Sunil Simha
Student at Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSunil Simha is a PhD candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz with nine years of research experience using Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to probe ionized matter on cosmological scales. As part of the F^4 team he conducts optical follow-up with Keck LRIS and DEIMOS to identify foreground galaxies and quantify their halo contributions to FRB dispersion measures. His work blends observational spectroscopy, careful line-of-sight modeling, and cosmological inference, translating telescope data into constraints on baryons beyond galaxies. Trained at IIT Madras with a strong physics foundation, he combines rigorous theoretical understanding with hands-on observational skills and a knack for connecting small-scale galactic gas to large-scale cosmic structure.
9 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (37)
reduction10
python10
pipeline10
electron9
typescript9
editor8
visual-studio8
vscode8
orbital-mechanics8
vscode-extension8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft8
planning7
observation6
cosmology6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SunilSimha/mypython
Feb 2019 - Jun 2024
A collection of python code - unfortunately not very user friendly
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 comments in 5 years 4 months
python-codepythonuser-friendly
SunilSimha/tilsotua
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
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