Hello World!

I am Sudarshan, currently a Research Assitant at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, where I work with Meng-Ru Wu on neutrino physics. I will soon begin a postdoctoral position with Hsi-Yu Schive at National Taiwan University, where I will continue exploring the exciting physics of exploding stars.

I completed my Ph.D. in Physics with a minor in Computer Science from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. I studied how massive stars end their lives in spectacular explosions, in particular core-collapse supernova explosions. My research used large-scale computer simulations to explore how these explosions unfold over time and how they shape the elements and structures we observe in the universe today. This work was carried out under the supervision of William R. Hix and Bronson Messer.

Before joining Ph.D., I completed my M.S. in Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth under the supervision of Robert Fisher. There, I studied thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae, the powerful explosions of white dwarfs that serve as crucial tools for understanding cosmic distances and chemical enrichment.