOSS Measurements of the Lya Forest,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 963, 23 (2024), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad0f1d.
T. Cassanelli, C. Leung, P. Sanghavi, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “A fast radio burst localized at detection to an edge-on galaxy using very-long-baseline interferometry,” Nature Astronomy, Nat. Astron. 8, 1429 (2024), doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02357-x. T. Cassanelli, C. Leung, and P. Sanghavi contributed equally — co-first and co-corresponding authors.
A. E. Lanman et al. (CHIME/FRB Collaboration), incl. K. Bandura, “CHIME/FRB Outriggers: KKO Station System and Commissioning Results,” The Astronomical Journal, AJ 168, 87 (2024), doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ad5838.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Do All Fast Radio Bursts Repeat? Constraints from CHIME/FRB Far Sidelobe FRBs,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 975, 75 (2024), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad779d.
Z. Cao, N. A. Schmid, K. Bandura, D. R. Lorimer, et al., “Interference detection in radio astronomy: applying Shapiro-Wilks normality test, spectral entropy, and spectral relative entropy,” RAS Techniques and Instruments, RASTI 3, 535 (2024), doi:10.1093/rasti/rzae035.
P. Sanghavi, C. Leung, K. Bandura, et al., “TONE: A CHIME/FRB Outrigger Pathfinder for Localizations of Fast Radio Bursts using Very Long Baseline Interferometry,” Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, JAI 13, 2450010 (2024), doi:10.1142/S2251171724500107.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Updating the First CHIME/FRB Catalog of Fast Radio Bursts with Baseband Data,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 969, 145 (2024), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad464b.
K. Bhopi, W. Tyndall, P. Sanghavi, K. Bandura, L. Newburgh, J. Gallicchio, “A Digital Calibration Source for 21 cm Cosmology Telescopes,” Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, JAI 12, 2250016 (2023), doi:10.1142/S2251171722500167.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “CHIME/FRB Discovery of 25 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 947, 83 (2023), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acc6c1.
CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Detection of Cosmological 21 cm Emission with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 947, 16 (2023), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acb13f.
J. Mena-Parra et al. (CHIME/FRB Collaboration), incl. K. Bandura, “A Clock Stabilization System for CHIME/FRB Outriggers,” The Astronomical Journal, AJ 163, 48 (2022), doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac397a.
A. E. Lanman, B. C. Andersen, P. Chawla, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “A Sudden Period of High Activity from Repeating Fast Radio Burst 20201124A,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 927, 59 (2022), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac4bc7.
CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “An Overview of CHIME, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment,” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, ApJS 261, 29 (2022), doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ac6fd9.
C. Leung, Z. Kader, K. W. Masui, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Constraining primordial black holes using fast radio burst gravitational-lens interferometry with CHIME/FRB,” Physical Review D, PRD 106, 043017 (2022), doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.043017.
Z. Kader, C. Leung, M. Dobbs, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “High-time resolution search for compact objects using fast radio burst gravitational lens interferometry with CHIME/FRB,” Physical Review D, PRD 106, 043016 (2022), doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.043016.
D. Crichton et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Hydrogen Intensity and Real-Time Analysis Experiment: 256-element array status and overview,” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, JATIS 8, 011019 (2022), doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.011019.
T. Cassanelli, C. Leung, M. Rahman, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope,” The Astronomical Journal, AJ 163, 65 (2022), doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac3d2f.
P. Chawla, V. M. Kaspi, S. M. Ransom, et al., “Modeling Fast Radio Burst Dispersion and Scattering Properties in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 927, 35 (2022), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac49e1.
CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Using the Sun to Measure the Primary Beam Response of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 932, 100 (2022), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac6b9f.
M. Bhardwaj, A. Yu. Kirichenko, D. Michilli, et al., “A Local Universe Host for the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 20181030A,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJL 919, L24 (2021), doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac223b.
C. Leung, J. Mena-Parra, K. Masui, et al., “A Synoptic VLBI Technique for Localizing Nonrepeating Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME/FRB,” The Astronomical Journal, AJ 161, 81 (2021), doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abd174.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “An Analysis Pipeline for CHIME/FRB Full-array Baseband Data,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 910, 147 (2021), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abe626.
M. Rafiei-Ravandi, K. M. Smith, D. Li, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 Results: Statistical Cross-correlations with Large-scale Structure,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 922, 42 (2021), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac1dab.
Z. Pleunis, D. C. Good, V. M. Kaspi, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Fast Radio Burst Morphology in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 923, 1 (2021), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac33ac.
A. Josephy, P. Chawla, A. P. Curtin, et al., “No Evidence for Galactic Latitude Dependence of the Fast Radio Burst Sky Distribution,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 923, 2 (2021), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac33ad.
CHIME/Pulsar Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “The CHIME Pulsar Project: System Overview,” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, ApJS 255, 5 (2021), doi:10.3847/1538-4365/abfdcb.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog,” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, ApJS 257, 59 (2021), doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ac33ab.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar,” Nature, Nature 587, 54 (2020), doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2863-y.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy,” Nature, Nature 577, 190 (2020), doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1866-z.
P. Chawla, B. C. Andersen, M. Bhardwaj, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Detection of Repeating FRB 180916.J0158+65 Down to Frequencies of 300 MHz,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJL 896, L41 (2020), doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab96bf.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Nine New Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources from CHIME/FRB,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJL 891, L6 (2020), doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab7208.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source,” Nature, Nature 582, 351 (2020), doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2398-2.
P. Scholz et al. (CHIME/FRB Collaboration), incl. K. Bandura, “Simultaneous X-Ray and Radio Observations of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 180916.J0158+65,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 901, 165 (2020), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abb1a8.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Observations of fast radio bursts at frequencies down to 400 megahertz,” Nature, Nature 566, 230 (2019), doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0867-7.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “CHIME/FRB Detection of the Original Repeating Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 121102,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJL 882, L18 (2019), doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab2c00.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “CHIME/FRB Discovery of Eight New Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJL 885, L24 (2019), doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab4a80.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “A Second Source of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts,” Nature, Nature 566, 235 (2019), doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0864-x.
J. Mena-Parra, K. Bandura, M. A. Dobbs, et al., “Quantization Bias for Digital Correlators,” Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, JAI 7, 1850008 (2018), doi:10.1142/S2251171718500083.
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “The CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project: System Overview,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 863, 48 (2018), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aad188.
CHIME Scientific Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Limits on the ultra-bright Fast Radio Burst population from the CHIME Pathfinder,” The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ 844, 161 (2017), doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa713f.
Conference proceedings (8)
E. R. Kuhn et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Antenna characterization for the HIRAX experiment,” Proc. SPIE 12182, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX, Proc. SPIE 12182, 1218225 (2022), doi:10.1117/12.2627856.
A. Reda, T. Pinsonneault-Marotte, M. Deng, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Characterization of the John A. Galt telescope for radio holography with CHIME,” Proc. SPIE 12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, Proc. SPIE 12190, 121902V (2022), doi:10.1117/12.2629429.
B. R. B. Saliwanchik et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Mechanical and optical design of the HIRAX radio telescope,” Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII, Proc. SPIE 11445, 114455O (2020), doi:10.1117/12.2552508.
E. R. Kuhn et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Noise temperature testing for the Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX),” Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII, Proc. SPIE 11445, 114452Z (2020), doi:10.1117/12.2560270.
P. Sanghavi, K. Bandura, J. Makous, H. Chun, “Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy: An Interdisciplinary Experience,” 2019 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), pp. 362-366 (2019), doi:10.1109/ISECon.2019.8882039.
C. Ng et al., incl. K. Bandura, “CHIME FRB: An application of FFT beamforming for a radio telescope,” 2017 XXXIInd URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) (2017), doi:10.23919/URSIGASS.2017.8105318.
L. B. Newburgh, K. Bandura, et al., “HIRAX: a probe of dark energy and radio transients,” Proc. SPIE 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI, Proc. SPIE 9906, 99065X (2016), doi:10.1117/12.2234286.
P. Berger, L. B. Newburgh, et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Holographic beam mapping of the CHIME pathfinder array,” Proc. SPIE 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI, Proc. SPIE 9906, 99060D (2016), doi:10.1117/12.2233782.
Research notes & preprints (2)
G. Langston, K. Bandura, P. Sanghavi, “Discovery of Microsecond Duration Radio Flashes with Small Radio Telescopes,” Research Notes of the AAS, RNAAS 10, 7 (2026), doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ae34b0.
K. Bhopi, M. Cole, M. Helfenbein, W. Tyndall, A. Whitmer, K. Bandura, L. Newburgh, “PEACC - Precision Emitter for 21 cm Array Coherent Calibration,” arXiv preprint (2026), arXiv:2604.09859. Preprint.
Earlier work, before WVU (15)
K. Bandura, A. N. Bender, J. F. Cliche, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, et al., “ICE: A Scalable, Low-cost FPGA-Based Telescope Signal Processing and Networking System,” Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, JAI 5 (2016), doi:10.1142/S2251171716410051.
K. Bandura, J. F. Cliche, M. A. Dobbs, A. J. Gilbert, D. Ittah, J. Mena-Parra, G. Smecher, “ICE-Based Custom Full-Mesh Network for the CHIME High Bandwidth Radio Astronomy Correlator,” Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, JAI 5 (2016), doi:10.1142/S225117171641004X.
P. Klages, K. Bandura, N. Denman, A. Recnik, J. Sievers, K. Vanderlinde, “GPU Kernels for High-Speed 4-Bit Astrophysical Data Processing,” 2015 IEEE 26th Int. Conf. on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), pp. 164–165 (2015), doi:10.1109/ASAP.2015.7245729.
N. Denman et al., incl. K. Bandura, “A GPU-based Correlator X-engine Implemented on the CHIME Pathfinder,” 2015 IEEE 26th Int. Conf. on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), pp. 35–40 (2015), doi:10.1109/ASAP.2015.7245702.
A. Recnik et al., incl. K. Bandura, “An Efficient Real-time Data Pipeline for the CHIME Pathfinder Radio Telescope X-engine,” 2015 IEEE 26th Int. Conf. on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), pp. 57–61 (2015), doi:10.1109/ASAP.2015.7245705.
EBEX Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “The Performance of the Bolometer Array and Readout System during the 2012/2013 Flight of the E and B Experiment (EBEX),” Proc. SPIE 9153, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII (2014), doi:10.1117/12.2056267.
K. Bandura et al., “Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Pathfinder,” Proc. SPIE 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, 914522 (2014), arXiv:1406.2288.
L. B. Newburgh et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Calibrating CHIME: A New Radio Interferometer to Probe Dark Energy,” Proc. SPIE 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V (2014), arXiv:1406.2267.
J. Mena-Parra, K. Bandura, J.-F. Cliche, M. A. Dobbs, A. Gilbert, Q. Y. Tang, “A Radio-Frequency-over-Fiber Link for Large-Array Radio Astronomy Applications,” Journal of Instrumentation, JINST 8, T10003 (2013), arXiv:1308.5481.
G. Paciga, J. G. Albert, K. Bandura, et al., “A Simulation-calibrated Limit on the HI Power Spectrum from the GMRT Epoch of Reionization Experiment,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, MNRAS 433, 639 (2013), arXiv:1301.5906.
E. R. Switzer, K. W. Masui, K. Bandura, et al., “Determination of z ≈ 0.8 Neutral Hydrogen Fluctuations Using the 21 cm Intensity Mapping Autocorrelation,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, MNRAS 434, L46 (2013), doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slt074.
K. W. Masui, E. R. Switzer, N. Banavar, K. Bandura, et al., “Measurement of 21 cm Brightness Fluctuations at z ≈ 0.8 in Cross-correlation,” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJL 763, L20 (2013), arXiv:1208.0331.
T.-C. Chang, U.-L. Pen, K. Bandura, J. B. Peterson, “An Intensity Map of Hydrogen 21-cm Emission at Redshift z ≈ 0.8,” Nature, Nature 466, 463 (2010), doi:10.1038/nature09187.
U.-L. Pen, T.-C. Chang, J. B. Peterson, J. Roy, Y. Gupta, K. Bandura, “The GMRT Search for Reionization: The Evolution of Galaxies Through the Neutral Hydrogen Window,” AIP Conference Proceedings, AIP Conf. Proc. 1035, 75 (2008), doi:10.1063/1.2973618.
J. B. Peterson, K. Bandura, U.-L. Pen, “The Hubble Sphere Hydrogen Survey,” arXiv preprint (2006), arXiv:astro-ph/0606104.
Retracted (1)
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura, “Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst,” Nature, Nature 607, 256 (2022), doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04841-8. 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.
White papers & community reports (5)
K. Vanderlinde, K. Bandura, L. Belostotski, R. Bond, P. Boyle, et al., “LRP 2020 Whitepaper: The Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD),” Canadian Long Range Plan (LRP2020) white paper (2019), arXiv:1911.01777.
K. Bandura, E. Castorina, L. Connor, et al., “Packed Ultra-wideband Mapping Array (PUMA): A Radio Telescope for Cosmology and Transients,” Astro2020 Decadal Survey project white paper (2019), arXiv:1907.12559.
P. Timbie et al., incl. K. Bandura, “Research and Development for HI Intensity Mapping,” Astro2020 Decadal Survey APC white paper (2019), arXiv:1907.13090.
Cosmic Visions 21 cm Collaboration (R. Ansari, E. J. Arena, K. Bandura, et al.), “Inflation and Early Dark Energy with a Stage II Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment,” Cosmic Visions Dark Energy report (2018), arXiv:1810.09572.
J. B. Peterson et al., incl. K. Bandura, “21-cm Intensity Mapping,” Astro2010 Decadal Survey white paper (2009), arXiv:0902.3091.
Teaching
EE 221 — Introduction to Electrical Engineering — West Virginia University
EE 345 — Engineering Electromagnetics — West Virginia University
EE 564 — Digital Signal Processing for Radio Astronomy — West Virginia University
Advising
Current graduate students
Dylan J. Gormley — Ph.D. Candidate
Graduated (7)
Kalyani B. Bhopi — Ph.D. Dissertation, 2026:
“A Digital Calibration Source for 21 cm Cosmology Telescopes” (now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica (Taiwan))
John W. Metzger — M.S. Thesis, 2026:
“Enhancing CHIME Data Integrity: Utilizing an Ancillary Antenna to Detect and Mask Radio Frequency Interference”
Kholoud S. T. A. Khairy — M.S. Thesis, 2025:
“Green Bank CHIME/FRB Outriggers Commissioning and Analog System Development” (now: System Engineer III, M.C. Dean)
Joseph W. Kania — Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023:
“Applications of Digital Filters in Radio Astronomy” (now: Senior Research Platforms Engineer, University of Manchester)
Pranav R. Sanghavi — Ph.D. Dissertation, 2022:
“Pathfinding Fast Radio Bursts Localizations using Very Long Baseline Interferometry” (now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Xiaoqian He — M.S. Thesis, 2018:
“Spatial Fourier Transform for Blind Detection of Radio Observations of Rotating Radio Transients” (now: Senior System Design Engineer, AMD)
Akshaya Rane — Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017:
“A Study of the Fast Radio Burst Population” (now: Senior Data Scientist, lululemon)
Thesis & dissertation committees (member)
Evan T. Smith — Ph.D., Physics & Astronomy, 2022: “Impact of Radio Frequency Interference and Real-Time Spectral Kurtosis Mitigation” (chair: D.J. Pisano)
Morgan R. Dameron — M.S., Lane Dept. of CSEE, 2022: “Inferential Statistics and Information Theoretical Measures: An Approach to Interference Detection in Radio Astronomy” (chair: Natalia Schmid)
Brent J. Shapiro-Albert — Ph.D., Physics & Astronomy, 2021: “Pulsar Noise Processes and Emission Physics” (chair: Maura McLaughlin)
Marwan M. Alkhweldi — Ph.D., Lane Dept. of CSEE, 2021: “Transform Based Approaches for the Detection of Astrophysical Signals” (chair: Natalia A. Schmid)
Nickolas M. Pingel — Ph.D., Physics & Astronomy, 2017: “Deep Extragalactic Neutral Hydrogen Surveys with the Green Bank Telescope” (chair: D.J. Pisano)
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