FASTLAB
(Federica's AstroSTatistics Lab)
Welcome to FASTLab, a research group dedicated to the exploration of transient astrophysics through the lens of data science and astrostatistics. Our mission is to leverage advanced statistical and computational techniques to deepen our understanding of the universe and its myriad phenomena.
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Automated detection of light echoes
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Data-driven photometric templates for stripped envelope supernovae
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Transient detection without template subtraction
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Federica Bianco
(she/her)
Stirring this boat in all directions. Astrophysicist, Data Scientist.
Somayeh Khakpash
(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...
Xiaolong Li
(he/him)
Xiaolong 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.
Riley Clarke
(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.
Willow Fox Fortino
(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.
Tatiana Acero-Cuellar
(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.
Siddharth Chaini
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Shar Daniels
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Emmanuel Chinkaka
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Kopo
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Ciarra Coston
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We are always looking for talented and motivated students and postdoctoral researchers to join our team. If you are interested in working with us, please get in touch!