University of Hawaiʻi
David Jones
David Jones is an Assistant Astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for
Astronomy.
His research interests include the interface of supernovae and their host galaxies, as well as
measuring cosmic expansion with Type Ia supernovae.
Nicole Drakos
Dr. Nicole Drakos is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of
Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Her research focuses on computational astrophysics, dark matter
structure
and
galaxy formation.
Miranda Kong
Miranda Y. Kong is a PhD student at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of
Hawaiʻi at
Mānoa. Her recent research focuses on sub-mm galaxies, Green Pea galaxies, and supernova
feedback during the cosmic epoch of reionization.
Inoa Martinez
Inoa Martinez is an Undergraduate at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, currently pursuing
a
Bachelors of Science in Astrophysics. Inoa led the design of this Zooniverse project, his
first
major project under the Hi-CAT team. In the future he hopes to study the early universe.
University of Illinois
Gautham Narayan
Gautham Narayan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
His
research interests are at the intersection of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics,
cosmology, statistics and data science. He works on wide-field surveys developing machine
learning methods for real-time detection and classification of variable and transient sources,
Bayesian models for cosmological inference with type Ia supernovae, understanding the host
galaxies of transients, and establishing an all-sky network of faint spectrophotometric
standards for LSST, WFIRST and future projects.
T. Andrew Manning
Andrew Manning is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA). His interests include developing, deploying, and maintaining research
software and cyberinfrastructure for small to large research collaborations.
Rishabh Bezbarua
Rishabh Bezbarua is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He is currently pursuing a major in Computer Science. Under the SPIN program hosted by the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), he has contributed to Blast's
infrastructure.