Hugo聽Ayala
Assistant Research Professor at Temple University
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolHugo Ayala is an Assistant Research Professor and Ph.D. physicist with a decade of experience building and operating real-time, large-scale multimessenger astrophysics systems. He specializes in observational astrophysics, applying statistical, optimization, and simulation methods鈥攂oth frequentist and Bayesian鈥攖o detect and characterize gamma-ray and neutrino sources across heterogeneous datasets. At Penn State he helped build and maintain the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) and contributed to the HAWC and IceCube collaborations, coordinating extragalactic and multimessenger analyses. Comfortable leading small teams within large collaborations, he balances hands-on data engineering with deep analysis skills and a knack for turning noisy streams into actionable candidate events. Based in State College, he pairs rigorous academic training with operational experience running real-time pipelines that prioritize discovery under uncertainty.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, Astrophysics, PhD, Physics, Astrophysics at Michigan Technological UniversityIngeniero F铆sico Industrial, Ingeniero F铆sico Industrial at Instituto Tecnol贸gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (22)
xspec9
spectral8
hugo-theme8
documentation-theme8
astronomy8
modeling-tool8
shortcode8
hugo7
python7
cosmology6
documentation5
program-analysis5
data-analysis5
spatial5
astrology5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hayalaso/astromodels
May 2017 - Feb 2021
Spatial and spectral models for astrophysics
Contributions:196 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 9 months
astrophysicsspatialhierarchicalcosmologyspectral
AMONCode/Analysis
Nov 2017 - Jan 2022
Repository for the AMON software
Contributions:1 release, 738 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 2 months
program-analysisanalysis
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