Federica's AstroSTatistics Lab
We study explosive transients in the sky and develop methods to analyze large datasets in astronomy and urban science.
Our research focuses on explosive transients in the sky, particularly supernovae and their progenitor systems. We develop methods to analyze large datasets from time-domain surveys.
We apply data science methods to urban problems, working on projects ranging from criminal justice to public health and transportation.
Stirring this boat in all directions. Astrophysicst, Data Scientist.
Post Doctoral Researcher
Somayeh works on generating templates for stripped-envelope supernovae using Gaussian Processes.
She is an expert in microlensing and machine learning. She enjoys reading and traveling.
PhD Candidate
Xiaolong works on evaluating the performance of LSST's observing strategy and building a platform for the detection of light echoes.
PhD Candidate
Riley works on stellar time-domain data processing and detrending with Principal Component Analysis.
He grew up in Fairbanks, AK and likes biking, hiking, skiing, playing music (trumpet & guitar), and cooking. He also enjoys nerd stuff like video games, anime & manga, science fiction/fantasy, and tabletop role-playing games.
PhD Candidate
Willow works on modeling stripped envelope supernova light curves.
She enjoys playing the guitar with mediocrity, is a beginner pointillism artist, has a small fountain pen and ink collection, and is an amateur lock picker.
MSc Candidate
Tatiana works on CNN models to classify transients and discover new Astrophysical Objects.
She is a Colombian physicist that loves animals a lot and because she loves them she doesn't eat them. She is on the way to being a scientist.
PhD Candidate
Siddharth is finding optimal similarity metrics to classify different astrophysical variables and transients rapidly and accurately.
PhD Candidate
Shar is applying neural networks to continuous readout astronomical images, where one of the spatial axes tracks time, to explore the subsecond astrophysical domain.
Somayeh Khakpash, Federica B. Bianco, Maryam Modjaz, Willow F. Fortino, Alexander Gagliano, Conor Larison, and Tyler A. Pritchard
Riley W. Clarke, James R. A. Davenport, John Gizis, Melissa L. Graham, Xiaolong Li, Willow Fortino, et al.
Chaini, Siddharth; Mahabal, Ashish; Kembhavi, Ajit; Bianco, Federica B.