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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 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

First cosmology results using Type Ia supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: Simulations to correct supernova distance biases
R Kessler, D Brout, CB D'Andrea, TM Davis, SR Hinton, AG Kim, J Lasker, C Lidman, E Macaulay, A Moeller, M Sako, D Scolnic, M Smith, M Sullivan, B Zhang, P Andersen, J Asorey, A Avelino, J Calcino, D Carollo, P Challis, M Childress, A Clocchiatti, S Crawford, AV Filippenko et al.
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2019)
485,
1171
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz463)
First Cosmology Results Using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: Analysis, Systematic Uncertainties, and Validation
D Brout, D Scolnic, R Kessler, CB D'Andrea, TM Davis, RR Gupta, SR Hinton, AG Kim, J Lasker, C Lidman, E Macaulay, A Möller, RC Nichol, M Sako, M Smith, M Sullivan, B Zhang, P Andersen, J Asorey, A Avelino, BA Bassett, P Brown, J Calcino, D Carollo, P Challis et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2019)
874,
150
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab08a0)
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
– The 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 et al.
– Astrophysical Journal Letters
(2019)
872,
L30
(doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab04fa)
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)
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)
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 et al.
(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
– The 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
– The 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
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2018)
853,
39
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaa3fd)
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Research Groups

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
Statistical Laboratory
Statistics

Email

kmandel@statslab.cam.ac.uk

Room

D1.07

Telephone

01223 337955

Personal homepage

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~km723

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