Ed Shaya
Associate Research Scientist
College Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Shaya is an Associate Research Scientist and veteran astronomer with 11+ years leading computational studies of galactic dynamics, remote sensing, and image analysis at the University of Maryland. His career blends high-impact research and mission leadership—from a postdoc and faculty appointment at Caltech and Columbia to serving as PI on a key Space Interferometry Mission project and as Chief Scientist for NASA’s Astronomical Data Center. He specializes in large-scale computer simulations, scientific data modeling and archiving, and has hands-on experience building web interfaces and metadata standards for astronomical datasets (including early work on XTCE). Comfortable bridging academia, government labs, and mission teams, he brings both observational insight from Hubble-era imaging and deep computational expertise for extracting physical and chemical information from complex datasets.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Astrophysics, BA, Astrophysics at Princeton UniversityMA, Astrophysics, MA, Astrophysics at University of ChicagoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Github Skills (4)
planetary8
idl5
astronomy4
python4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
eshaya/PDS4-IDL
May 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
planetaryplanetary-databrowsingidlpds4
Small-Bodies-Node/PDS4-IDL
May 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 15 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 4 months
planetaryplanetary-databrowsingidlpds4
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