Fabo Feng
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carnegie Institution for Science
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolFabo Feng is a postdoctoral researcher with nine years of experience in exoplanet detection, currently leading radial-velocity studies at the Earth and Planets Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Maryland. He has coauthored papers in Science and Nature, contributed to high-impact ApJ publications, and is credited with discovering over 20 exoplanets, including multiple candidates in habitable zones. Fabo develops high-precision analysis tools—most notably PEXO, which models radial velocities to mm/s, timing to nanoseconds, and astrometry to microarcseconds—enabling searches for Earth analogs and applications from pulsar timing to tests of relativity. His prior postdoc at the University of Hertfordshire produced the Agatha web app and the "Goldilocks principle" for time-series model selection, reflecting a strong blend of algorithm design and practical software delivery. Trained in China and Germany, he bridges academic rigor with production-grade tooling to push detection limits in observational astrophysics.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Physics, A, Bachelor's degree, Physics, A at Wuhan UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Astrophysics, A, Master of Science (MSc), Astrophysics, A at Nanjing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy and Astrophysics at Heidelberg University
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (7)
radial9
modeling5
google-cloud1
data-science1
astronomy1
pipeline1
data-processing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phillippro/agatha
Jan 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:80 commits, 92 pushes in 4 years 4 months
phillippro/Agatha2.0
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Agatha 2.0
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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