Ashish Mahabal
Ashish Mahabal
Deputy Director, Center for Data Driven Discovery
Research Areas: Large Sky Surveys, Classification, Deep Learning, and Methodology Transfer to other complex-data fields like medicine
Overview
Ashish Mahabal is an astronomer and Deputy Director at the Center for Data Driven Discovery at the California Institute of Technology.
He leads the Machine Learning (ML) for the Zwicky Transient Facility, a new large survey covering the entire Northern Sky every few nights. He also works with the Data Science group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is part of the Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) for cancer, and MCL.
Caltech Heritage Project Interview: Ashish Mahabal (Postdoc '99-'00), Machine Learning Researcher and Pioneer of Data Driven Astronomy
Caltech Heritage Project Interview: Ashish Mahabal (Postdoc '99-'00), Machine Learning Researcher and Pioneer of Data Driven Astronomy
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