Joshua Speagle
Assistant Professor Of Astrostatistics
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJoshua Speagle is an Assistant Professor of Astrostatistics at the University of Toronto who builds statistical and computational methods to extract scientific insight from large, noisy datasets, primarily in astrophysics. With a PhD from Harvard and a decade of research experience spanning postdoctoral fellowships, international collaborations, and a brief industry research stint, he blends rigorous Bayesian and machine-learning approaches with domain expertise in astronomy. He has advised and collaborated across leading institutions (including Kavli IPMU and the Center for Astrophysics) and is comfortable moving between academia and quantitative industry settings. Known for translating complex probabilistic ideas into practical pipelines, he focuses on learning from data rather than just modeling it, and often brings cross-disciplinary perspectives informed by both physics and statistics.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy at Harvard UniversityWisconsin Lutheran CollegeUniversity of Wisconsin-Waukesha
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
sampling10
pure-python10
bayesian10
monte-carlo10
bayesian-inference10
hierarchical9
python9
galaxy9
modeling9
stellar9
open-access8
photo8
journal8
spectra7
academia7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joshspeagle/frankenz
Oct 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:169 commits, 1 PR, 131 pushes in 2 years
pythonhierarchicalmachine-learningfittinglikelihood
joshspeagle/bio-cv
Sep 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
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