Office: 208A Lewis Hall
Email: agupta1@olemiss.edu
Phone: (662) 915-2419
Degrees Earned
- Ph.D. in Physics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India (2014)
- MSc. in Physics from Banaras Hindu University, India (2009)
- B.S. in Science from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya Avadh University, India (2007)
Experience
- Assistant Professor, The University of Mississippi, USA (2020-present)
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pennsylvania State University, USA (2017–2020)
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India (2014–2017)
Awards
Individual awards:
- Excellence in Community Engagement Award, The University of Mississippi, USA (2024)
- Audience Prize for Best Presentation, Annual Postdoc Research Exhibition, Penn State University (2019)
- Best Poster Prize, WE-Heraeus Seminar on Equations of Motion in Relativistic Gravity, Germany (2013)
- Qualified CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test, India (2008, 2009)
Group awards:
- The Buchalter Cosmology Prize, Second prize (2019)
- Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016)
- Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize (2016)
Memberships
- Society of Physics Students 2023–current
- International Astronomical Union 2023–current
- LISA Consortium, associate member 2020–current
- American Physical Society 2019–current
- Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC)-3G-Science Case Team 2017–2020
- Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation, life member 2014–current
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration 2013–current
- IndIGO consortium 2013–2017
Research Interests
Dr. Gupta’s main research includes gravitational wave physics, astrophysics, physics of neutron stars and black holes, tests of general relativity, and cosmology. Dr. Gupta is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and LISA Consortium. Dr. Gupta works towards the detection and parameter estimation of gravitational wave signals coming mostly from binary systems composed of neutron stars and black holes.
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