Current Group Members
Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Email: xinliuxl_AT_illinois.edu
Graduate Students
Ching (Tony) Chen3rd yr Graduate Student
Super-Resolution Imaging
Email: ycchen_AT_illinois.edu
2nd yr Graduate Student
Black Hole Seed
Email: colinjb2_AT_illinois.edu
Undergraduate Students
Sneh Pandya
Phys/Math+Astro Junior
Machine Learning in Astronomy
Email: snehjp2_AT_illinois.edu
Anshul Shah
Phys Sophomore
Deblending and Classification
Email: anshuls3_AT_illinois.edu
Alums
Dr. Wei-Ting Liao
PhD 2020 -> Postdoc fellow at U Melbourne
Dr. Hengxiao Guo
NCSA Associate -> Postdoc fellow at UCI
Kaiwen Zhang
Undergrad Class of 2020 -> MS student at U Chicago
Black Hole Seed; paper published in MNRAS
Devanshi Pratap
Undergrad Class of 2020 -> Microsoft
Machine Learning in Astronomy; NCSA SPIN recognition
Meicun Hou
Visting PhD Student, Nanjing U
X-ray Emission in Galaxy Mergers; paper published in ApJ
Dhara Mehta
Undergrad Class of 2018 -> MS student in Medical Physics at ECU
Black Hole Feedback
Jessica Medintz
Undergrad Class of 2018 -> MS student in CS at Loyola
Binary Black Holes and Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
Alexander Dittmann
Undergrad Class of 2018 -> PhD student at UMD
Tidal Disruption Flares; paper published in ApJ
Anna Kofman
Undergrad Class of 2017 -> PhD student at UPenn
Gamma-ray Variability of Fermi Blazars
Yang Lyu
Undergrad Class of 2018 -> PhD student at Berkeley
Dual AGN/Outflow Selection; paper published in MNRAS
Dr. Jinyi Shangguan
KIAA/PKU PhD -> Postdoc fellow at MPIA
Dual AGN Host Galaxies; paper published in ApJ