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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:

CHASC Astronomers:

CHASC PhD Students:

  1. Josh Ingram (New College of Florida/CMU)
  2. Lito Konidari (Imperial)
  3. Noah Kochanski (Michigan)
  4. Siyang Li (Imperial)
  5. Victor Samuel Perez Diaz (Harvard-SEAS/CfA)
  6. Pratyush Singh (BITS-Pilani, Goa)
  7. Qiyuan Johnny Wang (Columbia/TAMU)
  8. Jue Wang (UC Davis)
  9. Youwei Yan (Simon Fraser)
  10. Haoming Zhao (Columbia)
  11. Di Zhang (UC Irvine)
  12. Xiangyu Zhang (Minnesota)
  13. Robert Zimmerman (Toronto)

Former CHASC Affiliates and Researchers:

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:

  1. CJ Zijin Shen (Harvard 2000), Head of Options Trading, Virtu Financial, NY
  2. Chris Hans (Harvard AB 2001), Associate Professor, Ohio State University
  3. Rostislav S. Protassov (Harvard 2003) Director, Citigroup, NY
  4. David Esch (Harvard 2003), Director of Research, New Frontier Advisors, MA
  5. Hosung Kang (Harvard 2005), Head of Research, LINE Investment Technologies, Korea
  6. Yaming Yu (Harvard 2005), Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
  7. Taeyoung Park (Harvard 2006), Professor, Yonsei University, Korea
  8. Jingchen Liu (Harvard 2008), Professor, Columbia University
  9. Alan Burton Lenarcic (Harvard 2009), US Securities and Exchange Commission, NY
  10. Paul David Baines (Harvard 2010), VP of Product and Engineering, QC Ware, CA
  11. Xianchao Xie (Harvard 2011), Two Sigma Investments
  12. Li Zhu (Harvard 2012), Marshall Wace, UK
  13. Victoria Liublinska Prince (Harvard 2013), Data Scientist, Takeda, MA
  14. Nathan Stein (Harvard 2013), Data Scientist, Spotify, NY
  15. Alex Blocker (Harvard 2013), CTO and Chief Data Scientist, Foresite Labs, CA
  16. Jin Xu (UC Irvine 2014), Director of Machine Learning, Adobe, CA
  17. Shandong Zhao (UC Irvine 2014), Statistician, Little Red Book, CA
  18. Raymond Wong (UC Davis 2014), Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
  19. Irina Udaltsova (UC Davis 2014), Senior Statistician, Pratt & Whitney, CT
  20. David Stenning (UC Irvine 2015), Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
  21. Lazhi Wang (Harvard 2015), Two Sigma, NY
  22. Dan Cervone (Harvard, 2015), Co-Founder and Principal Data Scientist, Zelus Analytics, CO
  23. David Jones (Harvard 2016), Amazon
  24. Hyungsuk Tak (Harvard 2016), Assistant Professor, Penn State University
  25. Xiyun Jiao (Imperial 2016), Assistant Professor, SUSTech, China
  26. Yang Chen (Harvard 2017), Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
  27. Xufei Wang (Harvard 2017), Two Sigma, NY
  28. Minjie Fan (UC Davis 2017), Software Engineer, Meta, CA
  29. Qi Gao (UC Davis 2017), Senior Data Scientist, Faire, CA
  30. Vasileios Stampoulis (Imperial 2018), Quantitative Trader, ISAM, UK
  31. Sara Algeri (Imperial 2018), Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
  32. Chunzhe Zhang (UC Davis 2018), Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn, CA
  33. Shijing Si (Imperial 2018), Sr Lecturer, Shanghai International Studies University, China
  34. Luis Campos (Harvard 2019), Engineering Manager, Etsy, NY
  35. Shihao Yang (Harvard 2019)
  36. Katy McKeough (Harvard 2020), Senior Analyst, Red Sox, MA
  37. Andrea Sottosanti (Padua 2020), Assistant Professor, University of Padua
  38. Chang Goh (Imperial 2020)
  39. Xixi Yu (Imperial 2021), Vice President, Citibank, UK
  40. Cong Xu (UC Davis 2021), Root Insurance, Columbus, OH
  41. Max Autenrieth (Imperial 2023), Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperial College
  42. Jue Wang (UC Davis, 2024),
  43. Antoine Meyer (Imperial 2024), Quantitative Researcher, Man AHL, UK