Chao-Lin Kuo

Assistant Professor of Physics and SLAC

Phone: 650-736-7880

Room 346
Varian Physics Building
382 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4060

Research Interests

Professor Chao-Lin Kuo's group studies the most ancient light, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, emitted when the universe was in its infancy. The polarization in the CMB contains information on the birth of the universe (Inflation), as well as its subsequent evolution.

Professor Kuo is involved in both the cosmological interpretation and instrumentation/technology development. The group frequently adopts advanced experimental techniques, such as cryogenics, superconductivity, and low-noise measurements, to maximize detector's sensitivity to the faint CMB signal.

The ongoing projects are all CMB polarization experiments based at the South Pole:

BICEP/BICEP2/Keck Array: A series of degree-scale experiments targeting signatures of primordial gravitational waves with increasing sensitivity.
POLAR-1/POLAR Array: Few-arcminute-scale polarization experiments targeting both gravitational waves and gravitational lensing signatures.

Professor Kuo was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009, an MRI (Major Research Instrumentation) grant in 2010, and an NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award in 2011.

Career History

B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University, 1994.
Ph.D., Astrophysics, U.C. Berkeley, 2003.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), National Research Council postdoctoral fellow.
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford, and SLAC, 2008-
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 2009-

Group Members

Graduate Students:

Sarah Stokes
James E. Tolan
Wai-Ling Kimmy Wu
James Grayson

Postdoctoral Fellows:

R. Walter Ogburn (Ph.D. Stanford)
Zeeshan Ahmed (Ph.D. Caltech)

Research Associates:

Keith L. Thompson (Ph.D. U.T. Austin)
Ki Won Yoon (Ph.D. Caltech)

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