Shirley Ho

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Shirley Ho
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, Princeton University
Known forCMB, dark matter, dark energy, BAO, Machine Learning in Astrophysics
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics, Cosmology
InstitutionsFlatiron Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University
ThesisBaryons, Universe and Everything Else in Between
Doctoral advisorDavid Spergel
Websitehttps://users.flatironinstitute.org/~sho/index.html

Shirley Ho is an American cosmologist and astrophysicist, currently at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at Flatiron Institute in NYC and at the New York University and the Carnegie Mellon University.[1][2] Ho also has visiting appointment at Princeton University.

A cited expert in cosmology, machine learning applications in astrophysics and data science,[3] her interest are using deep learning accelerated simulations to understand the Universe, and other astrophysical phenomena.[4]

She significantly contributed to the development of several fields, including: cosmic microwave background,[5] cosmological models, dark energy, dark matter,[6][7] spatial distribution of galaxies and quasars,[8] Baryon Acoustic Oscillations,[9][10] cosmological simulations[11] and applications of machine learning to cosmology and astrophysics.[12][13] More recently, Shirley Ho has led her team on a series of papers on accelerating simulations using modern deep learning techniques.[14][15][16]

Education[]

Shirley Ho graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Physics and a B.A. in Computer Science at University of California at Berkeley after completing multiple senior thesis projects in both physics and theoretical computer science in 2004. As an undergraduate, she has researched under guidance of Kam-Biu Luk in particle physics for three years, before working on weak lensing of Cosmic Microwave Background under the supervision of Uros Seljak at Princeton. She then wrote two papers in cosmology under the guidance of Martin White as a senior. Shirley Ho moved to Princeton University to pursue her Ph.D. at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences of Princeton University[1][17] under the supervision of astrophysicist and cosmologist David Spergel. In 2008 she obtained her doctorate in Astrophysical Sciences, with a Thesis entitled "Baryons, Universe and Everything Else in Between".[1]

Career[]

After her Ph.D., she moved to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between 2008 and 2012, in a postdoctoral position as a Chamberlain and a Seaborg Fellow.[1] Later on, she moved to the Carnegie Mellon University, first as an assistant professor and then as an associate (with indefinite tenure) professor in Physics. Shirley Ho was named Cooper-Siegel Development Chair Professor in 2015 at Carnegie Mellon University.[18]

In 2016, Shirley Ho joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Senior Scientist while being on leave from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2018, Shirley Ho joined the Simons Foundation as leader of the Cosmology X Data Science group[19] at Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute.[20] She also currently holds faculty positions at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University. In 2021, Shirley Ho is named the Interim Director of CCA at the Flatiron Institute as well.[21]

Prizes[]

Shirley Ho won several prizes for her significant contributions to the fields of cosmology and astrophysics. The list includes:

  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2011) for contribution to Planck mission.
  • Macronix Prize (2014): The Outstanding Young Researcher Award by International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers.[22]
  • Carnegie Science Award (2015)[23]
  • Elected as International Astrostatistics Association Fellow, 2020.[24]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Shirley Ho". Simons Foundation. 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  2. ^ "Homepage of Shirley Ho". users.flatironinstitute.org. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  3. ^ "Home". users.flatironinstitute.org. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  4. ^ "First AI Simulation of the Universe Is Fast and Accurate — and Its Creators Don't Know How It Works". Simons Foundation. 2019-06-26. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  5. ^ Ho, Shirley; Hirata, Christopher; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Seljak, Uros; Bahcall, Neta (2008-08-01). "Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure. I. Integrated Sachs-Wolfe tomography and cosmological implications". Physical Review D. 78 (4): 043519. arXiv:0801.0642. Bibcode:2008PhRvD..78d3519H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.043519. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 38383124.
  6. ^ Vagnozzi, Sunny; Giusarma, Elena; Mena, Olga; Freese, Katherine; Gerbino, Martina; Ho, Shirley; Lattanzi, Massimiliano (2017-12-01). "Unveiling $\ensuremath{\nu}$ secrets with cosmological data: Neutrino masses and mass hierarchy". Physical Review D. 96 (12): 123503. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.123503. S2CID 119521570.
  7. ^ Ho, Shirley; Dedeo, Simon; Spergel, David (2009-03-01). "Finding the Missing Baryons Using CMB as a Backlight". arXiv:0903.2845 [astro-ph.CO].
  8. ^ Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, Antonio; Seo, Hee-Jong; de Putter, Roland; Ross, Ashley J.; White, Martin; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Saito, Shun; Schlegel, David J.; Schlafly, Eddie; Seljak, Uros (2012-12-01). "Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Photometric Luminous Galaxies: The Measurement, Systematics, and Cosmological Implications". The Astrophysical Journal. 761 (1): 14. arXiv:1201.2137. Bibcode:2012ApJ...761...14H. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/761/1/14. S2CID 15716313.
  9. ^ Anderson, Lauren; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen; Beutler, Florian; Bhardwaj, Vaishali; Blanton, Michael; Bolton, Adam S.; Brinkmann, J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burden, Angela; Chuang, Chia-Hsun (2014-06-11). "The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Releases 10 and 11 Galaxy samples". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 441 (1): 24–62. arXiv:1312.4877. Bibcode:2014MNRAS.441...24A. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu523. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 5011077.
  10. ^ Vargas-Magaña, Mariana; Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, Antonio J.; O'Connell, Ross; Ross, Ashley J.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Percival, Will J.; Grieb, Jan Niklas; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Tinker, Jeremy L.; Tojeiro, Rita (2018-06-11). "The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: theoretical systematics and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the galaxy correlation function". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477 (1): 1153–1188. arXiv:1610.03506. Bibcode:2018MNRAS.477.1153V. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty571. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 54838269.
  11. ^ "The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate and its creators don't know how it works". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  12. ^ He, Siyu; Li, Yin; Feng, Yu; Ho, Shirley; Ravanbakhsh, Siamak; Chen, Wei; Póczos, Barnabás (2019-07-09). "Learning to predict the cosmological structure formation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (28): 13825–13832. arXiv:1811.06533. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11613825H. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821458116. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 6628645. PMID 31235606.
  13. ^ Wadekar, Digvijay; Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco; Ho, Shirley; Perreault-Levasseur, Laurence (2020-07-27). "HInet: Generating neutral hydrogen from dark matter with neural networks". arXiv:2007.10340 [astro-ph.CO].
  14. ^ Tamayo, Daniel; Cranmer, Miles; Hadden, Samuel; Rein, Hanno; Battaglia, Peter; Obertas, Alysa; Armitage, Philip J.; Ho, Shirley; Spergel, David N.; Gilbertson, Christian; Hussain, Naireen (2020-08-04). "Predicting the long-term stability of compact multiplanet systems". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (31): 18194–18205. arXiv:2007.06521. Bibcode:2020PNAS..11718194T. doi:10.1073/pnas.2001258117. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 7414196. PMID 32675234.
  15. ^ Cranmer, Miles; Sanchez-Gonzalez, Alvaro; Battaglia, Peter; Xu, Rui; Cranmer, Kyle; Spergel, David; Ho, Shirley (2020-06-19). "Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases". arXiv:2006.11287 [cs.LG].
  16. ^ Yip, Jacky H. T.; Zhang, Xinyue; Wang, Yanfang; Zhang, Wei; Sun, Yueqiu; Contardo, Gabriella; Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco; He, Siyu; Genel, Shy; Ho, Shirley (2019-10-17). "From Dark Matter to Galaxies with Convolutional Neural Networks". arXiv:1910.07813 [astro-ph.CO].
  17. ^ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Shirley Ho - Department of Physics - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  18. ^ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Physicist Shirley Ho Receives Cooper-Siegel Professorship - Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  19. ^ https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/center-for-computational-astrophysics/cosmology-x-data-science/
  20. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/science/flatiron-institute-james-simons-foundation.html
  21. ^ "Shirley Ho". Simons Foundation. 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
  22. ^ "OYRA Award (MACRONIX PRIZE) | OCPA". Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  23. ^ University, Carnegie Mellon (January 2015). "Shirley Ho Wins Carnegie Science Award - Department of Physics - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  24. ^ @AlanHeavens (8 January 2021). "Congratulations to the International Astrostatistics Association 2020 Award winners, Jeffrey Scargle, Giuseppe Long…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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