Joshua Foster
Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Foster is an assistant professor and former Schramm Fellow specializing in the intersection of simulation, statistics, and machine learning to probe new fundamental physics. With eight years of research experience spanning MIT, Fermilab, and the University of Michigan PhD program, he focuses on the statistics and phenomenology of dark matter, dark sectors, and gravitational waves. He blends theoretical astrophysics with practical computational methods to design sensitive searches and interpret complex signals. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he brings a track record of postdoctoral fellowships that bridge high-energy theory and data-driven inference, often leveraging simulation-forward approaches not commonly used in traditional particle phenomenology.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Math, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Math at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (5)
cosmology8
astrodynamics7
random-walk7
python6
pytorch4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bsafdi/AxiScan
Jul 2017 - Apr 2019
A likelihood framework for axion direct detection
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 9 months
directlikelihood
joshwfoster/ABRA_Clean
Apr 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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