Research Interests

Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Plasma Physics, Computational Physics, Higher Education in India

Assistant Professor, St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Ahmedabad (since September 2022)

 

Visiting Faculty at various universities (July 2021 – August 2022)

 

Assistant Professor, Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar (October 2015 – April 2021)

 

Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar (July 2013 – October 2015)

Teaching Since: September 07, 2022

Total Experience: 3 years and 0 months

  1. “Investigating the Kinetic Effects on Current Gradient-Driven Instabilities of Electron Current Layers via Particle-in-Cell Simulations”, Sushmita Anilkumar Mishra, Gurudatt Gaur and Bhavesh Patel, Physica Scripta 100, 035606, 2025

 

  1. “Detection of gravitational wave signals from precessing binary black hole systems using convolutional neural networks”, C Verma, A Reza, G Gaur, D Krishnaswamy, S Caudill, Physical Review D 110 (10), 104014, 2024

 

  1. “Employing Deep Learning for Detection of Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences”, C Verma, A Reza, D Krishnaswamy, S Caudill, Gurudatt Gaur, AIP Conference Proceedings 2555, 020010 (2022).

 

  1. “The Science Case for LIGO India”, M. Saleem, Javed Rana, V. Gayathri, Aditya Vijaykumar, Srashti Goyal, Surabhi Sachdev, Jishnu Suresh, S.Sudhagar, Arunava Mukherjee, Gurudatt Gaur, Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Archana Pai, Rana X Adhikari, P. Ajith, Sukanta Bose, Classical and Quantum Gravity 39, 025004 (2022).

 

  1. “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger”, BP Abbott et al. [including Gurudatt Gaur as part of LIGO Scientific Collaboration], Physical Review Letters 116, 061102 (2016).

 

  1. “Tearing and Surface Preserving Electron Magnetohydrodynamics Modes in a Current Layer”, Gurudatt Gaur and Predhiman Kaw, Phys. Plasmas 23, 032106 (2016).

 

  1. “Linear and Nonlinear Studies of Velocity Shear Driven Three Dimensional Electron Magnetohydrodynamics instability”, Gurudatt Gaur and Amita Das, Phys. Plasmas 19, 072103 (2012).

 

  1. “Role of Natural Length and Time Scales on Shear Driven Two Dimensional Electron Magnetohydrodynamic instability”, Gurudatt Gaur, Sita Sundar, Sharad K. Yadav, Amita Das, Predhiman Kaw, and S. Sharma. Phys. Plasmas 16, 072310 (2009).

  1. Current Gradient Driven Electron Inertial Scale Modes: A Numerical Study, 3rd International Conference on Plasma Theory and Simulations (PTS – 2023), May 21 – 24, 2023, JNU, New Delhi.

 

  1. Using Amplitude-Corrected Waveforms for Parameter Estimation of Binary Compact Objects Simulated as Numerical Relativity Waveforms, IAGRG at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, India, January 2019.

 

  1. Lightning talk on poster in Time Series Analysis for Synoptic Surveys and Gravitational Wave Astronomy workshop at ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India, March 2017.

 

  1. An improved search for gravitational waves from binary black holes in LIGO data using multi-detector geometrical coincidence at International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC-2015), IISER Mohali, India, December 2015.

 

  1. Search for gravitational waves from binary black holes using geometrical coincidence, a seminar at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, July 2015.

 

  1. Seminar at Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India, June 2013.

 

  1. 1st PSSI-Plasma Scholar’s Colloquium, IPR, Gandhinagar, India, July 2012.

 

  1. IPR Scholars’ Research Colloquium, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India, April 2011 and October 2011.

 

  1. International Symposium on Waves, Coherent Structures and Turbulence in Plasmas, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India, January 2010.

 

  1. Sokendai Asian Winter School, NIFS, Toki, Japan, January 2010.

 

  1. 24th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology – Plasma-2009, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India, December 2009

Visiting Associate, Inter University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India (since 2016).

 

2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared between the LIGO founders and the contributors to the discovery) for the first observation of gravitational waves on September 14, 2015.

 

Coordinator of a Supercomputer Facility sponsored by GUJCOST, Government of Gujarat, at IAR, Gandhinagar.

 

Co-PI of SERB Extra Mural Project “A Bayesian approach for CBC parameter reconstruction and tests of General Relativity using amplitude-corrected post-Newtonian waveforms”, funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2017-2019).

 

Co-PI of Project “Development of plasma rotating electrode process to obtain high purity spherical

metallic powders”, funded by DAE-BRNS.

 

Senior Member, IndIGO-LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) (2014 – 2019).

 

Member, Indian Initiative in Gravitational Wave Observations (IndIGO) Consortium.

 

Member, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies – Division of Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP).

 

Member, Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI).