The fundamental plane of GRBs. Credits: Maria Dainotti et al. Maria Giovanna Dainotti
Assistant Professor
The fundamental plane of GRBs. Credits: Maria Dainotti et al. Assistant Professor
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Hello, my name is Aditya Narendra. I am fourth year doctoral student at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland under the supervision of Prof. Agnieszka Pollo and Prof. Dainotti. I have been working with Prof. Dainotti since August 2020 and officially started my doctoral studies from January 2021. My work focuses on application of supervised machine learning techniques for obtaining the redshift of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active-galactic nucleis (AGNs). We have also investigated classification of GRBs using unsupervised machine learning methods. Furthermore, we also investigated the reconstruction of GRB lightcurves using the technique of Gaussian Process, leading to a significant reduction in errors of GRB properties. Currently, we are working on developing a free-to-use webapp that can help the community obtain ML based redshift estimates of GRBs quickly.
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Hello, I am Giada Bargiacchi and I am a 4rd year PhD student at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples on the project "Cosmology, Space Science & Space Technology". I have been collaborating with Maria since 2021 on the application of Quasars and Gamma-Ray Bursts in cosmology and its implication on the current cosmological tensions. We have published 10 papers together and one review is currently under revision. This collaboration really inspired me and boosted my research.
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Hello, my name is Biagio De Simone. I am a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate from the University of Salerno. I've been working with Maria since March 2020 on the Gamma-Ray Bursts astrophysics and cosmology. Thanks to this collaboration, I published 5 papers as Maria's co-author, in particular I investigated the Hubble constant tension through Supernovae Ia and I contributed to build the most complete catalogue of optical GRBs with redshift to date.
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Hi, I am Sachin Venkatesh. I am a Graduate Student at the Georgia Tech Physics. I worked with Maria on a GRB properties classification project that was published in the paper "GRB optical and X-ray plateau properties classifier using unsupervised machine learning".
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Hello, I am Aditi Manchanda and I have completed my Master's degree in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). My primary interest lies in the intersection of artificial intelligence and astrophysics, specifically in applying ML techniques to analyze astrophysical data. Currently, I am working with Maria on the stochastic reconstruction of gamma-ray burst (GRB) light curves using machine-learning methodologies.
Hi, my name is Augusto C. Caligula do E. S. Pedreira. I'm a PhD in Astrophysics by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, whose specialty is the theoretical modeling of GRBs and their polarization. I've worked with Maria since 2022 and have a total of 5 accepted/published collaborations in academic journals of high repute, including the recently published largest optical catalogue of GRBs with measured redshift, and three papers in which I was the first author: 1, 2, and 3.
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Hi! My name is Delina Levine, and I'm currently a second-year graduate student at Caltech. I worked with Maria for two years as an undergraduate on multiple projects involving population studies of GRBs in multiple wavelengths. Over the course of our collaboration, we have published eight papers together, and presented our work at numerous conferences and workshops. Most recently, I contributed to the compilation of the largest catalog of optically-observed GRBs with redshift to date.
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I am Ishan Jindal. I am a final year undergraduate student, pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Physics at IIT Kharagpur. This is my first proper research work, and I am honored to be a co-author in "An Optical Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogue with Measured Redshift PART I: Data Release of 535 Gamma-Ray Bursts and Colour Evolution".
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Hi, My name is Aleksander Lenart. I am currently (10.2024) a final-year Master's degree student at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. I began my collaboration with Maria in April 2020 as a high school student. I had an opportunity to contribute to the research at every stage of creating a paper, from data gathering through developing new statistical procedures to addressing the referee's comments. The long hours of hard work resulted in 10 peer-reviewed papers, 3 conference talks, and 3 posters.
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I am Ridha Fathima Mohideen Malik from India. I recently graduated from the Erasmus Mundus Master's programme in Astrophysics and Space Science. I have been collaborating with Professor Maria Dainotti since the summer of 2022. As a fresh graduate in Physics, she provided me the opportunity to work on a large-scale project to build a catalogue of gamma-ray burst (GRB) optical afterglow lightcurves.
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Hi, I am Kamil Kalinowski and I have just completed Master's degree at Aarhus University. I've been working with Maria mostly during my bachelor's degree at Jagiellonian University. I have contributed to the study of Fundamental Plane Correlations and to GRB observations from Kiso, with some of the data added to the GRB catalogue that was recently published.
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Hello! My name is Aleksandra Rabeda, and I am currently pursuing my Master's degree at Aarhus University. I started working with Maria Dainotti in 2020, where I contributed by developing Python scripts for the planning and execution of astronomical observations related to Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Most recently, our collaboration has led to the submission of a paper titled "GRB Redshift Estimation using Machine Learning and the Associated Web-App." This experience has been instrumental in advancing my skills in programming and astrophysical research.
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Hello, I am Spencer Gibson. I recently graduated with a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. I interned under Professor Dainotti at SLAC in 2020 and 2021. Together, we published three papers related to estimating the redshift of gamma-ray loud AGNs with machine learning. My current research focuses on computational biology including Bayesian statistics and its applications to machine learning and to estimating gene expression across cell-types in the human body. I am also working to prove theoretical runtime and accuracy bounds on the seed-chain-extend aligner under realistic assumptions.
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Greetings! My name is Anish Kalsi, and I am currently pursuing a master's in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Padova, Italy. I had the privilege of working with Dr. Maria Dainotti's group for a year on the machine learning project for classifying GRBs using UVOT and XRT data from the SWIFT satellite.
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Hello! I am Upasana Das, currently a final-year Integrated M.Sc. student majoring in Physics from the School of Physical Sciences at the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India. I worked with Maria from Jan 2023 to May 2024 on the paper "An Optical Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogue with Measured Redshift PART I: Data Release of 535 Gamma-Ray Bursts and Colour Evolution". It's my first paper where I was featured as a co-author, and it feels so rewarding to have been part of such a collaboration and contributed to something significant. I owe all of it to Maria and can't thank her enough for all her guidance. Read Upasana's testimonial about her working experience with Maria
I am Anargha Mondal, a third-year underraduate student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, majoring in Physics. I am broadly interested in the connections between fundamental physics and the large-scale structure of the universe. I collborated with Dr. Maria Dainotti to gain a solid understanding of how Type Ia Supernovae can be used as observational probes to investigate the Hubble Tension. It was a part of my summer project in 2024, and for this I spent roughly 3 weeks at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo.
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Hi, I am Kinshuk Jarial. I've been working with Maria since December 2024 and I've had the possibility to learn many new things in the astrophysics and cosmology field.
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Hello, I am Mudit Parakh, a second-year BS-MS student in Natural Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal. I am grateful to Dr. Maria Giovanna Dainotti for selecting me for the project "A New Master Supernovae Ia Sample and the Investigation of the H₀ Tension." Through this project, I have gained valuable insights into cosmology and the data analysis techniques involved in our research. Additionally, I have learned the intricacies of writing research papers and the key aspects to consider during the process. This experience has been incredibly enriching and has provided me with greater clarity about my future career path. Dr. Maria is an exceptional researcher and mentor who has guided me tremendously and imparted crucial knowledge essential for a career in research. She has also provided me with exciting research opportunities, and I look forward to collaborating with her again in the future.
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Hello, I am Rafid H. Dejrah, a researcher in theoretical cosmology. I first connected with Maria at the beginning of autumn 2024 and I received an invaluable guidance through the research world.
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Hello, I am Rohit Mandal, a 2nd-year MS student at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Kerala, India. I had the privilege of working with Dr. Maria Giovanna Dainotti on a project focused on Type Ia Supernova Cosmology.
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Hello, I am Tasneem Jareen. I began working as a Research Intern with Dr. Maria Giovanna Dainotti on a research project studying the Hubble constant tension in different catalogs of Type Ia Supernovae.
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Hi! My name is Leonardo C. Zambrano Tapia and I am an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester. I worked with Dr. Dainotti as a highschooler during 2020,2021 and 2021. These 3 years were formative and essential in my academic and professional growth. I was able to be featured in two of her research papers, one as an acknowledgment and the other as a co-author. This experience has given me the tools to contribute to every new study I have been a part of while also having the priviledge of being part of an amazing community.
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Hi! My name is Alexander R. Zambrano Tapia, a 2nd year undergrad at Johns Hopkins University. I began working with Dr. Dainotti in the summer of 2020 with her research on GRB, as I helped in data collection. I was featured in two of her research papers, one as an acknowledgment and the other as a co-author. This experience has shown me more about the scientific research community and motivated me to continue research even through my college life.
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Hi! My name is Logan Cham. I worked with Dr. Maria Dainotti primarily during the summer of 2023 on Part I of the GRB Catalogue. The fact that I was still a high schooler shows Dainotti's motive to help the younger generation earlier on. She was always kind and patient, while simultaneously keeping me on track with my tasks. It was also easy to ask for help and clarification when needed. Dainotti reinforced the confidence within me to do work well.