FASTlab
(Federica AstroSTatistics Lab)
federica bianco
Principal Investigator
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Phd Candidate
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Riley works on stellar time-domain data processing and detrending with Principal Component Analysis
He grew up in Fairbanks, AK and like biking, hiking, skiing, playing music (trumpet & guitar), and cooking. He also enjoy nerd stuff like video games, anime & manga, science fiction/fantasy, and tabletop role-playing games.
MSc. Candidate
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Tatiana works on CNN models to classify transients and discover new Astrophysical Objects
She is a Colombian physicists that love animals a lot and because she loves them she doesn't eat them. She is on the way to being a scientist.
Post Doctoral Researcher
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Somayeh works on generating templates for stripped-envelope supernovae using Gaussian Processes. She is an expert in microlensing and machine learning.
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She loves reading and traveling!
Phd Candidate
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Willow works on modeling stripped envelope supernova light curves. (Heads up, this will potentially change within the week).
She enjoy playing the guitar with mediocrity, She is a beginner pointillism artist, She has a small fountain pen and ink collection, and she an amateur lock picker.
Undergraduate
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Gihane Rachid studies maximized efficiency of collecting spectra by investigating what the minimum possible resolution is at which supernovae spectra can still be classified correctly by artificially reducing the spectral resolution.
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In her free time she likes to garden, hike, and stargaze with my telescope.
Phd Candidate
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Xialong evaulates the performance of LSST's observing strategy. He is building a platform for the detection of light echoes, faint reflection of old stellar explosions.
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Ming Lian
MSc. Candidate
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Ming is developing a program for identifying fast transients.
Cyclist/soccer player/calligrapher/guitarist if physics did not steal him away from all that.
Siddharth Patel
Undergraduate
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Sid is working on creating an interface to access simulated LSST time series and sonify them.
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He likes to read classic books and play video games in his free time, especially enjoyed playing chess recently.
Alumni
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Julien Baur Postdoc 2018-2019 (Urban Science)
Umer Zubair MSc. 2019-2020 (Astro)
Desiderio Pilla MSc 2020 (Data Science)
Gabriella Cammarata 2017-2018 (Digital Design)
Bea Steers 2018 (Urban Science)
Jon Kastelan 2018 (Urban Science)
Chun Chieh Tsai 2018 (Urban Science)
Charlie Moffett 2018 (Urban Science)
Prince Abunku 2018 (Urban Science)
Isha Chaturvedi 2018 (Urban Science)
Guobing Chen 2018 (Urban Science)
Hrafnkell Hjörleifsson 2017 (Urban Science)
Michelle Manting Ho 2017 (Urban Science)
Christopher Prince 2017 (Urban Science)
Achilles E. A. Saxby 2017 (Urban Science)