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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

Subpercent Photometry: Faint DA White Dwarf Spectrophotometric Standards for Astrophysical Observatories
G Narayan, T Matheson, A Saha, T Axelrod, A Calamida, E Olszewski, J Claver, KS Mandel, RC Bohlin, JB Holberg, S Deustua, A Rest, CW Stubbs, CE Shanahan, AL Vaz, A Zenteno, G Strampelli, I Hubeny, S Points, E Sabbi, J Mackenty
– Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
(2019)
241,
20
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab0557)
First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters
TMC Abbott, S Allam, P Andersen, C Angus, J Asorey, A Avelino, S Avila, BA Bassett, K Bechtol, GM Bernstein, E Bertin, D Brooks, D Brout, P Brown, DL Burke, J Calcino, AC Rosell, D Carollo, MC Kind, J Carretero, R Casas, FJ Castander, R Cawthon, P Challis, M Childress, A Clocchiatti, CE Cunha, CB D’Andrea, LN da Costa, C Davis, TM Davis, J De Vicente, DL DePoy, S Desai, HT Diehl, P Doel, A Drlica-Wagner, TF Eifler, AE Evrard, E Fernandez, AV Filippenko, DA Finley, B Flaugher, RJ Foley, P Fosalba, J Frieman, L Galbany, J García-Bellido, E Gaztanaga, T Giannantonio, K Glazebrook, DA Goldstein, S González-Gaitán, D Gruen, RA Gruendl, J Gschwend, RR Gupta, G Gutierrez, WG Hartley, SR Hinton, DL Hollowood, K Honscheid, JK Hoormann, B Hoyle, DJ James, T Jeltema, MWG Johnson, MD Johnson, E Kasai, S Kent, R Kessler, AG Kim, RP Kirshner, E Kovacs, E Krause, R Kron, K Kuehn, S Kuhlmann, N Kuropatkin, O Lahav, J Lasker, GF Lewis, TS Li, C Lidman, M Lima, H Lin, E Macaulay, MAG Maia, KS Mandel, M March, J Marriner, JL Marshall, P Martini, F Menanteau, CJ Miller, R Miquel, V Miranda, JJ Mohr, E Morganson, D Muthukrishna, A Möller, E Neilsen, RC Nichol, B Nord, P Nugent, RLC Ogando, A Palmese, Y-C Pan, AA Plazas, M Pursiainen, AK Romer, A Roodman, E Rozo, ES Rykoff, M Sako, E Sanchez, V Scarpine, R Schindler, M Schubnell, D Scolnic, S Serrano, I Sevilla-Noarbe, R Sharp, M Smith, M Soares-Santos, F Sobreira, NE Sommer, H Spinka, E Suchyta, M Sullivan, E Swann, G Tarle, D Thomas, RC Thomas, MA Troxel, BE Tucker, SA Uddin, AR Walker, W Wester, P Wiseman, RC Wolf, B Yanny, B Zhang, Y Zhang
– Astrophysical Journal Letters
(2019)
872,
L30
(doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab04fa)
Extending Supernova Spectral Templates for Next-generation Space Telescope Observations
JDR Pierel, S Rodney, A Avelino, F Bianco, AV Filippenko, RJ Foley, A Friedman, M Hicken, R Hounsell, SW Jha, R Kessler, RP Kirshner, K Mandel, G Narayan, D Scolnic, L Strolger
– Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
(2018)
130,
114504
(doi: 10.1088/1538-3873/aadb7a)
Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints
R Hounsell, D Scolnic, RJ Foley, R Kessler, V Miranda, A Avelino, RC Bohlin, AV Filippenko, J Frieman, SW Jha, PL Kelly, RP Kirshner, K Mandel, A Rest, AG Riess, SA Rodney, L Strolger
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2018)
867,
23
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac08b)
The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC): Data set
The PLAsTiCC team, T Allam, A Bahmanyar, R Biswas, M Dai, L Galbany, R Hložek, EEO Ishida, SW Jha, DO Jones, R Kessler, M Lochner, AA Mahabal, AI Malz, KS Mandel, JR Martínez-Galarza, JD McEwen, D Muthukrishna, G Narayan, H Peiris, CM Peters, K Ponder, CN Setzer, TLDES Collaboration, TL Transients, VSS Collaboration
(2018)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.00001)
MOSFiT: Modular Open Source Fitter for Transients
J Guillochon, M Nicholl, VA Villar, B Mockler, G Narayan, KS Mandel, E Berger, PKG Williams
– Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
(2018)
236,
6
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/aab761)
Estimating the Mass of the Milky Way Using the Ensemble of Classical Satellite Galaxies
E Patel, G Besla, K Mandel, ST Sohn
– Astrophysical Journal
(2018)
857,
78
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aab78f)
A Dependence of the Tidal Disruption Event Rate on Global Stellar Surface Mass Density and Stellar Velocity Dispersion
O Graur, KD French, HJ Zahid, J Guillochon, KS Mandel, K Auchettl, AI Zabludoff
– Astrophysical Journal
(2018)
853,
39
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaa3fd)
The Type Ia Supernova Color–Magnitude Relation and Host Galaxy Dust: A Simple Hierarchical Bayesian Model
KS Mandel, DM Scolnic, H Shariff, RJ Foley, RP Kirshner
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2017)
842,
93
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6038)
Disentangling Time-series Spectra with Gaussian Processes: Applications to Radial Velocity Analysis
I Czekala, KS Mandel, SM Andrews, JA Dittmann, SK Ghosh, BT Montet, ER Newton
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2017)
840,
49
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6aab)
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Statistical Laboratory

Email

kmandel@statslab.cam.ac.uk

Room

D1.07

Telephone

01223 337955

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