Group and Collaborators

Current Group Members

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's research is focused on exploring the population of black holes and neutron stars in globular clusters.

Natalie Langford - Physics Honours Student

(Co-supervising with James Miller-Jones)
Natalie has been working on observations of a newly found black hole candidate.

Former Group Members

Dr. Susmita Sett - Research Associate (2023-2025)

(worked with me and Kristen Dage)
Susmita's work was 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. She is now a Telescope Operator and Data Analyst at SKAO.

Tyrone O'Doherty - PhD Student & Forrest scholar (2021-2025)

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

Serena Jones - Physics Undergraduate Student (2024)

(Co-supervised with James Miller-Jones)
Serena worked on radio polarization in jets of accreting black holes. She is now continuing her undergraduate studies.

Arlene Janse Van Rensburg - Actuarial Sciences Undergraduate Student (2024-2025)

(Co-supervised with Aloke Phatak)
Arlene worked on application of data-intensive statistical techniques to search for black holes in high-volume and high through-put astronomical datasets. Arlene is now an honours student in actuarial sciences and a Don Watts Scholar.

Jinguo (David) Xu - Graduate Intern (2023-2024)

(worked with me and Kristen Dage)
David worked on fine-tuning large language models for analysis of unstructured astronomical datasets. He is now a research assistant at the ARC Centre for Maintenance.

Blake Glossop - Data Science Honours Student (2023-2024)

(Co-supervised with Aloke Phatak)
Blake worked on modeling X-ray images of star clusters with 2-D non-gaussian mixture models.

Tim Perrett - Physics Undergraduate Student (2023)

(Co-supervised with James Miller-Jones)
Tim worked on modeling the Galactic distribution of X-ray binaries.

Reagan Streeter - Physics Undergraduate Student (2023)

(Co-supervised with James Miller-Jones)
Reagan worked on analysis of HI spectra of jet ejecta from X-ray binaries as observed by MeerKAT.

Louise Trend - Physics Undergraduate Student (2022)

(Co-supervised with James Miller-Jones)
Louise worked on modeling the population and dynamics of pulsars in the Galactic bulge.

Mark Charlesworth - Math and Statistics Honours Student (2021-2022)

(Co-supervised with Aloke Phatak)
Mark worked on developing a bayesian hierarchical model as an errors-in-variables model for non-gaussian random variables, to explore the link between population of X-ray binaries and host globular cluster properties.

Amy Dutton - Data Science Undergraduate Student (2021)

Amy explored efficacy of unsupervised learning techniques in identification of black hole candidates in large astronomical datasets (such as the Gaia catalog).

Alessandro Paduano - PhD Student (2020-2023)

(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 (2018-2021)

(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:

Kristen Dage, Nathalie Degenaar, Rob Fender (and team ThunderKAT), 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.