Group

I collaborate closely with Jeff Newman and Rachel Bezanson on applying statistics and machine learning methods to photometric redshift estimation and galaxy evolution studies.

Students

Graduate

Yoquelbin Salcedo	Ashod Khederlarian	Finian Ashmead

Former Students

Graduate

• Biprateep Dey
  • University of Pittsburgh (2018 - 2024)
  • Cosmic Cartography: Photometric Redshifts for Next-Generation Sky Surveys
  • Next Position: Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Toronto + CITA Postdoctoral Fellowship + Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Troy Raen
  • University of Pittsburgh (2019 - 2022)
  • Transients in the Event Streams of Large Astronomical Surveys
  • Next Position: Application Developer at IPAC/Caltech
• Catherine Fielder
  • University of Pittsburgh (2018 - 2022)
  • Constraining the Milky Way’s Ultraviolet-to-Infrared SED with Gaussian Process Regression
  • Next Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Arizona
• Quanbin (Eric) Ma
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Machine Learning Department (2017)
  • Dimensionality Reduction of Astronomical Spectroscopic Data Using Autoencoders
  • Next Position: Software Engineer at Facebook

Undergraduate

• Emma Moran
  • University of Pittsburgh (2023 - present)
  • Understanding Deep Learning Photometric Redshift Performance Across Color Space
• Katie Mack
  • University of Pittsburgh (2021 - 2022)
  • The Fundamental Metallicity Relation at Intermediate Redshifts
• Zach Lewis
  • University of Pittsburgh (2019 - 2022)
  • The Gas-Phase Mass-Metallicity Relation for Massive Galaxies at z∼0.7 with the LEGA-C Survey
  • Next Position: Astronomy Ph.D. Student at the University of Wisconsin
• Ian Cooper
  • University of Pittsburgh (2016)
  • SNIa hosts in MaNGA
  • Next Position: Geophysics Ph.D. Student at Boston College

High School

• Mariah Jones
  • Baldwin High School (2020 - 2021)
  • The Mass-Metallicity Relation at Intermediate Redshifts
  • Press:
    • Trib Live 2020-12-02 “Baldwin senior collaborates on astrophysics and metallicity research at Pitt”
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2021-02-27 “Baldwin High School student goes from women’s shelter to full ride scholarship for astrophysics”
    • Good Black News 2021-05-22 “Mariah Jones, 18, Goes from Women’s Shelter in Pittsburgh to Full Ride Scholarship for Astrophysics at Vassar”
    • Today 2021-06-11 “How 1 high school senior is defying the odds and shooting for the stars”
  • Next Position: Undergraduate Student at Vassar College