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Faculty of Mathematics

 

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 Past Chair of the Astrostatistics Interest Group of the American Statistical Association and a Turing Fellow Alumnus of The Alan Turing Institute. My research interests lie at the intersections of astrophysics, cosmology, statistics, and machine learning.

Research Interests: Astrostatistics and astroinformatics, Applications in time-domain astronomy and cosmology, Bayesian modeling and inference, Statistical computation

 

Publications

MOSFiT: Modular Open Source Fitter for Transients
J Guillochon, M Nicholl, VA Villar, B Mockler, G Narayan, KS Mandel, E Berger, PKG Williams
– The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
(2018)
236,
6
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
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
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2018)
853,
39
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
– Astrophysical Journal
(2017)
842,
93
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
Orbits of massive satellite galaxies – II. Bayesian estimates of the Milky Way and Andromeda masses using high-precision astrometry and cosmological simulations
E Patel, G Besla, K Mandel
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2017)
468,
3428
SN 2012cg: EVIDENCE for INTERACTION between A NORMAL SN Ia and A NON-DEGENERATE BINARY COMPANION
GH Marion, PJ Brown, J Vinkó, JM Silverman, DJ Sand, P Challis, RP Kirshner, JC Wheeler, P Berlind, WR Brown, ML Calkins, Y Camacho, G Dhungana, RJ Foley, AS Friedman, ML Graham, DA Howell, EY Hsiao, JM Irwin, SW Jha, R Kehoe, LM Macri, K Maeda, K Mandel, C McCully et al.
– Astrophysical Journal
(2016)
820,
92
CONSTRUCTING A FLEXIBLE LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION FOR SPECTROSCOPIC INFERENCE
I Czekala, SM Andrews, KS Mandel, DW Hogg, GM Green
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2015)
812,
128
CfAIR2: NEAR-INFRARED LIGHT CURVES OF 94 TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE
AS Friedman, WM Wood-Vasey, GH Marion, P Challis, KS Mandel, JS Bloom, M Modjaz, G Narayan, M Hicken, RJ Foley, CR Klein, DL Starr, A Morgan, A Rest, CH Blake, AA Miller, EE Falco, WF Wyatt, J Mink, MF Skrutskie, RP Kirshner
– The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
(2015)
220,
9
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 et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2015)
800,
11
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Research Groups

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
Statistical Laboratory
Statistics

Room

D1.07

Telephone

01223 337955