Kartheik Iyer
Flatiron Research Fellow CCA
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKartheik Iyer is a NASA Hubble–supported astrophysicist and Flatiron Research Fellow at CCA who builds and applies novel computational and machine learning methods to reconstruct galaxies' star formation histories from telescope data. With a decade of research experience across Columbia, Dunlap, and Rutgers, he develops widely used tools like Dense Basis and GP-SFH and co-founded UniverseTBD to broaden access to astronomy via AI. He works on large collaborative surveys (CANDELS, CEERS, CANUCS) and played a role in discovering one of the earliest Milky Way–like galaxies using JWST, highlighting his knack for turning cutting-edge data into discovery. Equally committed to open science and inclusive mentoring, he also creates researcher tools for navigating literature (pfdr.app), bridging astrophysics, statistics, and software engineering to probe stochastic star formation across scales.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics and Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Github Skills (15)
sed5
bayesian3
modeling3
collector3
transformers2
ras2
pdf1
pdf-files1
pdf-document1
ctransformers1
gaia1
ai1
astronomy1
langchain1
llm1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kartheikiyer/kartheikiyer.github.io
Oct 2019 - Dec 2024
research website
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
research-website
kartheikiyer/SEDfitting_code_comparison
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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