Gaurav Khanna (physicist)
Gaurav Khanna is an Indian-American black hole physicist, supercomputing innovator, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Physics, and the founding Director of Research Computing and the Center for Computational Research at University of Rhode Island.
Gaurav Khanna | |
|---|---|
| Born | Chandigarh, India |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Black hole physicist, supercomputing innovator, academic and researcher |
| Title | Professor/Director |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Physical Society |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B. Tech., Electrical Engineering Ph. D., Physics |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis | Binary Black Hole Coalescence: The Close Limit (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jorge Pullin |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Rhode Island University of Massachusetts Dartmouth |
| Website | https://ccr.uri.edu https://web.uri.edu/gravity |
Khanna has authored 100 publications. His work is focused in the areas of gravitational physics, computational physics, black holes, and quantum gravity. He has also made contributions in the area of black hole perturbation theory, loop quantum cosmology, singularities and gravitational wave science. He is the creator of the OpenMacGrid, PlayStation 3 Gravity Grid, and developer of open-source software for scientific computing for the Mac. His work has been featured multiple times in newspapers and blogs, including The New York Times, HPCWire, Physics Buzz, The Verge, Forbes, Wired, Scientific American, among others. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021.
Khanna served as a guest editor for a 2018 special issue of IEEE CiSE with a focus on supercomputing.