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Jul 22, 2026 Attended NERSC’s Deep Learning for Science School (DL4Sci, 20–24 July 2026) at Berkeley Lab and presented a poster: Demystifying a Foundation Model for Imaging and Spectroscopy.
Jul 14, 2026 Presented at the 2nd Cosmic Horizons conference at UVa (Charlottesville): Demystifying a Foundation Model for Imaging and Spectroscopy.
Jul 01, 2026 Verified as a DESI Contributor (July 2026).
Jun 17, 2026 Gave a CosmicAI lightning talk: Demystifying a Foundation Model for Imaging and Spectroscopy.
Aug 01, 2025 Started as a CosmicAI research intern at NSF NOIRLab (through January 2026), funded by the CosmicAI seed grant, working on the AVIS multimodal foundation model for imaging and spectroscopy.
Jul 17, 2025 Posted our first-author paper on identifying bad exposures in large imaging surveys: arXiv:2507.12784. Revised version (v2) and publication in the Open Journal of Astrophysics followed in February 2026.
May 07, 2025 Gave a talk at the inaugural Cosmic Horizons conference in Austin: Bad Imaging Exposure Identification with Self-Supervised Learning. See the agenda.
May 05, 2025 Awarded an inaugural NSF-Simons CosmicAI seed grant for A Foundation Model for Trustworthy Astronomical Source Classification with Self-Supervised Learning (University of Wyoming & NOIRLab).
Dec 10, 2024 Attended the DESI Cancun meeting and gave a talk on my current on bad exposure identification with DECaLS data.
Aug 16, 2024 Delivered a lightning talk at the ANL student symposium on the research I conducted during my internship. My work is on autonomous camera control. See the work here
Mar 16, 2024 I will return to ANL as a summer research aide at the SAGE group, continuing my work on edge computing and deep learning. I am excited to work with the team again and learn more about the cutting-edge research in the field.
Feb 01, 2024 Published the stability of rotating neutron star paper. arXiv
Dec 08, 2023 IllinoisGRMHD paper publication
Apr 14, 2023 I’m honored to be accepted as a School of Computing Graduate Computing Scholar! See the news here.
Feb 20, 2023 I accepted the W.J. Cody internship position at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) SAGE group. I will work on the edge computing and deep learning.