Rachel Mandelbaum
Department Head In Physics at Carnegie Mellon University Mellon College of Science
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRachel Mandelbaum is an observational cosmologist and physics department head at Carnegie Mellon University with 13 years of professional experience and a trajectory from Hubble Fellow to senior faculty and institutional leadership. She specializes in measuring cosmic structure growth from imaging surveys, developing robust analysis software and improving pipelines with machine learning and data-science techniques. As CMU PI for LINCC Frameworks she bridges collaborative research infrastructure and practical data analysis, translating cutting-edge methods into reproducible, production-ready workflows. Based in Pittsburgh, she combines deep theoretical training (Princeton PhD) with hands-on computational skill, and is known for making rigorous, bias-resistant measurements at survey scale. An underappreciated strength is her sustained focus on software robustness—ensuring scientific results remain reliable as datasets and ML tools evolve.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Princeton University
Github Skills (73)
python10
astronomy10
testing10
density-estimation10
modular10
latex10
sampler10
galaxy10
random-walk10
des10
simulation10
routines10
tex10
robocup10
validation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rmandelb/mandelbaum-data
Dec 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
LSSTDESC/DESCNote_CoaddPsf
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes in 8 months
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