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Professor Kaisey Mandel

I am the Professor of Astrostatistics and Data Science at the University of Cambridge. I hold this interdisciplinary faculty position jointly at the Statistical Laboratory of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, and at the Institute of Astronomy. As of 2024, I am the Past Chair of the Astrostatistics Interest Group of the American Statistical Association, a member of the Council of the International Astrostatistics Association, and Turing Fellow Alumnus of The Alan Turing Institute. I am a founder and co-organiser of the Cambridge Astro Data Science Discussion Group. My research interests lie at the intersections of astrophysics, cosmology, statistics, and machine learning, and include:

  • Astrostatistics, astronomical machine learning, astroinformatics
  • Statistical applications in time-domain astronomy and cosmology
  • Bayesian modelling and inference
  • Statistical computation

Publications

Scalable hierarchical BayeSN inference: investigating dependence of SN Ia host galaxy dust properties on stellar mass and redshift
M Grayling, S Thorp, KS Mandel, S Dhawan, ASM Uzsoy, BM Boyd, EE Hayes, SM Ward
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2024)
531,
953
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae1202)
gausSN: Bayesian time-delay estimation for strongly lensed supernovae
EE Hayes, S Thorp, KS Mandel, N Arendse, M Grayling, S Dhawan
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2024)
530,
3942
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae1086)
Using rest-frame optical and NIR data from the RAISIN survey to explore the redshift evolution of dust laws in SN Ia host galaxies
S Thorp, KS Mandel, DO Jones, RP Kirshner, PM Challis
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2024)
530,
4016
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae1111)
SIDE-real: Supernova Ia Dust Extinction with truncated marginal neural ratio estimation applied to real data
K Karchev, M Grayling, BM Boyd, R Trotta, KS Mandel, C Weniger
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2024)
530,
3881
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae995)
Flight of the Bumblebee: the Early Excess Flux of Type Ia Supernova 2023bee Revealed by TESS, Swift, and Young Supernova Experiment Observations
Q Wang, A Rest, G Dimitriadis, R Ridden-Harper, MR Siebert, M Magee, CR Angus, K Auchettl, KW Davis, RJ Foley, OD Fox, S Gomez, JE Jencson, DO Jones, CD Kilpatrick, JDR Pierel, AL Piro, A Polin, CA Politsch, C Rojas-Bravo, M Shahbandeh, VA Villar, Y Zenati, C Ashall, KC Chambers, DA Coulter, T de Boer, N DiLullo, C Gall, H Gao, EY Hsiao, ME Huber, L Izzo, N Khetan, N LeBaron, EA Magnier, KS Mandel, P McGill, HY Miao, YC Pan, CP Stevens, JJ Swift, K Taggart, G Yang
– Astrophysical Journal
(2024)
962,
17
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0edb)
Keck Infrared Transient Survey. I. Survey Description and Data Release 1
S Tinyanont, RJ Foley, K Taggart, KW Davis, N LeBaron, JE Andrews, MJ Bustamante-Rosell, Y Camacho-Neves, R Chornock, DA Coulter, L Galbany, SW Jha, CD Kilpatrick, LA Kwok, C Larison, JR Pierel, MR Siebert, G Aldering, K Auchettl, JS Bloom, S Dhawan, AV Filippenko, KD French, A Gagliano, M Grayling, DA Howell, WV Jacobson-Galán, DO Jones, X Le Saux, P Macias, KS Mandel, C McCully, E Padilla Gonzalez, A Rest, J Rho, C Rojas-Bravo, MF Skrutskie, S Thorp, Q Wang, SM Ward
– Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
(2024)
136,
014201
(doi: 10.1088/1538-3873/ad1b39)
Avoiding methane emission rate underestimates when using the divergence method
C Roberts, R IJzermans, D Randell, M Jones, P Jonathan, K Mandel, B Hirst, O Shorttle
– Environmental Research Letters
(2023)
18,
114033
(doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad0252)
BIRD-SNACK: Bayesian inference of dust law RV distributions using SN Ia apparent colours at peak
SM Ward, S Dhawan, KS Mandel, M Grayling, S Thorp
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2023)
526,
5715
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad3159)
Relative Intrinsic Scatter in Hierarchical Type Ia Supernova Sibling Analyses: Application to SNe 2021hpr, 1997bq, and 2008fv in NGC 3147
SM Ward, S Thorp, KS Mandel, S Dhawan, DO Jones, K Taggart, RJ Foley, G Narayan, KC Chambers, DA Coulter, KW Davis, T de Boer, K de Soto, N Earl, A Gagliano, H Gao, J Hjorth, ME Huber, L Izzo, D Langeroodi, EA Magnier, P McGill, A Rest, C Rojas-Bravo, R Wojtak
– Astrophysical Journal
(2023)
956,
111
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acf7bb)
SN 2023ixf in Messier 101: A Variable Red Supergiant as the Progenitor Candidate to a Type II Supernova
CD Kilpatrick, RJ Foley, WV Jacobson-Galán, AL Piro, SJ Smartt, MR Drout, A Gagliano, C Gall, J Hjorth, DO Jones, KS Mandel, R Margutti, E Ramirez-Ruiz, CL Ransome, VA Villar, DA Coulter, H Gao, DJ Matthews, K Taggart, Y Zenati
– Astrophysical Journal Letters
(2023)
952,
l23
(doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ace4ca)
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Frontpage talks

Cambridge Statistics Clinic
MR14 at the CMS
Cambridge Statistics Clinic
MR15 at the CMS
Cambridge Statistics Clinic
MR5 at the CMS
Statistics
Stefan Wager (Stanford University)
13
Mar
16:00 - 17:00: Title to be confirmed
Peter Whittle Lecture
Rina Roygel Barber (Chicago)

Research Group

Statistical Laboratory

Email

kmandel@statslab.cam.ac.uk

Room

D1.07

Telephone

01223 337955

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