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Statistical Laboratory

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

STRONG LENS TIME DELAY CHALLENGE. II. RESULTS OF TDC1
K Liao, T Treu, P Marshall, CD Fassnacht, N Rumbaugh, G Dobler, A Aghamousa, V Bonvin, F Courbin, A Hojjati, N Jackson, V Kashyap, SR Kumar, E Linder, K Mandel, X-L Meng, G Meylan, LA Moustakas, TP Prabhu, A Romero-Wolf, A Shafieloo, A Siemiginowska, CS Stalin, H Tak, M Tewes, D van Dyk
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2015)
800,
11
TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA COLORS AND EJECTA VELOCITIES: HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN REGRESSION WITH NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS
KS Mandel, RJ Foley, RP Kirshner
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2014)
797,
75
Evidence for grain growth in molecular clouds: A Bayesian examination of the extinction law in Perseus
JB Foster, KS Mandel, JE Pineda, KR Covey, HG Arce, AA Goodman
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2012)
428,
1606
Berkeley Supernova Ia Program – I. Observations, data reduction and spectroscopic sample of 582 low-redshift Type Ia supernovae
JM Silverman, RJ Foley, AV Filippenko, M Ganeshalingam, AJ Barth, R Chornock, CV Griffith, JJ Kong, N Lee, DC Leonard, T Matheson, EG Miller, TN Steele, BJ Barris, JS Bloom, BE Cobb, AL Coil, L-B Desroches, EL Gates, LC Ho, SW Jha, MT Kandrashoff, W Li, KS Mandel, M Modjaz, MR Moore, RE Mostardi, MS Papenkova, S Park, DA Perley, D Poznanski, CA Reuter, J Scala, FJD Serduke, JC Shields, BJ Swift, JL Tonry, SD Van Dyk, X Wang, DS Wong
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2012)
425,
1789
THE SPECTROSCOPIC DIVERSITY OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE
S Blondin, T Matheson, RP Kirshner, KS Mandel, P Berlind, M Calkins, P Challis, PM Garnavich, SW Jha, M Modjaz, AG Riess, P Schmidt
– The Astronomical Journal
(2012)
143,
126
Confronting 2D delayed-detonation models with light curves and spectra of Type Ia supernovae
S Blondin, D Kasen, FK Roepke, RP Kirshner, KS Mandel
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2011)
417,
1280
TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA LIGHT CURVE INFERENCE: HIERARCHICAL MODELS IN THE OPTICAL AND NEAR-INFRARED
KS Mandel, G Narayan, RP Kirshner
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2011)
731,
120
Do spectra improve distance measurements of Type Ia supernovae?
S Blondin, KS Mandel, RP Kirshner
– Astronomy & Astrophysics
(2010)
526,
a81
Hubble residuals of nearby type Ia supernovae are correlated with host galaxy masses
PL Kelly, M Hicken, DL Burke, KS Mandel, RP Kirshner
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2010)
715,
743
TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA LIGHT-CURVE INFERENCE: HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN ANALYSIS IN THE NEAR-INFRARED
KS Mandel, WM Wood-Vasey, AS Friedman, RP Kirshner
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2009)
704,
629
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Research Group

Statistical Laboratory

Room

D1.07

Telephone

01223 337955