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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. From 2023, I am Chair of the Astrostatistics Interest Group of the American Statistical Association. 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

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
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
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
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
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
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2023)
956,
111
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
– The Astrophysical Journal Letters
(2023)
952,
l23
Results of the Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)
R Hložek, AI Malz, KA Ponder, M Dai, G Narayan, EEO Ishida, TA AllamJr, A Bahmanyar, X Bi, R Biswas, K Boone, S Chen, N Du, A Erdem, L Galbany, A Garreta, SW Jha, DO Jones, R Kessler, M Lin, J Liu, M Lochner, AA Mahabal, KS Mandel, P Margolis, JR Martínez-Galarza, JD McEwen, D Muthukrishna, Y Nakatsuka, T Noumi, T Oya, HV Peiris, CM Peters, JF Puget, CN Setzer, Siddhartha, S Stefanov, T Xie, L Yan, KH Yeh, W Zuo
– Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
(2023)
267,
25
A BayeSN distance ladder: H0 from a consistent modelling of Type Ia supernovae from the optical to the near-infrared
S Dhawan, S Thorp, KS Mandel, SM Ward, G Narayan, SW Jha, T Chant
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2023)
524,
235
Evidence for a Massive Andromeda Galaxy Using Satellite Galaxy Proper Motions
E Patel, KS Mandel
– The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics
(2023)
948,
104
The Magnificent Five Images of Supernova Refsdal: Time Delay and Magnification Measurements
P Kelly, S Rodney, T Treu, S Birrer, V Bonvin, L Dessart, R Foley, A Filippenko, D Gilman, S Jha, J Hjorth, K Mandel, M Millon, J Pierel, S Thorp, A Zitrin, T Broadhurst, W Chen, J Diego, A Dressler, O Graur, M Jauzac, M Malkan, C McCully, M Oguri, M Postman, K Schmidt, K Sharon, B Tucker, A van der Linden, J Wambganss
– Astrophysical Journal
(2023)
948,
93
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