- April 2025: Our paper on measuring primordial non-Gaussianity in Quaia, led by my collaborators Giulio Fabbian and David Alonso, was posted to arXiv!
- April 2025: I made the arduous journey over to UC Berkeley and gave the BCCP Cosmology Seminar.
- April 2025: I visited the University of Washington and gave the Astronomy Colloquium.
- February 2025: I gave an invited talk at the Cosmology on the Steep Rise conference at the Sexten Center for Astrophysics.
- January 2025: I gave a KIPAC tea talk on our work on Quaia.
- December 2024: I joined DESI and attended the Collaboration Meeting in Cancún!
- December 2024: I gave the Cosmology Seminar at the McWilliams Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
- October 2024: Our paper on measuring the matter-radiation equality scale in Quaia, led by my collaborator David Alonso, was posted to arXiv!
- October 2024: I helped organize, and gave a talk at, the inaugural Stanford Center for Decoding the Universe forum.
- September 2024: I moved to the Bay Area and started as a Kavli Fellow at KIPAC at Stanford!
- August 2024: I wrapped up my position at DIPC—but will keep collaborating with the BACCO group!
- June 2024: I gave the seminar at IFAE, and visited both IFAE and ICE-CSIC in Barcelona.
- May 2024: I gave the DIPC Seminar on our work on the Quaia quasar catalog.
- February 2024: I gave the Astro Seminar at Cardiff.
- February 2024: I gave the Cosmology Seminar at Oxford.
- December 2023: I gave the GRAPPA colloquium at the University of Amsterdam.
- November 2023: I attended the IX Meeting on Fundamental Cosmology in La Laguna in the Canary Islands, and visited Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
- October 2023: I started my postdoc at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) with Prof. Raúl Angulo!
- July–August 2023: I took a much-needed post-PhD break! Highly recommend.
- June 2023: We submitted our papers on the Quaia quasar catalog and a cosmological analysis with it!
- May 2023: I defended my PhD and became a doctor! I am so grateful to my entire community who got me here—especially my advisor, David W. Hogg. Check out my full acknowledgements (and the rest of my thesis, if you’re so inclined) here.
- May 2023: I was invited to give a talk at the Cosmic Connections Symposium on Astrophysics x ML at the Flatiron Institute.
- May 2023: I attended the Cosmology with the Large-Scale structure of the Universe (CosmoLSS) workshop at the Donostia International Physics Center in Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain (my future institution!).
- April 2023: I gave a CfA seminar at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics.
- March 2023: I attended the Coworking Retreat on Equivariant Machine Learning at Johns Hopkins University.
- March 2023: I gave a talk on my equivariant cosmology project at the Flatiron CCA’s Tri-State Cosmology X Data Science meeting.
- February 2023: I virtually attended the Beyond-2pt Statistics Data Challenge meeting at the University of Arizona.
- February 2023: I accepted postdoctoral positions at the Donostia International Physics Center with Prof. Raúl Angulo and as a Kavli Fellow at Stanford KIPAC! I’m so grateful for everyone who supported me throughout job season.
- February 2023: I attended the BASP (Biomedical and Astrophysical Signal Processing) Frontiers 2023 in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, and won a best contribution award for my talk on equivariant machine learning for cosmological simulations!
- January 2023: I gave a three-minute talk at the NYC astro community’s GothamFest, hosted at Flatiron CCA.
- January 2023: I attended AAS241 in Seattle, where I gave a dissertation talk, repped Astrobites, and saw lots of great talks.
- December 2022: I visited Argonne National Lab and Fermilab in the Chicago area.
- November 2022: I gave cosmology seminars at UC Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley Labs and at Stanford KIPAC.
- November 2022: I spoke at the Flatiron CCA’s Galaxy Formation meeting about our project on equivariant ML for the galaxy–halo connection.
- October 2022: We submitted our Aemulus VI paper!
- July–August 2022: I visited MPIA in Heidelberg, where I worked with Hans-Walter Rix and David W. Hogg on the Gaia quasars.
- June 2022: I attended EAS2022, the European Astronomical Society meeting, in Valencia, Spain, where I co-organized the special session Critical Challenges for Machine Learning in Astronomy and gave two talks. (I also did the Astro Run!)
- June 2022: I participated in the Gaia Fête at Flatiron CCA.
- May 2022: I attended the Astronomical Software Workshop at Flatiron CCA.
- March 2022: I attended the workshop From Data to Software to Science with the Rubin Observatory LSST at Flatiron CCA.
- February 2022: I gave the grad student seminar at NYU on my work emulating galaxy clustering statistics.
- December 2021: I remotely gave an Early Career Researcher cosmology seminar at CosKASI on my emulation project.
- December 2021: I presented (in person!) at GothamFest 2021 at CCA.
- November 2021: I gave a remote talk at the Statistics & ML Journal Club at UToronto Astro on my GAN anomaly detection work.
- September 2021: Our paper on equivariant ML was accepted to NeurIPS 2021!
- September 2021: My work on anomalous galaxy detection with GANs in HSC was published.
- September 2021: I gave a remote talk at ML Club via the Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative at UCSC.
- August 2021: The project I worked on during my stint at the South African Astronomical Observatory on the CGM in the Simba simulations was published.
- August 2021: I presented on my work emulating beyond-standard clustering statistics at the Learn the Universe workshop at CCA.
- July 2021: I spoke (remotely) at the ML in Astronomy meeting at Western Sydney University, Australia, on my weird galaxy project.
- June 2021: My collaborator Abby Williams presented our work measuring gradients in clustering at AAS238.
- April 2021: I gave a virtual talk to Amateur Astronomers, Inc. in New Jersey on “How Galaxies Shed Light on Dark Matter”.
- January 2021: I gave a virtual seminar at the German Center for Cosmological Lensing on my correlation function estimator work.
- December 2020: I virtually attended NeurIPS 2020, where I co-presented a tutorial on ML for Astrophysics, and presented my work on GANs for anomaly detection at the ML4PS workshop.
- December 2020: I remotely gave the Center for Computational Astrophysics Thursday lunch talk.
- November 2020: I virtually gave the Princeton/IAS Cosmology Lunch Talk on “binning is sinning”.
- November 2020: I submitted my first first-author paper!
- August 2021: I gave a virtual talk at Astronomy on Tap, Kingston on “How To Grow Your Own Universe”.
- June 2020: I (remotely) attended ComSciCon, a workshop on science communication for graduate students.
- May 2020: I was awarded the NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) to fund the rest of my PhD!
- Feburary 2020: I passed my oral qualifying exam to become a PhD candidate!
- January 2020: I gave a research talk and led a science communication workshop at AAS235 in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
- December 2019: I was elected co-chair of our new grad student org at NYU, G-PHORCE (Graduate Physics Organization for Research, Culture, and Education).
- October 2019: I attended the dotAstronomy conference in Toronto (where I made the @arrrXiv twitter bot).
- September 2019: I presented at GothamFest, New York’s annual festival of astronomy talks.
- July 2019: I helped author a paper with Astrobites on the site as a model for education and SciComm.
- July-August 2019: I was a Kavli Student Fellow at the Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, on Machine Learning in the Era of Large Astronomical Surveys.
- May 2019: I attended the Emulation of Galaxy Clustering workshop at the CCAPP at Ohio State University.
- March-April 2019: I led a teaching team at the Professional Development Program’s Inquiry institute in Monterey, CA, and the Design Institute in Boulder, CO.
- December 2019: I completed the Advanced Science Communication Workshop at NYU’s Carter Journalism Institute.
- July 2018: I attended the Summer School on Large Scale Structure in Berlin.
- March-April 2018: I attended the PDP Inquiry institute in Monterey, CA, and the Design Institute in Houston, TX.
- December 2018: I completed the Science Communication Workshop at NYU’s Carter Journalism Institute.