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Hello! I am an Astrophysicist with a strong interest in Data Science. I am an Associate Professor in the Physics Department at the CUNY NYC College of Technology and at the CUNY Graduate Center. In 2019-2020, I am on sabbatical at the Institut de Ciències del Cosmos at the University of Barcelona and I'm writing a textbook on Machine Learning techniques for Physics and Astronomy (but really, any discipline that uses the scientific method) for Princeton University Press. Please get in touch if you have ideas on awesome research problems and data sets I could use, or other suggestions!
I am also an associate member of the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute, a visiting research scientist in the Astrophysics Department at the American Museum of Natural History, a member of the CUNY Astro group, and a Harlow Shapley Visiting Lecturer for the American Astronomical Society. In 2018, I was named one of Italy's 50 most influential Women in Tech by InspiringFifty. In 2017, I was a recipient of the Feliks Gross Award for outstanding scholarship. You can check out my Google Scholar profile and read my papers here, or hear about my 2018 Strata talk and other ongoing projects where I use Machine Learning in Astronomy in an episode of "This Week in ML/AI". |
Recent News/Updates
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News Archive:
July 2019
I have been awarded $5,000 in Google Cloud platform credits! Group member and Ph.D. candidate Andy Lawler and I will use them to deploy several flavors of nested sampling algorithms to do model selection on galaxy star formation histories.
Group member Hashir Qureshi is off to his training apprenticeship at Amazon. Amaz(on)ing!
June/July 2019
I am teaching a summer school and leading a workshop/hackaton series in Machine Learning x Astronomy at the Center for Computational Astrophysics of the Flatiron Institute. All the school materials are on GitHub and lecture recordings are here on the YouTube channel of the Simons Foundation.
June 2019
Group member Harpreet Gaur starts her Data Science internship at Microsoft Research. Woot woot!
Honorary group member Christopher Lovell successfully defended his Ph. D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Lovell! We miss you!
May 2019
I am giving the Physics and Astronomy seminar at the University of Delaware, hosted by the great Federica Bianco.
March 2019
I am honored to be the Keynote speaker for the Finals Round of the New York City Science and Engineering Fair at the American Museum of Natural History.
January 2019
My review paper on Machine Learning in Astronomy is on arxiv and I gave a talk about it at the DarkMachines monthly group meeting.
December 2018
I'm super excited to have been named one of Italy's ``Inspiring 50", the 50 most influential Italian Women in Tech. Read the official press release here or the articles on Wired and Repubblica (in Italian).
I gave a keynote talk titled "Putting the Science in Data Science" at the Chief Data Officer Summit in New York on Dec 12.
November 2018
I gave an invited review on Machine Learning in Astronomy at the IAU meeting "Challenges in Panchromatic Modelling of Galaxies with Next Generation Facilities".
September 2018
I ran a tutorial session at Strata NYC on "Learning Machine Learning with Astronomy Data",
together with City Tech students Hashir Qureshi and Harpreet Gaur and graduate student Andy Lawler.
I talked about my Strata talk and other ongoing projects where I use Machine Learning and Astronomy with Sam Charrington at "This Week in ML/AI". Listen to the podcast here.
July 2019
I have been awarded $5,000 in Google Cloud platform credits! Group member and Ph.D. candidate Andy Lawler and I will use them to deploy several flavors of nested sampling algorithms to do model selection on galaxy star formation histories.
Group member Hashir Qureshi is off to his training apprenticeship at Amazon. Amaz(on)ing!
June/July 2019
I am teaching a summer school and leading a workshop/hackaton series in Machine Learning x Astronomy at the Center for Computational Astrophysics of the Flatiron Institute. All the school materials are on GitHub and lecture recordings are here on the YouTube channel of the Simons Foundation.
June 2019
Group member Harpreet Gaur starts her Data Science internship at Microsoft Research. Woot woot!
Honorary group member Christopher Lovell successfully defended his Ph. D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Lovell! We miss you!
May 2019
I am giving the Physics and Astronomy seminar at the University of Delaware, hosted by the great Federica Bianco.
March 2019
I am honored to be the Keynote speaker for the Finals Round of the New York City Science and Engineering Fair at the American Museum of Natural History.
January 2019
My review paper on Machine Learning in Astronomy is on arxiv and I gave a talk about it at the DarkMachines monthly group meeting.
December 2018
I'm super excited to have been named one of Italy's ``Inspiring 50", the 50 most influential Italian Women in Tech. Read the official press release here or the articles on Wired and Repubblica (in Italian).
I gave a keynote talk titled "Putting the Science in Data Science" at the Chief Data Officer Summit in New York on Dec 12.
November 2018
I gave an invited review on Machine Learning in Astronomy at the IAU meeting "Challenges in Panchromatic Modelling of Galaxies with Next Generation Facilities".
September 2018
I ran a tutorial session at Strata NYC on "Learning Machine Learning with Astronomy Data",
together with City Tech students Hashir Qureshi and Harpreet Gaur and graduate student Andy Lawler.
I talked about my Strata talk and other ongoing projects where I use Machine Learning and Astronomy with Sam Charrington at "This Week in ML/AI". Listen to the podcast here.