Student participants
Please click on the links to see the reports from the students of the 2019 program.
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Name: Connor Bottrell | Afilliation: University of Victoria | Project Title: Deep learning classifications of streams and shells in galaxies from the Hyper-Suprime Cam DR1 |
| PhD Advisor: Luc Simard & Sara Ellison | Research Interests: Galaxy interactions, morphologies and kinematics; machine learning . |
Project Advisors: Ryan Hausen, Helena Domíngez Sánchez, Ivana Damjanov, Marc Huertas-Company, Kathryn V. Johnston, Brant Robertson | |
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Name: Dezso Ribli | Afilliation: Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary | Project Title: Exploring domain adaptation with adversarial networks for galaxy images |
| PhD Advisor: Istvan Csabai | Research Interests: Weak gravitational lensing; computer vision | Project Advisors: Helena Dominguez-Sanchez, March Huertas-Company, Yuan-Sen Ting | |
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Name: Claire Guilloteau | Afilliation: IRAP, Université de Toulouse | Project Title: Generative Networks For Emulating Synthetic Sky Images |
| PhD Advisor: Olivier Berné, Nicolas Dobigeon, Thomas Oberlin | Research Interests: Data fusion for high dimensional infrared astronomical imaging | Project Advisors: Francois Lanusse, Nesar Ramachandra, Sultan Hassan, Yuan-Sen Ting, Marc Huertas-Company, Brant Robertson, Alexie Leauthaud, Song Huang | |
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Name: Kate Storey-Fisher | Afilliation: NYU | Project Title: Anomaly Detection in Hyper Suprime-Cam Images with Generative Adversarial Networks |
| PhD Advisor: David Hogg | Research Interests: Large-scale structure from galaxy surveys, cosmological simulations | Project Advisors: Alexie Leauthaud, Marc Huertas-Company | |
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Name: Lorenzo Zanisi | Afilliation: University of Southampton | Project Title: Comparing simulations and observations with deep generative models |
| PhD Advisor: Francesco Shankar and Andrea Lapi | Research Interests: Numerical modeling of galaxy formation and evolution, Medical applications of computational methods . | Project Advisors: Marc Huertas-Company, Francois Lanusse, Joel Primack | |
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Name: Madeline Lucey | Afilliation: UT Austin | Project Title: Photometric Selection of Red Clump Stars with a Mixed Density Network |
| PhD Advisor: Keith Hawkins | Research Interests: Stellar spectroscopy and Galactic archaeology |
Project Advisors:Yuan-Sen Ting, Nesar Ramachandra | |
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Name: Mike Walmsley | Afilliation: Oxford University | Project Title: Reliable AGN detection and flux estimation from photometry |
| PhD Advisor: Chris Lintott | Research Interests: Crowdsourcing, human/machine collaboration, Active learning, Galaxy evolution |
Project Advisors: Sotiria Fotopolou, Ivana Damjanov, Francois Lanusse, Nesar Ramachandra, Nick Ross | |
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Name: Sara Webb | Afilliation: Swinburne University of Technology | Project Title: Unsupervised Machine learning for Transient Discovery and Anomoly Detection from Fast Cadenced Optical Light Curves |
| PhD Advisor: Jeff Cooke | Research Interests: Time domain astronomy, flare stars, kilonoave, extra-galactic transients, machine learning for real time data analysis. | Project Advisors:Michelle Lochner | |
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Name:Szymon Nakoneczny | Afilliation: National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw | Project Title: Toward 1% calibration of CMB Lensing Cluster Mass Estimate with Deep Learning |
| PhD Advisor: Agnieszka Pollo, Maciej Bilicki | Research Interests: Data science in astronomy; Quasar detection in photometric surveys; Observational cosmology | Project Advisors: D. Nagai, S. Hassan, F. Lanusse. | |
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Name: Paulo-Henrique Barchi | Afilliation: Brandeis U., INPE-Brazil | Project Title: Extracting the Slime Mold Graph from the Cosmic Web |
| PhD Advisor: Marcelle Soares-Santos, Reinaldo Roberto Rosa, Reinaldo Ramos de Carvalho | Research Interests: Machine/Deep Learning and Data Science applied to Astrophysics | Project Advisors: J. Burchett, O. Elek, A. Forbes, J. X. Prochaska | |
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Name: Ting-Yun Cheng. | Afilliation: University of Nottingham | Project Title: Vector-quantized variational encoder on emulating galaxy images and unsupervised machine learning classification for galaxy morphology |
| PhD Advisor: Christopher, J. Conselice and Alfonso Araǵon-Salamanca | Research Interests: Galaxy morphology, galaxy evolution, machine learning, dark matter distribution, strong lensing | Project Advisors: Marc Huertas-Company, Brant Robertson, Nesar Ramachandra, Francois Lanusse | |
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Name: Daniel Muthukrishna | Afilliation: Cambridge University | Project Title: Real-time detection of anomalies in large-scale transient surveys |
| PhD Advisor:Kaisey Mandel & Gautham Narayan | Research Interests: Supernovae, transients, supernova cosmology, classification algorithms, neural networks | Project Advisors: Michelle Lochner | |
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Name: Humna Awan | Afilliation: Rutgers U. | Project Title: Extracting 3D Galaxy Shape From 2D Image Properties Using Random Forests |
| PhD Advisor:Eric Gawiser | Research Interests: Cosmology with large galaxy surveys | Project Advisors: Alexie Leauthaud, Song Huang | |
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Name: Emma Platts | Afilliation: The University of Cape Town | Project Title: Constraining the dispersion measure of the galactic halo using FRBs and density estimation |
| PhD Advisor: Amanda Weltman and Jonathan Shock | Research Interests: Constraining cosmological parameters, early universe and bounces, fast radio bursts | Project Advisors: J. Xavier Prochaska and Casey Law |