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Hi there πŸ‘‹

I'm a research scientist/engineer for LINCC-Frameworks (LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing). I am based at DiRAC Institute, University of Washington.

LINCC-Frameworks

LINCC - Frameworks aims to 🌱 grow and develop 🌱 software for the analysis of the large amounts of data expected from upcoming surveys, such as LSST, Euclid, Roman, and Schmidt Observatory System.

I am currently guiding the development βš™οΈLSDB βš™οΈ; the python package for efficient and scalable πŸ”¨ analysis πŸ”¨ and 🎯 cross-matching 🎯 of astronomy catalogs. We are particulary excited about how we use βš™οΈnested packageβš™οΈ to enable time-domain analysis.

Find here the demo we made for the review of the project in February 2025. And check out lsdb.io.

Previous work

Commissioning of Rubin Observatory

I was a member of the science verification team for construction of Rubin Observatory πŸ”­. I was working on the analysis of difference imagining pipeline using the data from the Rubin commissioning. See a notebook prepared for a May 2024 sprint for the verification of the observation rehersal data.

Commissioning of Prime Focus Spectrograph

I worked on commissioning the Prime Focus Spectrograph at Subaru telescope πŸ”­ as part of the data reduction pipeline team - focusing on 2D Point spread function modeling.

Science

My scientific work focuses on variability, AGN, and star-formation physics (papers here).

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  1. astronomy-commons/lsdb astronomy-commons/lsdb Public

    LSDB - python tool for scalable analysis of large catalogs

    Python 52 20

  2. lincc-frameworks/nested-pandas lincc-frameworks/nested-pandas Public

    Efficient Pandas representation for nested associated datasets.

    Python 24 9

  3. AGN-Going-Down AGN-Going-Down Public

    Code and data supporting paper: Observational Nonstationarity of AGN variability: The only way is down! ( 2020ApJ...889L..29C)

    Jupyter Notebook

  4. AGN-Variability-Simulations AGN-Variability-Simulations Public

    Code supporting paper: A forward modeling approach to AGN variability – method description and early applications (2019ApJ...883..139S)

    Cuda 3 2

  5. Main-Sequence-Variability Main-Sequence-Variability Public

    Code and data supporting paper: Stochastic modeling of star-formation histories I: the scatter of the star-forming main sequence (2019MNRAS.487.3845C)

    Jupyter Notebook 2

  6. Gender_Bias Gender_Bias Public

    Code and data supporting paper: Quantitative evaluation of gender bias in astronomical publications from citation counts (2017NatAs...1E.141C)

    Mathematica 1