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Professor Kaisey Mandel

I am the Professor of Astrostatistics and Data Science at the University of Cambridge. I hold this interdisciplinary faculty position jointly at the Statistical Laboratory of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, and at the Institute of Astronomy. As of 2024, I am the Past Chair of the Astrostatistics Interest Group of the American Statistical Association, a member of the Council of the International Astrostatistics Association, and Turing Fellow Alumnus of The Alan Turing Institute. I am a founder and co-organiser of the Cambridge Astro Data Science Discussion Group. My research interests lie at the intersections of astrophysics, cosmology, statistics, and machine learning, and include:

  • Astrostatistics, astronomical machine learning, astroinformatics
  • Statistical applications in time-domain astronomy and cosmology
  • Bayesian modelling and inference
  • Statistical computation

Publications

Cosmological Results from the RAISIN Survey: Using Type Ia Supernovae in the Near Infrared as a Novel Path to Measure the Dark Energy Equation of State
DO Jones, KS Mandel, RP Kirshner, S Thorp, PM Challis, A Avelino, D Brout, C Burns, RJ Foley, YC Pan, DM Scolnic, MR Siebert, R Chornock, WL Freedman, A Friedman, J Frieman, L Galbany, E Hsiao, L Kelsey, GH Marion, RC Nichol, PE Nugent, MM Phillips, A Rest, AG Riess, M Sako, M Smith, P Wiseman, WM Wood-Vasey
– Astrophysical Journal
(2022)
933,
172
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac755b)
Enhanced monitoring of atmospheric methane from space over the Permian basin with hierarchical Bayesian inference
C Roberts, O Shorttle, K Mandel, M Jones, R Ijzermans, B Hirst, P Jonathan
– Environmental Research Letters
(2022)
17,
064037
(doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac7062)
Enhanced monitoring of atmospheric methane from space over the Permian basin with hierarchical Bayesian inference
C Roberts, O Shorttle, K Mandel
– Environmental Research Letters
(2022)
(doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac7062)
An Early-time Optical and Ultraviolet Excess in the Type-Ic SN 2020oi
A Gagliano, L Izzo, CD Kilpatrick, B Mockler, WV Jacobson-Galán, G Terreran, G Dimitriadis, Y Zenati, K Auchettl, MR Drout, G Narayan, RJ Foley, R Margutti, A Rest, DO Jones, C Aganze, PD Aleo, AJ Burgasser, DA Coulter, R Gerasimov, C Gall, J Hjorth, CC Hsu, EA Magnier, KS Mandel, AL Piro, C Rojas-Bravo, MR Siebert, H Stacey, MC Stroh, JJ Swift, K Taggart, S Tinyanont
– Astrophysical Journal
(2022)
924,
55
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac35ec)
A Hierarchical Bayesian SED Model for Type Ia Supernovae in the Optical to Near-Infrared
KS Mandel, S Thorp, G Narayan, AS Friedman, A Avelino
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2021)
510,
3939
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stab3496)
Testing the Consistency of Dust Laws in SN Ia Host Galaxies: A BayeSN Examination of Foundation DR1
S Thorp, KS Mandel, DO Jones, SM Ward, G Narayan
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2021)
508,
4310
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stab2849)
First cosmology results using supernovae ia from the dark energy survey: Survey overview, performance, and supernova spectroscopy
M Smith, CB D'Andrea, M Sullivan, A Möller, RC Nichol, RC Thomas, AG Kim, M Sako, FJ Castander, AV Filippenko, RJ Foley, L Galbany, S González-Gaitán, E Kasai, RP Kirshner, C Lidman, D Scolnic, D Brout, TM Davis, RR Gupta, SR Hinton, R Kessler, J Lasker, E Macaulay, RC Wolf, B Zhang, J Asorey, A Avelino, BA Bassett, J Calcino, D Carollo, R Casas, P Challis, M Childress, A Clocchiatti, S Crawford, C Frohmaier, K Glazebrook, DA Goldstein, ML Graham, JK Hoormann, K Kuehn, GF Lewis, KS Mandel, E Morganson, D Muthukrishna, P Nugent, YC Pan, M Pursiainen, R Sharp, NE Sommer, E Swann, BP Thomas, BE Tucker, SA Uddin, P Wiseman, W Zheng, TMC Abbott, J Annis, S Avila, K Bechtol, GM Bernstein, E Bertin, D Brooks, DL Burke, A Carnero Rosell, M Carrasco Kind, J Carretero, CE Cunha, LN da Costa, C Davis, J De Vicente, HT Diehl, TF Eifler, J Estrada, J Frieman, J García-Bellido, E Gaztanaga, DW Gerdes, D Gruen, RA Gruendl, J Gschwend, G Gutierrez, WG Hartley, DL Hollowood, K Honscheid, B Hoyle, DJ James, MWG Johnson, MD Johnson, N Kuropatkin, TS Li, M Lima, MAG Maia, M March, JL Marshall, P Martini, F Menanteau, CJ Miller, R Miquel
– The Astronomical Journal
(2020)
160,
267
(doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/abc01b)
Type Ia Supernovae Are Excellent Standard Candles in the Near-infrared
A Avelino, AS Friedman, KS Mandel, DO Jones, PJ Challis, RP Kirshner
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2019)
887,
106
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2a16)
The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge PLAsTiCC: Selection of a Performance Metric for Classification Probabilities Balancing Diverse Science Goals
AI Malz, R Hlozek, TJ Allam, A Bahmanyar, R Biswas, M Dai, L Galbany, EEO Ishida, SW Jha, DO Jones, R Kessler, M Lochner, AA Mahabal, KS Mandel, JR Martinez-Galarza, JD McEwen, D Muthukrishna, G Narayan, H Peiris, CM Peters, K Ponder, CN Setzer
– The Astronomical Journal
(2019)
158,
171
(doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab3a2f)
Rapid: Early classification of explosive transients using deep learning
D Muthukrishna, G Narayan, KS Mandel, R Biswas, R Hložek
– Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
(2019)
131,
118002
(doi: 10.1088/1538-3873/ab1609)
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Frontpage talks

Cambridge Statistics Clinic
MR14 at the CMS
Cambridge Statistics Clinic
MR15 at the CMS
Cambridge Statistics Clinic
MR5 at the CMS
Statistics
Stefan Wager (Stanford University)
13
Mar
16:00 - 17:00: Title to be confirmed
Peter Whittle Lecture
Rina Roygel Barber (Chicago)

Research Group

Statistical Laboratory

Email

kmandel@statslab.cam.ac.uk

Room

D1.07

Telephone

01223 337955

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