General

• Full name: Rohit Subbarayan Chandramouli

Education

• 2021-2024 Ph.D. in Physics, 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 

Thesis advisor: Prof. Nicolas Yunes

• 2018-2021 MS in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (transferred from Montana State     University in 2019)

• 2014-2018 BS in Physics, Shiv Nadar University

Thesis advisor: Prof. Santosh Kumar

Professional Experience

• 2024-present Postdoctoral Researcher (incoming) at SISSA, Trieste.

• 2019-2024 Graduate Teaching/Research assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign            

• 2018-2019 Graduate Teaching assistant, Montana State University

• 2017 Summer Research Fellow / student, International center for Theoretical Sciences

• 2015 Summer Research student, Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Select Awards / Recognition

• 2023 Dissertation Completion Fellowship awarded by Graduate College at UIUC.

• 2023 APS DGRAV Travel award.

• 2022 Scott Anderson award for outstanding graduate assistantship at UIUC.

• 2021 Spring '21 University Research Fellowship for outstanding recent research accomplishments at UIUC.

• 2019/20 Excellent teacher recognition by CITL at UIUC.

• 2017 Fellow of ICTS-SN Bhatt Memorial Fellowship.

Research Interests

• Gravitational wave astrophysics and data analysis

  • • Modeling dynamics of compact objects and resulting gravitational waveforms using analytical tools (perturbation theory).

    • Parameter estimation from compact binary coalescences using Bayesian methods and implications for fundamental physics and astrophysics.

    • Tests of general relativity and waveform systematics.

Publications (see my full CV for ongoing/submitted manuscripts ; check my ORCiD for complete     list ; alt list of papers in NASA/ADS or iNSPIRE-hep)

• Systematic biases in parametrized tests of general relativity due to waveform mismodeling: the impact of neglecting spin precession and higher modes, R. S. Chandramouli, K. Prokup, E. Berti, and N. Yunes, arXiv:2410.06254.

DOI link: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.06254

• A constraint on the dissipative tidal deformability of neutron stars, J.L. Ripley, A. Hegade K.R., R.S. Chandramouli, and N. Yunes, Nat. Astron. (2024)

DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02323-7 

• Ready-to-use Analytic Model for Gravitational Waves from a Hierarchical Triple with Kozai-Lidov Oscillations, R.S. Chandramouli, N. Yunes, Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 

DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.064009 

• Electronic transport in chaotic mesoscopic cavities: A Kwant and random matrix theory based exploration, R.S. Chandramouli, R.K. Srivastav, S. Kumar, Chaos 30, 123120 (2020). [Note: paper contains results from my UG thesis.]

DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0026039

• Efficient implementation of the Wang-Landau algorithm for systems with length-scalable potential energy functions, S. Kumar, G. Kumar, R.S. Chandramouli, S. Anand, Physical Review E 98, 063301 (2018).

DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.063301