News

  • Feb 2025 – Our project, “DeepDISC-Euclid: Detection, Instance Segmentation, and Classification for Euclid with Deep Learning”, has been funded by NASA.
  • Dec 2024 – Shurui presented a poster at the workshop cosmology and galaxy astrophysics with simulations and machine learning 2024.
  • Oct 2024 – Our project, entitled “DeepDISC-Cosmology: A Machine Learning Breakthrough for Cosmological Analysis” (PHY240290), has been approved by NSF ACCESS.
  • Oct 2024 – Our project, entitled “DeepDISC-Cosmology: Detection, Instance Segmentation, and Classification for Astronomical Surveys with Deep Learning”, has been funded by the Campus Research Board as a Beckman Award. Check out more details here.
  • Sep 2024 – Prof. Liu gave the Department of Astronomy colloquium entitled “Unlocking the Cosmos: The Synergy of AI and Astronomy”.
  • Aug 2024 – Grant’s work on DeepDISC has been highlighted by LAS news.
  • May 2024 – Prof. Liu gave an invited talk, entitled “Rare Gems in Big Data: Exploring the Uncharted”, at the NOIRLab conference Rare Gems in Big Data.
  • May 2024 – Our NuSTAR proposal, entitled “Are Intrinsically X-ray Luminous AGNs Truly Prevalent in Late-stage Galaxy Mergers?”, has been approved by NASA.
  • Apr 2024 – Grant, Liam, and Spencer presented their research at the 2024 Illinois Astrofest.
  • Apr 2024 – Congratulations to Liam on being awarded the NSF GRFP fellowship!
  • More news in the archive.