I am lucky to of had the opportunity to collaborate with many incredibly talented young students and post-docs. Here are some of the topics that we have worked on together and where former group members and collaborators are now.

Current

Song Huang (post-doc). Song specializes (among many other things!) in analyzing the light profiles of galaxies. Song and I have collaborated together on many aspects of the analysis of HSC (Hyper Suprime Cam Data). Following up from work by Claire Lackner, Song developed SynPipe (Huang et al. 2018a), a versatile and very useful tool for quantifying the photometric performance of the HSC pipeline. We have been having a tremendous amount of fun using HSC data to probe the connection between the light profiles of super massive galaxies and their dark matter halos (Huang et al 2018b, Huang et al. 2018c, Huang et al. 2019).

Enia Xhakaj (graduate). Enia is working on understanding how well the splash-radius and halo accretions rates can be measured from gravitational lensing data. And we are excited that she will be soon be working with DESI data!

Christopher Bradshaw (graduate). Chris is our local coding guru. He is currently working on understanding the origin of the scatter in the stellar-to-halo mass relation. Chris will also soon be working with DESI data.

Felipe Ardila (graduate). Felipe is working on comparisons between the light profiles of HSC galaxies and hydro simulations such as Illustris and TNG. Our goal moving forward with these types of comparisons is to try and improve constraints on baryonic effects.

Yifei Luo (graduate). Yifei just joined our group and will be working on understanding how to select large samples of dwarf galaxies from deep surveys such as HSC and then LSST and WFIRST.

Greg Sallaberry (under-graduate). Greg is working on understanding what the fraction of satellites are among super massive galaxies.

Rajdipa Chowdhury (under-graduate). Rajdipa is using data from Illustris to study the in-situ and ex-situ components of massive galaxies.

Runquan Guan (under-graduate). Runquan is also working on understanding how to select large samples of dwarf galaxies from deep surveys

Former

Shun Saito (post-doc). Shun and I worked together on understanding the mass functions, clustering, and lensing, of BOSS galaxies (Saito et al. 2016). Shun was  awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at MPA and has now joined the faculty at Missouri S&T.

Claire Lackner (post-doc). Claire and I worked together on the early version of SynPipe. Claire is now a senior data scientist at Netflix.

Alessandro Sonnenfeld (post-doc). Alessandro and I worked together on developing new ways of measuring galaxy-galaxy lensing using hierarchical Bayes methods. We have a paper describing this new methodology  (Sonnenfeld et al 2018) as well as a paper applying this methodology to data (Sonnenfeld et al. 2018b).

Matt George (graduate). We worked together on multiple projects related to galaxy formation in groups, and mis-centering (George et al. 2011, George et al. 2012, George et al. 2013). Matt now works for a commercial drone company called Airware.

Masato Kobayashi (graduate). We worked together with Surhud More to try and understand how far weak lensing can be pushed to small scales. Masato’s predictions show that small scale lensing (while challenging to measure) will have a very high signal-to-noise with future suveys (Kobayashi et al. 2015). Masato is now a graduate student at the university of Nagoya.

Hanako Hoshino (graduate). We worked together with Surhud More to try and understand whether direct estimates from clusters, and clustering constraints, give consistent answers for the Halo Occupation Distribution (Hoshino et al. 2015). They do not! A strong anticorrelation between central luminosity and cluster mass at fixed richness would be required to reconcile our results with those based on clustering studies.