Biography:Shirley Ho

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Short description: American cosmologist and astrophysicist
Shirley Ho
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, Princeton University
Known forCMB, dark matter, dark energy, BAO, Machine Learning in Astrophysics
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics, Cosmology
InstitutionsFlatiron Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University
ThesisBaryons, Universe and Everything Else in Between
Doctoral advisorDavid Spergel
Websitehttps://users.flatironinstitute.org/~sho/index.html

Shirley Ho is an American cosmologist and astrophysicist, currently at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (Flatiron Institute) in NYC and at the New York University and the Carnegie Mellon University.[1][2] Ho also has visiting appointment at Princeton University.

A cited expert in cosmology, machine learning applications in astrophysics and data science,[3] her interest are using deep learning accelerated simulations to understand the Universe, and other astrophysical phenomena.[4]

She significantly contributed to the development of several fields, including: cosmic microwave background,[5] cosmological models, dark energy, dark matter,[6][7] spatial distribution of galaxies and quasars,[8] Baryon Acoustic Oscillations,[9][10] cosmological simulations[11] and applications of machine learning to cosmology.[12][13] More recently, Shirley Ho has led her team on a series of papers on accelerating simulations using modern deep learning techniques.[14][15][16]

Education

After having completed a Bachelor of Arts (with Highest Honors) in Physics and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, Shirley Ho moved to Princeton University to pursue her Ph.D. at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences of Princeton Universitybetween 2004 and 2008.[1][17] Astrophysicist and cosmologist David Spergel was her advisor. In 2008 she obtained her Doctorate in Astrophysical Sciences, with a Thesis entitled "Baryons, Universe and Everything Else in Between".[1]

Career

After her Ph.D., she moved to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between 2008 and 2012, in a postdoctoral position as a Chamberlain and Seaborg Fellow.[1] Later on, she moved to the Carnegie Mellon University, first as an assistant professor and then as an associate (with indefinite tenure) professor in Physics. Shirley Ho became the Cooper-Siegel Chair Professor in 2015 at Carnegie Mellon University.[18]

In 2016, Shirley Ho joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Senior Scientist while being on leave from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2018, Shirley Ho joined the Simons Foundation as leader of the Cosmology X Data Science group[19] at Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute[20] in NYC. She also currently holds faculty positions at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Prizes

Shirley Ho won several prizes for her significant contributions to the fields of cosmology and astrophysics. The list includes:

  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2011) for contribution to Planck mission.
  • Macronix Prize (2014): The Outstanding Young Researcher Award by International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers.[21]
  • Carnegie Science Award (2015)[22]
  • Elected as International Astrostatistics Association Fellow, 2020.[23]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Shirley Ho" (in en-US). 2017-10-06. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/team/shirley-ho/. 
  2. ↑ "Homepage of Shirley Ho". https://users.flatironinstitute.org/~sho/index.html. 
  3. ↑ "Home". https://users.flatironinstitute.org/~sho/index.html. 
  4. ↑ "First AI Simulation of the Universe Is Fast and Accurate — and Its Creators Don't Know How It Works" (in en-US). 2019-06-26. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2019/06/26/ai-universe-simulation/. 
  5. ↑ Ho, Shirley; Hirata, Christopher; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Seljak, Uros; Bahcall, Neta (2008-08-01). "Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure. I. Integrated Sachs-Wolfe tomography and cosmological implications". Physical Review D 78 (4): 043519. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.043519. ISSN 1550-7998. Bibcode: 2008PhRvD..78d3519H. 
  6. ↑ Vagnozzi, Sunny; Giusarma, Elena; Mena, Olga; Freese, Katherine; Gerbino, Martina; Ho, Shirley; Lattanzi, Massimiliano (2017-12-01). "Unveiling $\ensuremath{\nu}$ secrets with cosmological data: Neutrino masses and mass hierarchy". Physical Review D 96 (12): 123503. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.123503. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.123503. 
  7. ↑ Ho, Shirley; Dedeo, Simon; Spergel, David (2009-03-01). "Finding the Missing Baryons Using CMB as a Backlight". arXiv:0903.2845 [astro-ph.CO].
  8. ↑ Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, Antonio; Seo, Hee-Jong; de Putter, Roland; Ross, Ashley J.; White, Martin; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Saito, Shun et al. (2012-12-01). "Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Photometric Luminous Galaxies: The Measurement, Systematics, and Cosmological Implications". The Astrophysical Journal 761 (1): 14. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/761/1/14. Bibcode: 2012ApJ...761...14H. 
  9. ↑ Anderson, Lauren; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen; Beutler, Florian; Bhardwaj, Vaishali; Blanton, Michael; Bolton, Adam S.; Brinkmann, J. et al. (2014-06-11). "The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Releases 10 and 11 Galaxy samples" (in en). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 441 (1): 24–62. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu523. ISSN 0035-8711. Bibcode: 2014MNRAS.441...24A. https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/441/1/24/978049. 
  10. ↑ Vargas-Magaña, Mariana; Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, Antonio J.; O'Connell, Ross; Ross, Ashley J.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Percival, Will J.; Grieb, Jan Niklas et al. (2018-06-11). "The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: theoretical systematics and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the galaxy correlation function". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477 (1): 1153–1188. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty571. ISSN 0035-8711. Bibcode: 2018MNRAS.477.1153V. 
  11. ↑ "The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate and its creators don't know how it works" (in en). https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190626133800.htm. 
  12. ↑ He, Siyu; Li, Yin; Feng, Yu; Ho, Shirley; Ravanbakhsh, Siamak; Chen, Wei; Póczos, Barnabás (2019-07-09). "Learning to predict the cosmological structure formation" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (28): 13825–13832. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821458116. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 31235606. PMC 6628645. Bibcode: 2019PNAS..11613825H. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/28/13825. 
  13. ↑ Wadekar, Digvijay; Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco; Ho, Shirley; Perreault-Levasseur, Laurence (2020-07-27). "HInet: Generating neutral hydrogen from dark matter with neural networks". arXiv:2007.10340 [astro-ph.CO].
  14. ↑ Tamayo, Daniel; Cranmer, Miles; Hadden, Samuel; Rein, Hanno; Battaglia, Peter; Obertas, Alysa; Armitage, Philip J.; Ho, Shirley et al. (2020-08-04). "Predicting the long-term stability of compact multiplanet systems" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (31): 18194–18205. doi:10.1073/pnas.2001258117. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 32675234. PMC 7414196. Bibcode: 2020PNAS..11718194T. https://www.pnas.org/content/117/31/18194. 
  15. ↑ Cranmer, Miles; Sanchez-Gonzalez, Alvaro; Battaglia, Peter; Xu, Rui; Cranmer, Kyle; Spergel, David; Ho, Shirley (2020-06-19). "Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases". arXiv:2006.11287 [cs.LG].
  16. ↑ Yip, Jacky H. T.; Zhang, Xinyue; Wang, Yanfang; Zhang, Wei; Sun, Yueqiu; Contardo, Gabriella; Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco; He, Siyu; Genel, Shy; Ho, Shirley (2019-10-17). "From Dark Matter to Galaxies with Convolutional Neural Networks". arXiv:1910.07813 [astro-ph.CO].
  17. ↑ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Shirley Ho - Department of Physics - Carnegie Mellon University" (in en). http://www.cmu.edu/physics/people/faculty/ho.html. 
  18. ↑ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Physicist Shirley Ho Receives Cooper-Siegel Professorship - Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University" (in en). http://www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-events/2015/0428-Cooper-Siegel-Shirley-Ho.html. 
  19. ↑ https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/center-for-computational-astrophysics/cosmology-x-data-science/
  20. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/science/flatiron-institute-james-simons-foundation.html
  21. ↑ "OYRA Award (MACRONIX PRIZE) | OCPA" (in en-US). http://ocpaweb.org/home/oyra-award-macronix-prize/. 
  22. ↑ University, Carnegie Mellon (January 2015). "Shirley Ho Wins Carnegie Science Award - Department of Physics - Carnegie Mellon University" (in en). http://www.cmu.edu/physics/news-events/news-archive/2015/carnegi-science-award.html. 
  23. ↑ https://twitter.com/AlanHeavens/status/1347554190139256833




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