Machine Learning


The optical and infrared are connected

Galaxies are often modelled as disjoint composites of distinct spectral components, implying that different wavelength ranges are only weakly correlated. They are not. We construct a data-driven model to predict infrared emission from optical spectra, achieving almost lossless predictions. Traditional fitting methods are incapable of making predictions, being biased by model misspecifications.

The sky over Mauna Kea observed with SuNSS

The biggest challenge for next-generation ground-based spectroscopic surveys is the emission from the atmosphere itself. The Subaru Night Sky Spectrograph (SuNSS) studies this emission, called airglow, which allows us to improve our calibrations, sky subtraction, and understanding of the airglow itself.

Building better galaxies with Mangrove

We show how building a graph neural network emulator using merger trees encoded as graphs can both dramatically improve the precision with which we make simulated galaxies and improve our understanding of the galaxies we make!

Learning Galaxy Properties from Merger Trees with Mangrove

This project aimed to show how building an emulator using merger trees encoded as graphs can both dramatically improve the precision with which we make simulated galaxies and improve our understanding of the galaxies we make! We achieved that with Mangrove (Paper out now)!

Improving event reconstrution at IceCube

Using Graph Neural Networks, me and a group of friends showed that event reconstruction speed and precision for low-energy neutrino events can be greatly improved.