Astrostatistician at Imperial College London, funded by the Royal Society. Previously at NYU funded by NASA. He/him. Black lives matter.
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Boris LEISTEDT retweeted
Really clever way to start the #AstroHackWeek zoom meeting with some down time for people to set up their audio and also annotate the starting slide for some fun.
ALT annotated image of an astronaut in space
Boris LEISTEDT retweeted
We know many of you have been asking about the progress we’ve made to look into our history and legacy and today we can update you (THREAD 🧵)
More info👇🏽
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Awesome wrap up session at #AstroHackWeek ! So many great hacks by a diverse group of lovely people. Best week of the year again
Popular breakout in types of neural networks, architectures, applications advice, etc #AstroHackWeek
Second day at #AstroHackWeek! Bayesian inference tutorials in the morning, quantum computing breakout and hacking in the afternoon!
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Astro Hack Week 2018 is happening! Time for a Tea Party team building exercise #AstroHackWeek
Applications for #AstroHackWeek are now open (until April 30)! We invite researchers of all backgrounds/career stages interested in astronomical data analysis, to come work on exciting projects with us! Details + application here: astrohackweek.org/2018/ #astronomy #DataScience
Thrilled to announce that Astro Hack Week 2018 will be taking place on August 6-10 at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, the Netherlands. Mark your calendars! #astrohackweek
Oh, astrobite did a piece about our paper! cc @Galactichawk @davidwhogg @jobovy astrobites.org/2017/11/30/ga…
Slides of the colloquia I gave in UMichigan and UofToronto. Wonderful visits, people, and research! I'm so excited now speakerdeck.com/ixkael/data-…
Getting ready for Gaia DR2: multicolor CMD-GMM working (with tensorflow SGD), 3D dust is next! cc @davidwhogg
Analytic marginalization of additive and multiplicative scalings in gaussian likelihoods goo.gl/tYRJon cc @davidwhogg
Improved CMD-GMM model with parallaxes robustly marginalized. Now adding more colors & 3D dust + tensorflow for Gaia DR2+. cc @davidwhogg
My TIARA lectures about Hierarchical Probabilistic Models (slides, videos, and notebooks) are online! ixkael.github.io/tiara-lectu…
