Antara Basu-zych
Associate Research Scientist
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAntara Basu-zych is an Associate Research Scientist with a decade of experience probing starburst and high-redshift-analog galaxies through multi-wavelength observations, with particular expertise in X-ray studies of low-metallicity, UV-selected systems. Based at UMBC and collaborating with NASA Goddard’s HEASARC, she combines research on galaxy evolution, ionized gas kinematics, and X-ray binary populations with hands-on archive and mission support for NuSTAR, XMM, ART-XC and eROSITA. Her work leverages local Lyman Break Analog samples to infer conditions in the early Universe, asking how high-mass X-ray binaries and young starbursts influenced intergalactic heating and feedback. Beyond research, she has a track record of coordinating community programs and maintaining major astronomical archives, bridging observational science and mission-era data stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, Astronomy, BA, Physics, Astronomy at University of California, BerkeleyPhD, Astronomy, PhD, Astronomy at Columbia University in the City of New York
Bengali
Github Skills (10)
binder10
python8
machine-learning3
jupyter2
data-science2
jupyterlab2
jupyter-notebook2
notebook2
scikit-learn1
data-analysis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
abasuzych/navo-workshop
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Tutorial notebooks for how to use PyVO to access NASA and other data in Python.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
notebookspythonnasa
EmmaTKl/research
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
Research
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
pythonmachine-learning
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