Research interests
Mainly I am interested in the field of precision cosmology, in particular using supernovae to contrain cosmological parameters such as the Hubble Constant, Dark Energy equation of state, etc. I am working on a scheme that will be able to statistically analyze large numbers of supernova light curves in upcoming surveys (most notably LSST) to realize significant improvements in our knowledge of the history, and ultimate fate of our universe.
SALT 2: I have spent a significant amount of time in the last few months tinkering around with the SALT 2 fitter put together by the SNLS collaboration. Mainly, my goal has been to use SALT2 to find a cosmology fit with the Sloan-2 supernovae, and determine how well the SALT2 model fits our data.
PCA and ICA: I am also spending time exploring the use of different component-wise analysis methods for parameterizing these supernova light curves. More on this soon.