Mentoring & training

Mentorship & Supervision

The students, postdocs, and visiting researchers I have worked with, past and present.

85Total mentees
15Current
70Former
Mentees by career stage
Postdocs9
Doctoral14
Master's4
Undergraduates57
Secondary school1

Totals above are all-time and do not change with the search or filters below.

Current mentees 15

Postdocs 8

Fall 2024–Present · Postdoc · Primary Supervisor

Reconstructing recent star formation history using Gaia and SDSS-V data of young stars

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Doctoral 6

Fall 2024–Present · Doctoral · Co-Supervisor

Leo Watson

Statistical learning, quantum computing, and MCMC methods for astronomical Bayesian inference

Co-supervised with Radu Craiu (Statistical Sciences)

PhD candidate

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Undergraduates 1

Summer 2026 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Leo (Hanbang) Wu

alphaUniverse: The AI Virtual Observatory

Co-supervised with Biprateep Dey, Nolan Koblischke

Undergraduate student

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Former mentees 70

Postdocs 1

Fall 2023–Fall 2025 · Postdoc · Primary Supervisor

Building AI foundation models to interpret astronomical images

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Doctoral 8

Fall 2022–2026 · Doctoral · Co-Supervisor

Mairead Heiger

Galactic chemical evolution using metal-poor stars and dwarf galaxies with hierarchical modeling

Co-supervised with Ting Li (Astronomy & Astrophysics)

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Master's 4

Winter 2026 · Master's · Primary Supervisor

Philip Loewen

Understanding Architectural Biases in Neural Time Series Models

Research Course

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2025–Winter 2026 · Master's · Primary Supervisor

Isabelle (Liyuan) Huang

Time Series Forecasting with Deep Markov Models

Research Course

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Undergraduates 56

Fall 2025–Summer 2026 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Chuxuan Ai

Hamiltonian Optimization and Sampling for Deep Learning; Exploring the Chaotic Dynamics of Repelling-Attracting Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Systems

Co-supervised with Ricardo Baptista

DSI SUDSSenior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2026 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Yasir Alsugair

Hamiltonian Optimization and Sampling for Deep Learning

Co-supervised with Ricardo Baptista

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2026 · Undergraduate · Secondary Supervisor

Tristan Fattedad

Photometric redshift calibration for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Co-supervised with Biprateep Dey (Statistical Sciences)

Senior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2026 · Undergraduate · Secondary Supervisor

Sargun Jassal

Surveying Ultra-Low-Mass Stellar Populations in the Solar Neighborhood

Co-supervised with Ronan Kerr (Dunlap Institute)

Senior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2025–Winter 2026 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Diego Martinez Noriega

Estimating Stellar Abundances Across Surveys using Probabilistic Deep Learning

Co-supervised with Ting Li (Astronomy & Astrophysics)

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Winter 2026 · Undergraduate · Secondary Supervisor

Isabella Rivera

Tracing Star Formation Histories and Evolution in Rho Ophiuchi

Co-supervised with Ronan Kerr (Dunlap Institute)

Research Course

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Winter 2026 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Mehmet Bükücü

Galaxy evolution with a single star?

Research Course

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2025 · Undergraduate · Secondary Supervisor

Mayesha Rahaman

Kinematic and Demographic Analysis of the SCYA-89 Stellar Association

Co-supervised with Ronan Kerr (Dunlap Institute)

Research Course

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2023–Summer 2025 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Matthew Kustec

Exploring Galaxy Assembly Histories Across Cosmological Simulations

Co-supervised with Alicia Savelli (CITA)

Senior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2024 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Cissy Kuang

Exploring Galaxy Evolution in Cosmological Simulations with Machine Learning

Co-supervised with Alicia Savelli (CITA)

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2024 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Weizhi "Luke" Shen

Galactic Paleontology with Probabilistic Machine Learning

Co-supervised with Ting Li (Astronomy & Astrophysics)

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2024 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Junbo "Felix" Li

Identifying Strong Lenses in Euclid Data with Active Learning

Co-supervised with Mike Walmsley (Dunlap Institute)

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2024 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Seo Won "Sean" Yi

Assessing the Robustness of Bayesian Model Comparison in Cosmological Analysis

Co-supervised with Tanveer Karim (Dunlap Institute)

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2024 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Semoore Tijani

Making the next generation of 3D Interstellar Medium Dust Temperature Maps

Co-supervised with Ioana Zelko (CITA)

A&A SURPAurora Borealis Fellow

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2023–Winter 2024 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Patrice Yee

Population Demographics of Exoplanets and their Host Stars

Junior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2023–Winter 2024 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Jimmy Yang

Population Demographics of Exoplanets and their Host Stars

Junior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2023–Winter 2024 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Xinpeng Xing

Population Demographics of Exoplanets and their Host Stars

Junior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2023–Winter 2024 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Wanshi Liang

Population Demographics of Exoplanets and their Host Stars

Junior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2023–Winter 2024 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Yonatan Eyob

Population Demographics of Exoplanets and their Host Stars

Junior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2023–Winter 2024 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Maximilian Zabrodski

Multiple Stellar Populations: Observations, Origins, and Onetime Solutions

Co-supervised with Steffani Grondin (Astronomy & Astrophysics)

Junior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2023–Winter 2024 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Qianyu "Rita" Fan

Latent Parameter Inference with Probabilistic Dimensionality Reduction

Senior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2023 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Guiping Zhao

Deriving Stellar Properties with Spectrophotometric Modelling

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2023 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Eshal Ahmed

Exploring Galaxy Assembly Histories Across Cosmological Simulations

Co-supervised with Alicia Savelli (CITA)

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Fall 2022–Summer 2023 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Probabilistic Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Stellar Chemodynamics

Senior Thesis

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Winter 2023 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Exploring Definitions of Milky Way Analogues with Cosmological Simulations

Co-supervised with Alicia Savelli (CITA)

Research Course

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Summer 2022–Winter 2023 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Investigating Warped Disk Galaxies in IllustrisTNG

Co-supervised with Neige Frankel (CITA)

My career stage then: Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor

Fall 2022 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Applications of Bayesian Predictive Model Comparison in Astronomy

My career stage then: Assistant Professor

Winter 2020–Summer 2022 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Estimating Stellar Parameters using 220M Gaia DR3 BP/RP Spectra; Disentangling Stellar Age Estimates from Galactic Chemodynamical Evolution; Estimating the Mass of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey

Co-supervised with Neige Frankel (CITA), J. Ted Mackereth (CITA), Gwen Eadie (Astronomy & Astrophysics / Statistical Sciences), Norm Murray (CITA), Dennis Zaritsky (University of Arizona)

Research CourseSenior Thesis

My career stage then: Postdoctoral Fellow

Fall 2020–Summer 2022 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Mingxuan Teng

Detecting and Characterizing Outliers in Machine Learning Applications

Co-supervised with Renée Hložek (Dunlap Institute)

A&A SURPResearch Course

My career stage then: Postdoctoral Fellow

Fall 2021–Winter 2022 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Charlie Hughes

Estimating Photometric Metallicities with DECam and S5

Co-supervised with Ting Li (Astronomy & Astrophysics)

Senior Thesis

My career stage then: Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor

Fall 2021–Winter 2022 · Undergraduate · Primary Supervisor

Daniel Ding

Latent Space Decompositions of APOGEE Spectra

Co-supervised with Jo Bovy (Astronomy & Astrophysics)

Senior Thesis

My career stage then: Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor

Summer 2019–Fall 2020 · Undergraduate · Co-Supervisor

Kaustav Das

Constraining the Distance to the North Polar Spur

Co-supervised with Catherine Zucker (Harvard University)

My career stage then: Postdoctoral Fellow

Secondary school 1

Fall 2021–Winter 2022 · Secondary school · Primary Supervisor

Estimating Galaxy Properties from Images with Probabilistic Deep Learning

My career stage then: Postdoctoral Fellow