Rohan Bhandari

I am currently a first year PhD candidate in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I have been working with Professor David Stuart as part of the CMS Collaboration, one of the groups working at the Large Hadron Collider. As of now, my research has been focused on looking for evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model, such as Supersymmetry.

As an undergraduate at Columbia University, I worked in the lab of Professor Richard Osgood, where I investigated the properties of Graphene. I also worked with Professor John Parsons as part of the ATLAS experiment in searching for non-prompt, non-pointing photons, which would be evidence for Supersymmetry.

Rohan was also Co-Technical Lead with the Uganda Program of the Columbia University Engineers Without Borders. The group is installing Multifunction Platforms (MFP) in rural Ugandan communities. MFPs are essentially large diesel engines that we are using for agricultural processing. The MFPs help to reduce the burden on women and allow children to stay in school longer, as they do not need to do the work by hand. In addition, the processed crops can be sold at a higher price, which helps to raise the standard of living for the community.