About me
I am currently a fourth-year graduate student, part of the Survey Science Group here at the University of Washington. I have worked on a few different projects, including the cosmology analysis for the SDSS2 Supernova Survey and nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods on large Astronomical Datasets. My thesis project involves 3D mapping of Dark Matter using Weak Gravitational Lensing. Currently I'm investigating the role of photometric redshift errors in the uncertainty of these dark matter maps.
Though not technically part of my thesis, I'm still very interested in exploring a technique called Locally Linear Embedding, and have contributed LLE code to MDP, an open-source python Data Processing Toolkit.
In the fall of 2009 I began collaborating with folks at Microsoft Research on Project Trident, a user-friendly platform for optimized scientific computation.
Another of my interests is educational outreach. For the past few quarters, I've been coordinating our department's public outreach throuch the UW planetarium.