Team | Fedebianco

FASTlab
(Federica AstroSTatistics Lab)

federica bianco

Principal Investigator

(she/her)

stirring this boat in all directions. Astrophysicst, Data Scienctist.

fbb.space

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Riley Clarke

Phd Candidate

(he/him)

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.

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Tatiana Cuellar

MSc. Candidate

(she/her)

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.

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Somayeh Khakpash

Post Doctoral Researcher

(she/her)

Somayeh works on generating templates for stripped-envelope supernovae using Gaussian Processes. She is an expert in microlensing and machine learning.

She loves reading and traveling!

currently working on...

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Willow Fox Fortino

Phd Candidate

(she/her)

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.

Siddarth Chaini

Ph.D. Candidate

(he/him)

Siddarth is finding optimal similarity metrics to classify different astrophysical variables and transients rapidly and accurately.

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Xiaolong Li

Phd Candidate

(he/him)

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.

Shar Daniels

Ph.D.. Candidate

(they/them)

Shar is applying neural networks to continuous readout astronomical images, where one of the spatial axes tracks time, to explore the subsecond astrophysical domain.