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General Information

Full Name Koustav Chandra
Languages English, Bengali, Hindi, Odia

Experience

  • 2023 - Present
    Postdoc
    Penn State University

Education

  • 2018 - 2023
    PhD in Physics
    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    • {"Hearing Gravitational Waves from Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Binaries"=>"Detection and Characterisation"}
    • Summa Cum Laude
    • Research performed under the supervision of Prof. Archana Pai
  • 2013 - 2018
    Integrated M.Sc. in Physics and Astronomy
    National Institute of Technology Rourkela
    • An Algebraic Study of SO(10) Grand Unified Theory
    • Research performed under the supervision of Dr. Sasmita Mishra

Open Source Projects

  • 2019 - Present
    PyCBC
  • 2024 - Present
    GWForge
    • A lightweight code to generate mock gravitational wave data using user-defined population and arbitrary detector sensitivity.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Research (2022 - 2024)
  • 2018
    • Department Prize for Outstanding Student Performance, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Academic Interests

  • Modelled searches for quasi-spherical black hole binaries
  • Measurement of binary remnant properties
  • Black hole spectroscopy
  • Machine learning methods for gravitational-wave data analysis

Other Adventures

  • Hobbies: Hiking (more of "Strolling" 🏞️), Bicycling, mastering "Mamamia" in language lessons 🇮🇹, and binge-watching like it’s an Olympic event 🍿📺.