Tuan Do
Associate Professor
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTuan Do is an Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UCLA with 11 years of research and academic experience focused on supermassive black holes, stellar dynamics, adaptive optics, and machine learning. He progressed from postdoctoral and research scientist roles to faculty, bringing hands-on expertise in cutting-edge observational techniques and computational methods. Based in Los Angeles, he blends rigorous PhD-level astrophysics training with practical instrument and algorithm development to push the limits of high-resolution astronomy. Notably, his work bridges theory and practice by applying ML to adaptive optics and dynamical inference, enabling more precise measurements of galactic centers.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Astrophysics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (22)
spectra10
astronomy10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrology10
science10
astrodynamics10
python9
astrophysics9
astropy9
stellar9
spectral8
synthetic3
imaging3
data-access2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
followthesheep/specutils
Jan 2015 - Nov 2024
Pckage for 1D spectral operations
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
spectralmaintainer
UCLAMLRG/reading_group2017
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 34 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 months
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