CHASC International Center for Astrophysics
Founded in 1997, the CHASC International Center for Astrostatistics is a collaboration of statisticians and astronomers around the world. CHASC reseraches develop statistical methods, computational techniques, and freely available software to address outstanding inferential problems in high-energy astrophysics and in solar physics.
CHASC Statisticians:
- David van Dyk, Imperial College London
- Sara Algeri, University of Minnesota
- Max Autenrieth, Imperial College London
- Yang Chen, University of Michigan
- Thomas Lee, University of California, Davis
- Xiao Li Meng, Harvard University
- Taeyoung Park, Yonsei University
- David Stenning, Simon Fraser University
- Hyungsuk Tak, Penn State University
CHASC Astronomers:
- Doug Burke, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Axel Donath, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Vinay Kashyap, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Kaisey Mandel, Cambridge University
- Herman Marshall, MIT Kavli Institute
- Rafael Martinez-Galarza, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Aneta Siemiginowska, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Andreas Zezas, University of Crete
- Andy Ptak, GSFC
- Saku Vrtilek, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
CHASC PhD Students:
- Josh Ingram (New College of Florida/CMU)
- Lito Konidari (Imperial)
- Noah Kochanski (Michigan)
- Siyang Li (Imperial)
- Victor Samuel Perez Diaz (Harvard-SEAS/CfA)
- Pratyush Singh (BITS-Pilani, Goa)
- Qiyuan Johnny Wang (Columbia/TAMU)
- Jue Wang (UC Davis)
- Youwei Yan (Simon Fraser)
- Haoming Zhao (Columbia)
- Di Zhang (UC Irvine)
- Xiangyu Zhang (Minnesota)
- Robert Zimmerman (Toronto)
Former CHASC Affiliates and Researchers:
- James Chiang, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Alanna Connors, Eureka Scientific
- Jeremy Drake, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Peter Freeman, Carnegie Mellon
- Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University
- Rima Izem, Novartis
- David Jones, Amazon
- Jason Kramer, University of California, Irvine
- Pavlos Protopapas, Harvard University
- Adam Roy, Revision Optics
- Alex Young, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Yue Wu, University of Washington
Former CHASC Postdoctoral Researchers:
- Alex Geringer-Sameth, Imperial College London
- Brandon Kelly, Goodyear
- Hyunsook Lee, Lam Research Korea
- Hector McKimm, Goldman Sachs
Former CHASC PhD Students:
- CJ Zijin Shen (Harvard 2000), Head of Options Trading, Virtu Financial, NY
- Chris Hans (Harvard AB 2001), Associate Professor, Ohio State University
- Rostislav S. Protassov (Harvard 2003) Director, Citigroup, NY
- David Esch (Harvard 2003), Director of Research, New Frontier Advisors, MA
- Hosung Kang (Harvard 2005), Head of Research, LINE Investment Technologies, Korea
- Yaming Yu (Harvard 2005), Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
- Taeyoung Park (Harvard 2006), Professor, Yonsei University, Korea
- Jingchen Liu (Harvard 2008), Professor, Columbia University
- Alan Burton Lenarcic (Harvard 2009), US Securities and Exchange Commission, NY
- Paul David Baines (Harvard 2010), VP of Product and Engineering, QC Ware, CA
- Xianchao Xie (Harvard 2011), Two Sigma Investments
- Li Zhu (Harvard 2012), Marshall Wace, UK
- Victoria Liublinska Prince (Harvard 2013), Data Scientist, Takeda, MA
- Nathan Stein (Harvard 2013), Data Scientist, Spotify, NY
- Alex Blocker (Harvard 2013), CTO and Chief Data Scientist, Foresite Labs, CA
- Jin Xu (UC Irvine 2014), Director of Machine Learning, Adobe, CA
- Shandong Zhao (UC Irvine 2014), Statistician, Little Red Book, CA
- Raymond Wong (UC Davis 2014), Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
- Irina Udaltsova (UC Davis 2014), Senior Statistician, Pratt & Whitney, CT
- David Stenning (UC Irvine 2015), Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
- Lazhi Wang (Harvard 2015), Two Sigma, NY
- Dan Cervone (Harvard, 2015), Co-Founder and Principal Data Scientist, Zelus Analytics, CO
- David Jones (Harvard 2016), Amazon
- Hyungsuk Tak (Harvard 2016), Assistant Professor, Penn State University
- Xiyun Jiao (Imperial 2016), Assistant Professor, SUSTech, China
- Yang Chen (Harvard 2017), Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
- Xufei Wang (Harvard 2017), Two Sigma, NY
- Minjie Fan (UC Davis 2017), Software Engineer, Meta, CA
- Qi Gao (UC Davis 2017), Senior Data Scientist, Faire, CA
- Vasileios Stampoulis (Imperial 2018), Quantitative Trader, ISAM, UK
- Sara Algeri (Imperial 2018), Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
- Chunzhe Zhang (UC Davis 2018), Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn, CA
- Shijing Si (Imperial 2018), Sr Lecturer, Shanghai International Studies University, China
- Luis Campos (Harvard 2019), Engineering Manager, Etsy, NY
- Shihao Yang (Harvard 2019)
- Katy McKeough (Harvard 2020), Senior Analyst, Red Sox, MA
- Andrea Sottosanti (Padua 2020), Assistant Professor, University of Padua
- Chang Goh (Imperial 2020)
- Xixi Yu (Imperial 2021), Vice President, Citibank, UK
- Cong Xu (UC Davis 2021), Root Insurance, Columbus, OH
- Max Autenrieth (Imperial 2023), Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperial College
- Jue Wang (UC Davis, 2024),
- Antoine Meyer (Imperial 2024), Quantitative Researcher, Man AHL, UK