Cosmology X Data Science

David Spergel joined the foundation in 2016 to lead its Center for Computational Astrophysics. He is an astrophysicist with research interests ranging from the search for planets around nearby stars to the shape of the universe.

Shirley Ho joined CCA in Summer 2018 as leader of the Cosmology X Data Science group (CDS). Her research interests have ranged from fundamental cosmological measurements to exoplanet statistics to utilizing machine learning to estimate how much dark matter is in the universe.

Justin Alsing joined the Centre for Computational Astrophysics in 2016 as a Flatiron research fellow in the statistical astronomy group. His broad research interests cover cosmology, theoretical astrophysics and astrostatistics, where he is principally concerned with developing ambitious and sophisticated methods for extracting information from…

Gabriella Contardo joined the foundation in July 2018 as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. She completed her PhD in machine learning at LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, where she worked on cost-sensitive prediction and meta-active learning problems…

Miles Cranmer is a graduate student at Princeton and spends half of his time at the CCA.

Stephen Feeney joined the foundation in 2016 as a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics, having previously worked at Imperial College and University College London. His research interests include observational cosmology, the cosmic microwave background, early-universe physics, machine learning and physical applications of…

Elena Giusarma joined the foundation in 2018 as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics.

Avery Kim is a first year graduate student at Columbia University working at crossings of theoretical and observational cosmology and galactic dynamics. At CCA, Kim works with Shirley Ho to uncover mysteries of the Universe by diving deep into data sets.

Elena Massara joined the Center for Computional Astrophysics as a Flatiron Research Fellow. Elena completed her PhD at SISSA and received her Masters in physics from University of Padua / University of Geneva.

Suvodip Mukherjee joined the foundation in September 2017 as a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. He works on theoretical and statistical aspects of a range of topics in cosmology, which includes cosmic microwave background, spectral distortions and large-scale structure.

Sigurd Naess joined the foundation in 2016 as an associate research scientist in the statistical astronomy group of the Center for Computational Astrophysics. His research focuses on analyzing cosmic microwave background data from experiments such as QUIET, ACT, PIXIE and the Simons Observatory.

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro joined the foundation in 2016 as a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. His research interests range from cosmology to galaxy formation and its work is focused on understanding the impact of massive neutrinos on the cosmological observables and on the…