Arun Kannawadi
www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/akannawa
www.github.com/arunkannawadi
Ph.D. candidate, McWilliams Center for Cosmology
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
[email protected]
CITIZENSHIP
Indian
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Weak gravitational lensing, Sparse representation of galaxy images,
Large-scale structure of the Universe, Cosmology.
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Philosophy
Summer 2013 - Summer 2016
McWilliams Center for Cosmology
(expected)
Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Prof. Rachel Mandelbaum
Thesis title: Enabling realistic image simulations for weak lensing
Master of Science, Physics
Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), Madras
Chennai, India
Minor: Physics
Fall 2011 - Spring 2013
August 2007 - June 2011
PUBLICATIONS A. Kannawadi et al. “The Impact of Interpixel Capacitance on WFIRST PSFs”.
(First author only) In: ArXiv e-prints (Dec. 2015). arXiv: 1512.01570 [astro-ph.IM].
A. Kannawadi, R. Mandelbaum, and C. Lackner. “The impact of cosmic variance
on simulating weak lensing surveys”. In: MNRAS 449 (June 2015), pp. 3597–3612.
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv520. arXiv: 1412.1094.
A. Kannawadi, A. Sharma, and A. Lakshminarayan. “Localized eigenstates with
enhanced entanglement in quantum Heisenberg spin-glasses”. In: ArXiv e-prints (July
2014). arXiv: 1407.5090 [quant-ph].
ONGOING
PROJECTS
Extension of the study of interpixel capacitance in WFIRST detectors to find its
impact on shear calibration biases.
Sparse representation of galaxies using Dictionary Learning (DL) techniques.
POSTERS
PRESENTED
Workshop on Foreground physical effects on LSST WL Science
224th meeting, American Astronomical Society (AAS), Boston
TALKS
228th meeting, American Astronomical Society (AAS), San Diego
Santa Fe Cosmology Workshop, 2015
Astrosnacks meeting, University of Pittsburgh
December 2015
June 2014
June 2016
July 2015
May 2015
Neighborhood workshop, Pennsylvania State University (PSU)
March 2015
Physics department seminar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras January 2015
WORKSHOPS
ATTENDED
SOFTWARE
SKILLS
LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration meeting
March
Wide Field Infra-Red Survey (WFIRS) Science & techniques meeting, Pasadena
November
Santa Fe Cosmology Workshops, 2013 & 2014
July 2013,
Summer school on Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University (PSU) May
2015
2014
2014
2013
C, C++, Python, Matlab/Octave, Git, LATEX
Co-developed GalSim1 , an open source package for realistic galaxy image simulations.
PROFESSIONAL Member of the WFIRST Detector requirements team
ACTIVITIES & Member of Euclid Consortium and LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
OUTREACH
Reviewer for Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
Poster Judge for Meeting of the Minds (CMU, May 2016) and 228th AAS meeting
Coordinator for Science outreach, National Service Scheme
- Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Aug 2008 - July 2009
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Physics-II for Science students (33-112)
Summer Academy of Mathematics and Science (SAMS)
- Electronics lab
Physics-II for Engineers (33-107)
Matter and Interactions-II (33-132)
Physics-II for Science students (33-112)
Fall 2012
Summer-2
Summer-1
Spring
Fall
2012
2012
2012
2011
GRADUATE
COURSES
Compressive Sensing & Sparse Optimatization (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Machine Learning
Computer Vision (Robotics Institute)
Monte Carlo techniques
Quantum Field Theory (I,II)
Particle Physics (I,II)
Electrodynamics (I,II)
Quantum Mechanics (I,II)
Statistical Mechanics
Many-body quantum physics
LEADERSHIP
President, Indian Graduate Student Association, CMU
2014
- Served as Vice-President and treasurer in previous years.
Coordinator - Shaastra Circuit Design Challenge
- Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
2010
School Pupil Leader
- M.C.C. Hr. Sec. School, Chennai, India
July 2006 - April 2007
1 https://github.com/GalSim-developers/GalSim