Research
My research activities concern cosmology. My main research interest is dark energy. Recently, I am especially interested in extracting the dark energy constraints from the large scale structure of the universe.
Education
B.S.: Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
2003
Physics, National Taiwan
University, Taiwan. 2003 (double major)
M.S.: Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
2006
Thesis title: Inhomogeneity-Induced Cosmic Acceleration in a Dust Universe
Advisor: Prof. Y-W HWang
Ph.D.: Physcis & Astronomy, The University of
Oklahoma, U.S.A. 2011;
Dissertation title: Probing Dark Energy Using Galaxy Clustering Data
Advisor: Prof. Yun Wang
Positions Held
• Research Associate, Dept. of Physics
& Astronomy, Univ. of Oklahoma (2011-present)
• Teaching/Research Assistant, Dept. of Physics
& Astronomy, Univ. of Oklahoma (2006-2011)
• Research Assistant, Inst. of Astronomy &
Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, (2006)
• Research Assistant, Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan
University, (2004-2005)
• Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan
University, (2003-2004)
Awards
• Robert E. and Mary B. Sturgis Scholarship, (2008)
• The Bronze Medal in International Physics Olympiad (IPHO),
(1998)
• The recipient of the Wu Chien-Shiung Science Award, (1998)
• The third prize by the nation-wide Mathematics Contest,
(1997)
• The Silver Medal by the local Mathematics Contest, (1995)
Publications
1. “A Comparative Study of Dark Energy Constraints from Current Observational Data”, by Yun Wang, Chia-Hsun Chuang, and Pia Mukherjee, arXiv:1109.3172, accepted by Physical Review D
2. “Measurements of H(z) and D_A(z) from the Two-Dimensional Two-Point Correlation Function of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Luminous Red Galaxies”, by Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yun Wang, arXiv:1102.2251, submit to MNRAS
3. “A Robust Distance Measurement and Dark Energy Constraints from the Spherically-Averaged Correlation Function of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Luminous Red Galaxies”, by Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yun Wang, Maddumage Don P. Hemantha, arXiv:1008.4822, accepted by MNRAS
4. “Inhomogeneity-induced cosmic acceleration in a dust Universe”, by Chia-Hsun Chuang, Je-An Gu, W-Y. P. Hwang, Class. Quantum Grav. 25, 175001 (2008) (TOPCITE=50+ on SPIRES)