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Register now for the IAIFI Summer Workshop 2026!
Our colleagues at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) have announced the IAIFI Summer Workshop 2026, taking place August 10–14, 2026 at MIT, Cambridge, MA.
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2026
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AstroAI and EarthAI are at AAS 249
AstroAI was again represented at the 249th AAS meeting!
2025
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EarthAI is at SXSW 2025
Revolutionizing Astrophysics with AI Tuesday, March 12, 2024 from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, CT in Salon C of the Hilton Austin Downtown If you are at SXSW 2025, come visit our...
Cecilia Garraffo Awarded PECASE
Congratulations to AstroAI Director Cecilia Garraffo for being awarded a PECASE.
AstroAI and EarthAI are at AAS 247
AstroAI and EarthAI were well represented at the 247th AAS meeting:
2024
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AstroAI is at SXSW 2024
Revolutionizing Astrophysics with AI Tuesday, March 12, 2024 from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, CT in Salon C of the Hilton Austin Downtown If you are at SXSW 2024, come visit our...
Are You Interested in Working With AstroAI?
AstroAI is actively looking for collaborators and researchers at all career stages. If you are interested in working with AstroAI, please check out our Apply page for more details.
2023
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Camilo Fosco in the News!
AstroAI member Camilo Fosco was recently interviewed by Wired! The interview discusses how people and AI view artwork as memorable.
Congratulations to Mayeul Aubin
Huge congrats to AstroAI’s first intern, Mayeul Aubin, and our dedicated team for clinching the #1 spot in the Ariel Data Challenge by the European Space Agency! Swift models, groundbreaking domain knowledge,...
Thaddaeus Kiker Finishes 10th in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search
AstroAI congratulates Thaddaeus Kiker finishing 10th in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search.
AstroAI Member Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro wins Botton Foundation Fellowship
AstroAI affiliate Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro was one of three MIT postdocs to be awarded the inagural Mauricio and Carlota Botton Foundation fellowship.
Javier Viaña Pérez Gives a TEDx Talk about Interpretable AI
AstroAI affiliate Javier Viaña Pérez recently gave a talk at TEDxBoston discussing the importance of explainability and interpretability in the AI community.
Floor Broekgaarden Gives a 2023 Harvard Horizons Scholars Talk
On April 11, 2023 in Sanders Theatre, 2023 Harvard Horizons Scholar, Harvard Griffin GSAS astronomy student, and AstroAI leadership member Floor Broekgaarden presented her PhD research in her talk “Gravitational Wave Paleontology:...
AstroAI Publication Investigating the Background Dynamics of the Universe
The field of machine learning has drawn increasing interest from various other fields due to the success of its methods at solving a plethora of different problems. An application of these has...
AstroAI Publication Mapping the Variability of a Binary Black Hole
Black hole X-ray binary systems (BHBs) contain a close companion star accreting onto a stellar-mass black hole. A typical BHB undergoes transient outbursts during which it exhibits a sequence of long-lived spectral...
Congratulations to Thaddaeus Kiker
AstroAI congratulates Thaddaeus Kiker for being one of the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2023 Finalists.
AstroAI Publication Examining TESS Lightcurves
With the upcoming plethora of astronomical time-domain datasets and surveys, anomaly detection as a way to discover new types of variable stars and transients has inspired a new wave of research. Yet,...