CHASC International Center for Astrophysics
Founded in 1997, the California-Harvard Astrostatistics Collaboration (CHASC) is a collaboration of statisticians and astronomers at Harvard University, the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Imperial College London, and the Universities of California at Irvine and Davis. The reseraches in CHASC develop statistical methods, computational techniques, and freely available software to address outstanding inferential problems in high-energy astrophysics and in solar physics.
CHASC Faculty and Researchers:
- David van Dyk, Imperial College London
- David Jones, SAMSI Fellow
- Vinay Kashyap, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Thomas Lee, University of California, Davis
- Kaisey Mandel, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Xiao Li Meng, Harvard University
- Aneta Siemiginowska, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- David Stenning, SAMSI Fellow
- Hyungsuk Tak , SAMSI Fellow
- Yaming Yu, University of California, Irvine
- Andreas Zezas, Crete
CHASC Affiliates:
- Peter Freeman, Carnegie Mellon
- Herman Marshall, MIT Kavli Institute
- Taeyoung Park, Yonsei University
- Pavlos Protopapas, Harvard University
- Alex Young, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
CHASC PhD Students:
- Sara Algeri (Imperial)
- Luis Campos (Harvard)
- Robin Gong (Harvard)
- Zhirui Hu (Harvard)
- Katy McKeough (Harvard)
- Shijing Si (Imperial)
- Vasileios Stampoulis (Imperial)
- Xufei Wang (Harvard)
- Shihao Yang (Harvard)
- Xixi Yu (Imperial)
Former CHASC Affiliates and Researchers:
- James Chiang, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Alanna Connors, Eureka Scientific
- Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University
- Rima Izem, FDA/CDER
- Jason Kramer, University of California, Irvine
- Adam Roy, Revision Optics
Former CHASC Postdoctoral Researchers:
- Brandon Kelly, Goodyear
- Hyunsook Lee, Lam Research Korea
Former CHASC PhD Students:
- CJ Zijin Shen (Harvard 2000), Head of Options Trading, Jump Trading, LLC
- Chris Hans (Harvard AB 2001), Associate Professor, Ohio State
- Rostislav S. Protassov, (Harvard 2003) Director, Citigroup
- David Esch (Harvard 2003), Director of Research, New Frontier Advisors
- Hosung Kang (Harvard 2005), Quantitative Analyst, Graham Capital Management
- Yaming Yu (Harvard 2005), Associate Professor, Univ of California, Irvine
- Taeyoung Park (Harvard 2006), Associate Professor, Yonsei Univ., Korea
- Alan Burton Lenarcic (Harvard 2009), US Securities and Exchange Commission, Manhattan
- Paul David Baines (Harvard 2010), Wise.io
- Xianchao Xie (Harvard 2011), Two Sigma Investments
- Li Zhu (Harvard 2012), Marshall Wace
- Jingchen Liu (Harvard 2008), Associate Professor, Columbia
- Victoria Liublinska (Harvard 2013), Research Analyst, Harvard
- Nathan Stein (Harvard 2013), Spotify
- Alex Blocker (Harvard 2013), GRAIL
- Jin Xu (UC Irvine 2014), Adobe
- Shandong Zhao (UC Irvine 2014), Apple
- Raymond Wong (UC Davis 2014), Asst. Professor, Texas A&M
- Irina Udaltsova (UC Davis, 2014), UC Davis
- David Stenning (UC Irvine, 2015), SAMSI Fellow
- Lazhi Wang (Harvard, 2015), Two Sigma Investments
- Dan Cervone (Harvard, 2015), Los Angeles Dodgers (Sr Analyst)
- David Jones (Harvard, 2016), SAMSI Fellow
- Hyungsuk Tak (Harvard, 2016), SAMSI Fellow
- Xiyun Jiao (Imperial, 2016), Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London
- Yang Chen (Harvard, 2017), Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
- Minjie Fan (UC Davis, 2017), Google
- Qi Gao (UC Davis, 2017), Stich Fix