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People

The lab

A multidisciplinary group in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and part of WVU's Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, working across engineering and astronomy — and the alumni who built much of what runs today.

Principal Investigator

Kevin M. Bandura, Ph.D.

Kevin M. Bandura, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Dr. Bandura builds the systems behind wide-field radio telescopes — the analog front ends, FPGA correlators, and timing chains that let an instrument like CHIME survey the whole overhead sky at once. The science driving that work is 21 cm intensity mapping, which traces neutral hydrogen to measure how the universe's expansion has accelerated, and the outrigger stations that localize fast radio bursts precisely enough to identify the galaxies they came from.

kevin.bandura@mail.wvu.edu Faculty page & CV

Researchers

This could be you

We take on undergraduate and graduate researchers every year. Write to Prof. Kevin Bandura to talk about joining.

kevin.bandura@mail.wvu.edu

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