CosmicAI

Team Member Highlight! Arya Farahi, an assistant professor of statistics & data sciences at @UTAustin is the director of the D3 Research Lab and the AI lead of the Explainable Universe team. His research focuses on developing AI methodologies to accelerate scientific discovery.

Speaker Highlight! Eric Murphy is a Tenured, Full-Astronomer at @TheNRAO, & holds a Visiting Faculty appointment at @UVA. At NRAO, he serves as the next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) Project Scientist. He is a co-PI of CosmicAI & the Observable Universe Astronomy lead.

CosmicAI PI and Director Dr. Stella Offner represented CosmicAI on a panel at #ScienceSummit hosted by @scsp_ai She spoke alongside Dr. Mike Williams, Dr. Zhao Huimin, and Erion Plaku about Powering Innovation at the Intersection of AI & Science. @NSF

Next week, CosmicAI PI and Director Stella Offner will speak at the #ScienceSummit, hosted by Special Competitive Studies Project - @scsp_ai on Powering Innovation at the Intersection of AI & Science Learn more web.cvent.com/event/370695fe…

Meet Paul Torrey - a Professor of Astronomy at UVA focused on understanding the physics that drives galaxy formation. His research group builds models of the Universe that let us question what we think we know about Dark Matter, and how it impacts what we see in the night sky.

Cosmic Horizons Speaker Highlight! Qingyun Wang is a UIUC PhD and incoming William & Mary assistant professor. He is among the first researchers to develop a virtual scientific research assistant for literature-based discovery. @eagle_hz @hengjinlp @WMdatascience

CosmicAI Student Highlight! Nina De La Torre shares her research on reduced vs. full Chemical Networks @UTAustin

Learn about our AI Graduate Certificate Program! In partnership with the UT Austin Computer and Data Science Online program, we’re offering accessible AI/ML training for the Astronomy community. Applications are now open! cosmicai.org/graduatecertif…

Astro-AI Boot Camp Instructor Highlight! Dr. Gabriel Jaffe is a computational scientist and experimental physicist. His current research is focused on the problem-solving capabilities of agentic AI frameworks and his past worked delved into the dynamics of atomic-scale heat flow.

CosmicAI Opportunity at NRAO! Instructor and TAs Needed for the CosmicAI Virtual Winter School! Learn more superknova.org/student-opport… @TheNRAO

Cosmic Horizons Speaker Highlight! Prof. Peter Melchior (Princeton University) seeks to find new data-driven insights from large astronomical surveys programs by creating novel methods for data analysis and the design of observations. @Princeton

We're hiring! CosmicAI is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate at NSF NOIRLab to advance AI + astronomy research. Apply by July 15: cosmicai.org/jobs/postdocto… @NOIRLabAstro

Our AI Graduate Certificate Program has launched! In partnership with the UT Austin Computer and Data Science Online program, we’re offering accessible AI/ML training for the Astronomy community. Applications are now open! cosmicai.org/graduatecertif… Please repost to your network!

Cosmic Horizons Speaker Highlight! Dr. Lindsay House created the NASA Zooniverse CitSci Project, Dark Energy Explorers. Her talk combined citizen science with machine learning to improve a major Dark Energy Experiment! Join zooniverse.org/projects (search Dark Energy Explorers)!

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As part of the Simons Foundation’s Open Interval award, @SusanScafati collaborates with Stella Offner & Bobby Garza of the Long Center, “mining light, matter, and meaning.” This collaboration is supported by the Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division @SimonsFdn

CosmicAI Director Stella Offner, artist @SusanScafati & Bobby Garza of the Long Center for Performing Arts, are recipients of the Simons Foundation’s Open Interval award, supporting interdisciplinary exploration across art & science! This collaboration is supported by @SimonsFdn

CosmicAI collab: benchmarking the utility of LLMs in astronomy coding workflows & focusing on the key research capability of scientific visualization. @sebajoed @jessyjli @Murtazahusaintx @gregd_nlp @StephaJuneau @paultorrey9 Adam Bolton, Stella Offner, Juan Frias, Niall Gaffney

CosmicAI PI and Director Stella Offner will be a keynote speaker at the WeTeach_CS Summit 2025 Tuesday, June 10th. She will be talking about "Forming Stars Inside Supercomputers!” Learn more weteachcssummit2025.sched.com/event/1yO41/pl… @weteachcs #WTCS2025

CosmicAI postdoctoral scholar Sanjana Gautam is exploring the role of AI-powered research assistants, which integrate LLMs into interactive notebook environments, in supporting scientific workflows across various disciplines. She's looking for participants in her study