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Ashley Villar’s Proposal on Time-domain Astrophysics Anomaly Detection Secures Funding from the Harvard Data Science Initiative

  • Publication date December 14, 2023

Ashley Villar, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University Faculty of Arts & Sciences, was recently awarded funding through the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) Faculty Special Projects Fund for her pioneering proposal focusing on anomaly detection in time-domain astrophysics. Starting in 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will lead a ten-year campaign to image…

Harvard launches data science initiative

  • Publication date March 28, 2017

The new Harvard Data Science Initiative, led by co-directors David C. Parkes, George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science, and Francesca Dominici, senior associate dean for research at the Harvard Chan School, will unite efforts across the University to enable the development of cross-disciplinary methodologies and discovery of new applications…