Congratulations to CITA Post Doctoral Fellow Biprateep Dey, who was recently distinguished with an Outstanding Dissertation Award by the Topical Group on Data Science (GDS) of the American Physical Society (APS).
Biprateep is an 聽at the聽聽and the聽聽at the聽. He also holds joint appointments at the聽Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)聽as a CITA fellow and at the聽聽as a Dunlap Fellow.
Dr. Dey obtained his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in the summer of 2024 with his award-winning dissertation The thesis addresses the challenges of established photometric redshift estimation techniques by leveraging modern statistical machine-learning tools to improve photometric redshift estimation. Photometric redshifts are estimates of the distances to other galaxies obtained from imaging data only.
鈥淚 am deeply honored to receive the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Physical Society’s Topical Group on Data Science鈥�, shares Dr. Dey. 鈥淭his recognition affirms the importance of interdisciplinary research that successfully combines the tools and methodologies of astrophysics and statistical machine learning.鈥�
His work at CITA involves developing statistical machine-learning tools to study the formation and evolution of the Universe and the galaxies within. He also works on designing large astronomical sky surveys which enable such statistical studies and has been recognised as a 鈥溾�� of the聽聽collaboration for his 鈥渙utstanding contributions to the target selection and leadership of the ECS committee鈥�.
