Czekala Group Members

Ian is a lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is broadly interested in star and planet formation, machine learning, and Bayesian inference for astrophysics.

Jeff is an Eberly Research Fellow postdoc in the Astronomy and Astrophysics department at Pennsylvania State University. He focuses on protoplanetary disk science and statistical techniques for data analysis, including applications to image synthesis for astronomical interferometry.

In 2023, Brianna completed her Ph.D. entitled “Investigating Planet Formation Through Simulation, Observation, And Machine Learning” at Pennsylvania State University. Her work at Penn State ranged from N-body planet formation simulations to ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks to development of regularized maximum likelihood imaging algorithms. Brianna is now a Brinson Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at Wesleyan University.

Kadri is a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University working on protoplanetary disk dynamics and machine learning for regularized maximum imaging algorithms. From 2021 - 2023, he worked on deep learning methods to emulate molecular line radiative transfer and contributed to the development of the MPoL project. He is now working on his Ph.D. as part of the BlackCAT X-ray telescope mission.

Zoe worked with our group as an undergraduate student and physics major at the University of California, Berkeley. She worked on high resolution stellar spectroscopy and radial velocity analysis for circumbinary protoplanetary disks. Zoe will begin a Ph.D. in Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in 2024.

Tyler is a former bachelors student in the astronomy and astrophysics major at Pennsylvania State University. During 2021 - 22 he worked on regularized maximum likelihood imaging algorithms.

Hannah worked on regularized maximum likelihood imaging algorithms in 2021, while she was an undergraduate student and astronomy and astrophysics major at Pennsylvania State University. Hannah is now a Ph.D. student in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State University (since 2023).

Robert is an undergraduate student and astronomy and astrophysics major at Pennsylvania State University. During 2021, he worked on regularized maximum likelihood imaging algorithms.

Joey is a graduate student in the astronomy and astrophysics department at University of California, Santa Cruz, working on exoplanet detection and characterization. While Joey was a co-terminal masters student at Stanford University, Joey and Ian worked on flexible spectroscopic models for accretion signatures of pre-main sequence stars.