Project 10

Project 10: Interpretable Latent Space Generative Models for Galaxy Evolution

Lead PIs: Aleksandra Ćiprijanović (Fermilab; aleksand at fnal.gov), Sandeep Madireddy (Argonne National Laboratory)
Co-PIs: Alexander Ji (UC), Aggelos Katsaggelos (NU), Michael Maire (UC), Tjitske Starkenburg (NU), Allison Strom (NU), Michael Zevin (Adler)
Students: Anirban Samaddar (ANL), Aidan Simpson (UC)
Collaborators: Emma Alexander (NU), Gourav Khullar (U Washington), Jennifer Li (UIUC), Tim Miller (NU), Greg Shakhnarovich (TTIC), Sasha Tchekhovskoy (NU),  Chun-Hao To (UC), Rebecca Willett (UC)
Project Summary: This project aims to develop AI methods for studying the evolution of galaxies, including generative models to create synthetic data and inference tools for learning galaxy properties.

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The SkAI Institute is one of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation.

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