I am a Physics PhD candidate at UC Davis in observational cosmology.
Contrary to popular belief that I have to climb up to big telescopes to get data,
I code to collect data about my astronomical targets and analyze the data to test
our understanding of 'cosmological' stuff like dark matter / cosmological
parameters.
(Image credit: Jee et al. 2014, NASA, ESA) "El Gordo" - the heavy galaxy cluster that I studied.
We have used the false color in blue to represent the distribution of dark
matter, and red to represent the intercluster gas.
My blog here is an effort for me to communicate and discuss my work flow
with people from within and outside of (astro)physics.
I like putting together and using reproducible research tools as I believe they can make the scientific process more transparent. Here I will put up non-technical and technical blog posts about:
- cosmology / astrophysics,
- data analysis (Bayesian statistics and Machine Learning),
- computing,
with a theme about solving problems with different research tools / programming languages.