Biography

Gautham Narayan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are at the intersection of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics, cosmology, statistics and data science. He works on wide-field surveys developing machine learning methods for real-time detection and classification of variable and transient sources, Bayesian models for cosmological inference with type Ia supernovae, understanding the host galaxies of transients, and establishing an all-sky network of faint spectrophotometric standards for LSST, WFIRST and future projects.

He is one of the organizers of Astronomy on Tap, Champaign-Urbana, and a former organizer of Astronomy on Tap, Tucson, does podcasts, public talks, panels at sci-fi conventions (Robots! Sci-fi space battles! Gustav Holst’s Planets suite and more!), volunteers with local STEM clubs, and works get people as excited about science as he is.

I have been an instructor at the:

• ZTF Summer School, Pasadena, Aug. 2018
• LSST Data Science Fellowship Program, Session 5, Baltimore, Jan. 2018
• LSST Data Science Fellowship Program, Session 3, Tucson, Apr. 2017
• NOAO Teen Astronomy Cafe, How Stars Die, Tucson, Nov. 2017
• NOAO Big Data Workshop for Tucson High School Students, Jan. 2017
• Python Workshop for NOAO/NSO REU Students, Tucson, 2014 & 2015
• Teaching Fellow/Teaching Assistant/Tutor for introductory physics and astrophysics classes, electronics, and experimental physics

Please see my CV for a list of students I have mentored.

• Probing Supernovae Progenitors with Early-time Light Curves from K2
• The Lives and Deaths of Stars, Youth For Astronomy and Engineering
• ANTARES - Coping with Streaming Data, LSST Data Science Fellowship Program Session 3