Current Group Members
Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Email: xinliuxl_AT_illinois.edu
Postdoctoral Fellows
NCSA Associate
DES/LSST science
Email: hengxiao_AT_illinois.edu
Graduate Students
5th yr Graduate Student (semester project)
Quasar Variability and Accretion Disk Physics
Email: wliao10_AT_illinois.edu
4th yr Graduate Student (semester project)
Machine Learning Applications in Cosmology
Email: yaoyuyl2_AT_illinois.edu
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
Kaiwen Zhang
Phys+Astro Senior
Black Hole Seed
Email: kzhang58_AT_illinois.edu
Devanshi Pratap
CS+Astro Junior
Machine Learning in Astronomy
Email: dpratap2_AT_illinois.edu
Sneh Pandya
Phys/Math+Astro Sophomore
Machine Learning in Astronomy
Email: snehjp2_AT_illinois.edu
Alums
Meicun Hou
Visting PhD Student from Nanjing U
X-ray Emission in Galaxy Mergers; paper published in ApJ
Dhara Mehta
4th yr Undergraduate Student
Black Hole Feedback
Jessica Medintz
Undergraduate Class of 2018 -> CS master student at Loyola
Binary Black Holes and Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
Alexander Dittmann
Undergraduate Class of 2018 -> PhD student at UMD
Tidal Disruption Flares; paper published in ApJ
Anna Kofman
Undergraduate Class of 2017 -> PhD student at UPenn
Gamma-ray Variability of Fermi Blazars
Yang Lyu
Undergraduate Class of 2018 -> PhD student at Berkeley
Dual AGN/Outflow Selection; paper published in MNRAS
Jinyi Shangguan
KIAA/PKU PhD -> Postdoc fellow at MPIA
Dual AGN Host Galaxies; paper published in ApJ