Welcome to my personal website

My name is Abtin Shahidi, and I am a Ph.D. student in Observational extragalactic astrophysics. I am interested in data-driven approaches to extracting information from multiwavelength photometric catalogs containing missing bands. I am working on galaxies classification based on their observed/physical properties and directly estimating their physical properties.

I am currently using the CANDELS and COSMOS multiwavelength catalogs, as well as semi-analytical models of galaxy formation to extract and infer galaxies physical properties, including their age and their star-formation rate, as well as constraining their star formation histories. I am also a teaching assistant for various courses in both physics and engineering at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). (For more information about the type of research in the Astronomy group at UCR, visit the Astronomy Group at UCR )

I use the photometric and spectroscopic data from the largest ground and space based telescopes such as W. M. Keck Observatory, Subaru Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope and hopefully within few years I get the chance to observe with Thirty Meter Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, and WFIRST.

I love traveling, backpacking, hiking, swimming, watching old movies, learning and teaching math, physics, astronomy, statistical learning, scientific visualization, and almost anything related to coding!

Any code related material could also be found in my github page