2025
Mentored an undergraduate researcher through the LSST Strong Lens Data Challenge, ending in a presentation at the Fall 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Bryce Wedig
PhD candidate in physics at Washington University in St. Louis, working with Professor Tansu Daylan on what galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses can tell us about the nature of dark matter
Published 2025
The Roman View of Strong Gravitational Lenses
Forecasting the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's galaxy-scale strong lens population and what it will tell us about small-scale dark matter
Ongoing
Maximizing JWST and Roman Dark Matter Science with Strong Gravitational Lensing
NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) award
In prep
Forecasting Dark Matter Substructure Detections with NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory
Simulating high-signal-to-noise strong lens observations from NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory to forecast dark matter substructure detections
Completed 2025
Searching for Strong Lenses with Convolutional Neural Networks
Mentoring an undergraduate to a 98.1/100 score in the LSST Strong Lens Data Challenge
Software
GITHUB →mejiro
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Lead Developer
Pipeline to simulate diffraction-limited telescope images of strong gravitational lenses
SLSim · lenstronomy · pyHalo · GalSim · romanisim
lsst-strong-lens-data-challenge
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Mentor
Strong lens classifier that scored 98.1/100 in the LSST Strong Lens Data Challenge
TensorFlow
ExoCore
Contributor
Exoplanet research and training modules for undergraduate and graduate students, part of NASA Open Science
Jupyter
Publications
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Outreach & science policy
Organizing Member, Scientist Network for Advancing Policy
The Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) is a nationwide coalition of early-career scientists bridging science and community.
Member SNAPshot →Speaking science to power
On how graduate students can advocate for science, in WashU Arts & Sciences' Ampersand
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