2022

Searching binary central stars in planetary nebulae with ZTF

Tam Man Shuen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/National Tsing Hua University) | REU Program 2022
Mentor: Albert Kong

Constraining the early light curves of Type Ia supernovae

Anna Grace Ulses (Trinity College Dublin) | REU Program 2022
Mentor: Kate Macguire

Exploring the diversity of Type Ia supernova environments

Robert Senzel (Trinity College Dublin) | REU Program 2022
Mentor: Kate Macguire

Correlations between SN Ia and their host’s properties in the ZTF DR2 volume limited sample

Madeleine Ginolin (IN2P3) | IN2P3 REU Program 2022
Mentor: Mickael Rigault

Technique for discovery of white dwarfs with transitary planerary debris in ZTF

Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Science) | Caltech SURF 2022
Mentor: Zach Vanderbosch / Shri Kulkarni

Defining and characterizing the full sample of young Type Ia supernovae found with ZTF-I

Anastasia Wei (Northwestern University) | NW REU 2022
Mentor: Adam Miller

Combining Data Science, STEM, and Astronomy with Android App ZARTH

Anika Arora (Caltech) | Caltech SURF 2022
Mentor: Ashish Mahabal

Fritz development for multi-messenger astrophysics

Leo Yang (Caltech) | Caltech SURF 2022
Mentor: Robert Stein

Hardware accelerated inferencing on alert streams using Edge TPUs

Randy Ngo (Caltech) | Caltech SURF 2022
Mentor: Matthew Graham

Developing a monitoring system for identifying anomalous photometric behavior from ZTF nightly data

Cason Shepard (Caltech) | Caltech SURF 2022 Mentor: Matthew Graham

Exploring anomaly detection using topological data analysis techniques with ZTF time series

Riti Agarwal (Caltech) | Caltech SURF 2022
Mentor: Matthew Graham

2021

X-Ray Bright vs Faint Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN): Using the Structure Function to Compare AGN Variability

Milo Brown (Diablo Valley College ) | WAVE Fellows 2021
Mentor: Matthew Graham

Finding Millisecond Optical Transients and Variable Sources in Zwicky Transient Facility Data Using Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Techniques

Derek Ing (Caltech) | Caltech SURF 2021
Mentor: Mansi Kasliwal, co-mentor: Igor Andreoni

Gravitational Lensing and Neural Networks

Josiah Miller (Caltech) | Caltech SURF 2021
Mentor: Matthew Graham

A Search for Short Period Cataclysmic Variables Using ZTF

Zhuofu (Chester) Li (UCLA) | Caltech SURF 2021
Mentor: Jan van Roestel

Creating kilonova “surrogate” models from fixed model grids

Jack Heinzel (Carleton College) | Caltech SURF 2020
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Estimating the kilonova luminosity function with ZTF

Priyadarshini Rajkumar (TTU) | Caltech SURF 2020
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Scheduling strategies for detecting kilonovae from binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star—black hole (NSBH) mergers with ZTF

Polina Petrov (Carnegie Mellon University) | Caltech SURF 2020
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Dynamic Exposures: a new technique for the electromagnetic followup of gravitational wave triggers

Vishwesh Kumar (American University of Sharjah) | Caltech SURF 2020
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Optimizing the ZTF survey strategy for kilonova detection

Mouza Al Mualla (American University of Sharjah) | Caltech SURF 2020
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An online framework for fitting fast transient light curves

Brandon Reed (University of Minnesota - Duluth) | 2020 REU at U of Minnesota
Mentor: Michael Coughlin

Scheduling the Unexpected: Mixed Integer Programming Based Scheduling for Ground and Space Based Surveys

B Parazin (Northeastern University) | 2020 REU at U of Minnesota
Mentor: Michael Coughlin