Kartheik Iyer, Ph.D.

Kartheik Iyer joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics as a Flatiron Research Fellow in September 2025, and works at the intersection of astrophysics (galaxy evolution, large observational surveys, star formation histories) and machine learning (astrostatistics, interpretable ML, latent spaces and model building). He earned his Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from Rutgers University, and has been a Dunlap Fellow at Toronto and a Hubble Fellow at Columbia prior to joining the Flatiron Institute. In addition to research, he is passionate about teaching, outreach, and developing open source codes such as Pathfinder, which leverages large models to better help astronomers find publications and keep track of research.