Group and Collaborators

Current Group Members

Dr. Susmita Sett - Research Associate

Susmita's work is focused on exploration of accreting compact objects in large surveys such as Vera Rubin Observatory's LSST. She has previously worked on large radio surveys of pulsars.

Jinguo (David) Xu - Graduate Intern

David is working on fine-tuning large language models for analysis of unstructured astronomical datasets.

Tyrone O'Doherty - PhD Student & Forrest scholar

(Co-supervising with James Miller-Jones & Adelle Goodwin)
Tyrone's research is focused on characerization of Galactic black holes and neutron stars using kinematic, astrometric and spectroscopic techniques.

Callan Wood - PhD Student & Forrest scholar

(Co-supervising with James Miller-Jones & Steven Tingay)
Callan's research is focused on development of novel techniques for imaging black holes in Very Long Baseline Interferometry experiments.

Shih Ching Fu - PhD Student

(Co-supervising with Aloke Phatak)
Shih Ching's research is focused on application of gaussian processes in characterization of astronomical transients and variables.

Ben Burridge - PhD Student

(Co-supervising with James Miller-Jones and Steve Prabu)
Ben's research is focused on analysis of HI spectrum from radio-bright X-ray binaries as captured by the Square-Kilometre Array precursor telescope MeerKAT.

Angiraben Mahida - PhD Student

(Co-supervising with James Miller-Jones and Susmita Sett)
Angira has just joined our group to work on exploring the population of black holes and neutron stars in globular clusters.

Former Group Members

Alessandro Paduano - PhD Student

(Co-supervised with James Miller-Jones & Adela Kawka)
Alessandro's research was focused on neutron stars and black holes in globular clusters. He is now a meteorologist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

Pikky Atri - PhD Student

(Co-supervised with James Miller-Jones & Rich Plotkin)
Pikky's research was focused on kinematic study of Galactic black holes using VLBI observations. She is now a Women in Science Excel (WISE) fellow at ASTRON.

Collaborators

Not an exhaustive list, just some of the folks I discuss research with frequently:

Diego Altamirano, Kristen Dage, Nathalie Degenaar, Craig Heinke, Jamie Kennea, Eric Koch, Ilya Mandel (and team COMPAS), Tom Maccarone, James Miller-Jones, Aloke Phatak, Jay Strader, Alex Tetarenko, Bailey Tetarenko. Lilia Tremou,