Kiersten Boley
Kiersten is a Ph.D. Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her research broadly focuses on the impacts of elemental abundances on planet formation and evolution. Aside from her research, she is actively involved in DEI efforts and public outreach. She is one-quarter of a grad-student-led astronomy podcast, Astro [sound] bites, which breaks down current astronomy research for undergrads and the public.
Atalia Navarro Boullosa
Atalia is a PhD student at Universidad de Guanajuato, currently working with \ell boson stars as dark matter. In particular, she uses a sample of LBSG for Bayesian analysis and parameter estimation. She’s interested in general aspects of data science and data engineering. She has also participated as an organizer and instructor at events to introduce women to IT and data science.
Tatiana Acero Cuellar
Tatiana is a first-year graduate student in Physics at the University of Delaware. She is interested in gravitational waves, their counterparts, and transient and variable stars. She has some experience working with the output of the difference image analysis process and machine learning models.
Marcus DuPont
Marcus DuPont is a finishing PhD student at New York University and incoming Lyman Spitzer Jr. Fellow + Future Faculty in the Physical Sciences Fellow at Princeton University. He is interested in computational gas dynamics with a focus on cataclysmic explosions such as supernovae (SNe), gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), X-ray flashes (XRFs), and Fast Blue Optical Transients (FBOTs).
Nicole Firestone
Nicole Firestone is an astrophysics PhD candidate at Rutgers University. She works with Lyman Alpha emitting galaxies, which are nearly dust-free young, low-mass, strongly star-forming galaxies with distinct emission line features. By discovering and studying large, uniform populations of Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies at different periods in cosmological history, Nicole aims to better understand galaxy evolution and put better constraints on cosmological parameters.
Soumyodipta Karmakar
Soumyodipta Karmakar is a 2nd year PhD student at the University of New Mexico’s Physics and Astronomy department. His research interests include self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), dark matter haloes, and Milky Way satellites. He is currently trying to build a model for the Milky Way satellite population to study dark matter physics.
Ashod Khederlarian
Ashod is a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh. He is broadly interested in survey simulations, photometric redshifts, and galaxy evolution. Currently, he is working on adding realistic emission lines to galaxies in mock surveys (e.g. for LSST) by using DESI data.
Yaeji Kim
Yaeji is a Ph.D. student at Auburn University. She specializes in numerically analyzing the structural conditions of small bodies such as asteroids (i.e., NEAs) and Kuiper Best objects by impact-induced disturbances or the tidal effect.
Jake Kurlander
Jake uses simulations to debias minor planet surveys. He works with the Minor Planet Center at Harvard, DiRAC at the University of Washington, and anyone else who wants to help!
Megan Newsome
Megan Newsome is a PhD student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UC Santa Barbara. Her work with the Las Cumbres Observatory uncovers supermassive black holes and their environments in quiescent galaxies by analyzing tidal disruption events.
Peter Onubi Offor
Peter is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is interested in fast transients and time-domain astronomy. Recently, Offor used the Fourier analysis method to determine scientifically plausible periods from raw light curves. He is openly interested in machine learning applications for detecting and characterizing exoplanets.
Niamh O’Sullivan
Niamh is a first-year PhD student at the University of Oxford. Her research looks into disentangling stellar signals from planetary signals while using the radial velocity method to find habitable planets. Her other research interests include stellar formation and binary stars.
Rayna Rampalli
Rayna is a graduate student at Dartmouth College. She is interested in using photometric and spectroscopic surveys to understand exoplanet, stellar, and Galactic evolution and how they inform each other.
Jonathan Roberts
Jonathan Roberts is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Northwestern University. He is interested in machine learning techniques and their applications in astronomy. He is interested in gravitational waves, black holes, supernovae, and neutron stars.
Tony Rodriguez
Tony Rodriguez is an astrophysics graduate student at Caltech. He studies compact object binaries, which are systems that harbor a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole. He is interested in machine learning applications to discover and characterize more of these systems in the large datasets of the next decade.
Cyndie Russeeawon
Cyndie is a Ph.D. student at Rhodes University in South Africa. Her research focuses on improving the correction of direction-dependent ionospheric effects in radio interferometric data.
Sabina Sagynbayeva
Sabina is a graduate student at Stony Brook University, originally from Kazakhstan. She mostly studies planet formation using hydrodynamical simulations, but she is also interested in statistical problems and Gaussian Processes.
Theo Schutt
Theo is a PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. They study the instrumental effects of the Dark Energy Camera and LSST Camera and their impact on weak gravitational lensing measurements.
Vernon Wetzell
Vernon is a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. His previous work includes galaxy cluster cosmology, X-ray astronomy, and stellar proper motions. He is currently assisting in the development of Bayesian Fourier Domain (BFD) weak lensing measurements, an exciting new method of retrieving cosmological shear from optical surveys using weak gravitational lensing.
Suzanne Zhang
Suzanne is a third-year graduate student at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy. Her primary interest lies in instrumentation, particularly developing new adaptive optics techniques to improve the image quality of telescopes. She is also interested in direct imaging of exoplanets and ultracool dwarfs.