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West Virginia University Radio Astronomy Instrumentation Laboratory
Portrait of Kevin M. Bandura

Kevin M. Bandura, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in WVU's Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy at WVU. Member of the WVU Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology. Builds instruments for CHIME, its FRB outriggers, and HIRAX. These surveys probe dark energy through 21 cm intensity mapping and detect fast radio bursts.

CV, lab publications, the lab

Education

Appointments

  • Associate Professor

    Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University

    2021–present

  • Adjunct Professor

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University

    2015–present

  • Member

    Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, West Virginia University

  • Assistant Professor

    Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University

    2015–2021

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

    Department of Physics, McGill University

    2011–2015

Honors and awards

Funding

Amounts are NSF obligated totals to date. Each award links to its page in the NSF award search.

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 and preprints (2)

Before WVU (15)

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

Retracted (1)

One paper was retracted after publication; its entry carries the retraction notice.

  • 2022

    Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst

    CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

    Lab authors: K. Bandura P. Sanghavi J. Kania

    Nature · 607, 256 · 2022

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

White papers and reports

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

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

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

Graduate students

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 and 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 and 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

In the media

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

This page uses the same data as the lab's publication and people pages. It lists 60 WVU-era papers and 7 graduates. A print-ready CV is also available.