Group Members
Faculty / Postdocs
Prof. Matt Dobbs
Email: matt.dobbs@mcgill.ca
Office:
Trottier Space Institute
103 - 3550 University
Tel: 514-398-6500
Lab:
Rutherford Room 231,
Tel: 514-398-4838
Dr. Joshua Montgomery
LiteBIRD Project Scientist and Project Manager
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 231
Tel: 514-398-4838
Dr. Wellington Avelino
Electrical Engineer
LiteBIRD and CHORD Electronics
Nicholas Huang
McGill Astro Fellowship (co-supervised with Cynthia Chiang)
21cm Instrumentation and Analysis
Dr. Arnab Chakraborty
McGill Astro Fellowship
CHIME/CHORD Analysis
Mawson Sammons
TSI Fellow
Libby Berkhout
CHORD Telescope Instrumentation
Professional Staff and Consultants
Dr. Seth Siegel
Senior CHIME Scientist / Postdoctoral Fellow (Jointly appointed between McGill and Perimeter Institute)
Research topic: CHORD Software pipeline architecture, CHIME Guru, Commissioning and Analysis
Dr. Dallas Wulf
CHORD Telescope Project Manager
Email : dallas.wulf@mcgill.ca
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 232
Tel: 514-398-7034
Dr. Jean-François Cliche
Electrical Engineer Consultant and radio correlator F-engine firmware lead
Captain of the McGill Cosmology lab FPGA school
Ph.D Students
Michel Adamič
PhD: FPGA signal processing for TES readout
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 231
Tel: 514-398-4838
Zarif Kader
PhD: CHIME/FRB Gravitational Lensing Dark Matter Limits
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 232
Maclean Rouble
PhD: Development of Kinetic Inductance Detector readout for SPT
MSc: SQUID-less TES readout for mm-wave telescopes
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 231
Tel: 514-398-4838
Ian Hendricksen
PhD: Commissioning the CHORD correlator (co-supervised with C. Chiang)
MSc: FPGA correlator technology for CHORD (co-supervised with C. Chiang)
M. Sc. Students
Kyle Miller
Radio astronomy instrumentation and data analysis for CHORD
Sept 2023-
Evan Davies-Velie
Undergraduate Researchers
Antoine Parise
ICE Correlator Electronics qualification (co-supervised with J-F. Cliche)
2024-
Email: antoine.parise@mail.mcgill.ca
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 232
Past Members
Irina Nitu
Undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023
CHIME Point Source Analysis (co-supervised with Dallas Wulf)
CHIME/CHORD Electronics Software Development, Testing and Assembly
Gabrielle Mackinnon
Undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023
CHIME point source analysis (co-supervised with Dallas Wulf)
Adam Lanman
Outrigger VLBI (co-supervised with Vicky Kaspi)
Dr. Sourabh Paul
CHIME Analysis and CHORD Pipeline
Sara Babic
2021-2022
CHIME 21cm analysis
Thibaud Biel
2022-2023
CHIME Point Source Analysis (co-supervised with Dallas Wulf)
Patrick Horlaville
Undergraduate researcher, 2021-2022
CHIME Slow Transients
Graeme Smecher
Electrical Engineering for DfMUX readout and LiteBIRD
2008-2016 & 2018-2022 at McGill
Next role: Engineer at Urthecast.com
Currently: Co-Founder of t0.technology
Elizabeth Pieters
M.Sc. student (co-supervised with C. Chiang), 2020-2022
D3A Analog and Dish Design
Simon Tartakovsky
Undergraduate researcher, 2020-2021
CHORD mechanical design
Saurabh Singh
Postdoctoral researcher (McGill Astro Fellowship, co-supervised with A. Liu), 2018-2021
Now Asst. Professor at Raman Institute, India
Gavin Noble
Research staff - calibration for the South Pole Telescope, 2019-2020
MSc Student at McGill, 2016-2019
PhD Student co-supervised with Keith Vanderlinde at Toronto University
Paula Boubel
M.Sc. student, 2017-2020
CHIME Telescope Commissioning
Deniz Ölçek
Ph.D student (co-supervised with C. Chiang), 2018-2020
Radio Instrumentation for HIRAX and CHORD
Dr. Adam Gilbert
Electronics Development, 2013-2019
Now research engineer at Nuvu Cameras
Sneha Nair
Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019
Laboratory technical support
Mariya Krasteva
Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019
Design for PRIZM (co supervised with Cynthia Chiang)
Seery Chen
Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019
ICE system suitcase interferometer for RFI monitoring
Oliver Lahman-Levesque
Undergraduate researcher, 2017-2018
Signal processing of Cardiac cell monolayers (co-supervised with Leon Glass, Physiology)
Juan Mena-Parra
Ph.D student, 2013-2018
M.Sc. student, 2012-2013
Commissioning of the CHIME pathfinder (FQRNT & NSERC CGS Fellowships)
Currently: Postdoc Fellowship at MIT
David Ittah
Undergraduate researcher, 2015-2018
CHIME Electronics Assembly and Antenna modelling
Vincent MacKay
Undergraduate researcher, 2017-2018
Simulations of Cardiac cell monolayers (co-supervised with Leon Glass, Physiology)
Ryan Chown
M.Sc student, 2015-2017
Optimal Combination of SPT and Planck Sky-maps
Gabrielle Simard
PhD student, 2013-2017
SPT Lensing Analysis (co-supervised with Gil Holder)
Yuuki Omori
PhD student, 2013-2017
SPT/DES Gravitational Lensing Analysis (co-supervised with Gil Holder)
Next Role: Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford
Gilbert Hsyu
M.Sc. student, 2014-2017
CHIME calibration
Emilie Storer
Undergraduate resercher, 2015-2017
CHIME Pathfinder Analysis and commissioning
Next Role: Graduate student at Princeton working on CMB Theory/Analysis
Dr. Sean Griffin
Postdoctoral researcher fellow, 2016-2017
Development of small radio interferometers
Next role: Scientist at NASA Goddard
Anna Brandenberger
Undergraduate researcher, 2017
CHIME Outreach materials
Clara Vergès
M.Sc. exchange student, 2017
Cryogenic Amplifier Circuit for MUX Readout
Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte
Undergraduate researcher, 2014-2016
Next role: Graduate student at UBC working on CHIME
Dr. Kevin Bandura
Postdoctoral researcher, 2011-2015
Instrumentation for CHIME and EBEX
Now Asst. Professor (EE) at West Virginia
Qing (Amy) Tang
U3 Workstudy Undergraduate researcher, 2012-2015
Using CHIME for radio transients
James Kennedy
Ph.D student, 2009-2014
M.Sc. student, 2006-2008
APEX-SZ Analysis and SPTpol Hardware (NSERC PGSD Fellowship)
Now with Radar Systems group at Tactical Technologies
Kevin MacDermid
Ph.D student, 2009-2014
Tijmen de Haan
Ph.D student, 2009-2014
Readout instrumentation/SPT Analysis (NSERC PGSM&D Fellowships)
Now tenure track faculty at KEK, Japan
Dr. Amy Bender
Postdoc and Astrophysics Fellow, 2011-2014
SPT readout electronics and analysis.
Next Role: Scientist at Argonne National Lab working on SPT
François Aubin
Ph.D student, 2007-2013
Nicholas Lebel-Buchanon
M.Sc. student, 2011-2013
Review of calibration techniques for low frequency radio telescopes
Mathew Galloway
Undergraduate Researcher, 2012-2013
Exploring firmware for KIDs readout
Readout system and integration - EBEX
Next role: FQRNT postdoctoral fellowship at U. Minnesota for EBEX analysis and next generation
Tamanna Singh
MITACS undergraduate researcher, 2013
Firmware algorithms for efficient multiplication of low bit-count numbers for CHIME
Dr. Keith Vanderlinde
Postdoc and ClfAR Junior Fellow, 2009-2012
SPT cluster Cosmology
CHIME design, prototyping and pipeline
Next role: Assistant professor at Dunlap Institute/University of Toronto (webpage)
Bena Mero
U3 Workstudy Undergraduate researcher, 2010-2012
Cryogenic Test System for Detector Characterization
Mashabat Suzuki
U1 Student Workstudy Researcher, 2011-2012
Electronics rework & development
Ivan Padilla
Undergraduate researcher, 2011-2012
Simulation of CHIME Antenna Response (Honors project)
Max Schmitt
U3 Workstudy Undergraduate researcher, 2009-2011
Quality control test software for electronics
Peter Hyland
Postdoctoral researcher, 2008-2010
PolarBEAR Readout
Next role: Asst. Professor Austin College, TX
Peter Dahlberg
U2 Undergraduate Researcher, 2008-2010
Cryoelectronics hardware commissioning
Alina Chen He
U1 Undergraduate researcher, 2010
Antenna response pattern simulations
Laurent Beauregard
NSERC Summer Undergrad Researcher, 2010
CHIME Simulations
Anton Tikhonov
Electronics Technician, part time, 2008-2009
Shahjahan Warraich
Undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009
Testing DfMux electronics and development of fridge controller electronics
Eric Bissonnette
Electrical Engineer Consultant, 2007-2008
Catherine Laflamme
U1 Undergraduate NSERC Researcher, 2008
Simulations of SPT, EBEX, Polarbear
Claire Cohalan
NSERC Summer Undergrad Researcher, 2006
Senior UGrad Thesis from Saint Mary's University, 2006-2007
Topic: Atmosphere subtraction for APEX-SZ
Mohamed Najih
NSERC Summer Undergrad Researcher, 2007
Topic: Building a cryogenic sub-kelvin cold stage for test cryostat. Software and testing of EBEX readout system electronics
Kareem Amin
Undergrad Workstudy Student, 2007
Topic: Software and assembly for cosmology readout system
Dr. Trevor Lanting
Postdoc, 2006
APEX-SZ operation and data analysis
Next Role: Research scientist at D-Wave Technologies in Vancouver
Rajat Mukherjee
Undergrad Workstudy Student, 2006
Topic: Simulations of Digital fMUX timestreams
Kurt Hartung
Undergrad Workstudy Student, 2006
Topic: Setting up lab computing system