Email: matt.dobbs@mcgill.ca
Office:
Trottier Space Institute
103 - 3550 University
Tel: 514-398-6500
Lab:
Rutherford Room 231,
Tel: 514-398-4838
LiteBIRD Project Scientist and Project Manager
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 231
Tel: 514-398-4838
Electrical Engineer
LiteBIRD and CHORD Electronics
McGill Astro Fellowship
CHIME/CHORD Analysis
TSI Fellow
CHIME/FRB Analysis / gravitational lensing
CHORD Telescope Instrumentation
Senior CHIME Scientist / Postdoctoral Fellow (Jointly appointed between McGill and Perimeter Institute)
Research topic: CHORD Software pipeline architecture, CHIME Guru, Commissioning and Analysis
CHORD Telescope Project Manager
Email : dallas.wulf@mcgill.ca
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 232
Tel: 514-398-7034
Electrical Engineer Consultant and radio correlator F-engine firmware lead
Captain of the McGill Cosmology lab FPGA school
PhD: FPGA signal processing for TES readout
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 231
Tel: 514-398-4838
PhD: CHIME/FRB Gravitational Lensing Dark Matter Limits
Lab/office:
Rutherford Room 232
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
PhD: Commissioning the CHORD correlator (co-supervised with C. Chiang)
MSc: FPGA correlator technology for CHORD (co-supervised with C. Chiang)
Radio astronomy instrumentation and data analysis for CHORD
Sept 2023-
ICE Correlator Firmeware and qualification (co-supervised with J-F. Cliche)
Undergraduate Researcher Summer 2025
Lab/office: Rutherford Room 232
Blazar variability with CHIME & RFI Monitor System (Mentored by Evan and Libby)
Undergraduate Researcher Summer 2025
samuel.gultom@mail.utoronto.ca
Lab/office: Rutherford Room 232
McGill Astro Postdoctoral Fellowship (co-supervised with Cynthia Chiang)
2024-2025
21cm Instrumentation and Analysis
ICE Correlator Electronics qualification and RFI monitoring
Undergraduate Researcher 2024-2025
Email: antoine.parise@mail.mcgill.ca
Undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023
CHIME Point Source Analysis (co-supervised with Dallas Wulf)
CHIME/CHORD Electronics Software Development, Testing and Assembly
Undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023
CHIME point source analysis (co-supervised with Dallas Wulf)
Outrigger VLBI (co-supervised with Vicky Kaspi)
CHIME Analysis and CHORD Pipeline
2021-2022
CHIME 21cm analysis
2022-2023
CHIME Point Source Analysis (co-supervised with Dallas Wulf)
Undergraduate researcher, 2021-2022
CHIME Slow Transients
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
M.Sc. student (co-supervised with C. Chiang), 2020-2022
D3A Analog and Dish Design
Undergraduate researcher, 2020-2021
CHORD mechanical design
Postdoctoral researcher (McGill Astro Fellowship, co-supervised with A. Liu), 2018-2021
Now Asst. Professor at Raman Institute, India
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
M.Sc. student, 2017-2020
CHIME Telescope Commissioning
Ph.D student (co-supervised with C. Chiang), 2018-2020
Radio Instrumentation for HIRAX and CHORD
Electronics Development, 2013-2019
Now research engineer at Nuvu Cameras
Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019
Laboratory technical support
Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019
Design for PRIZM (co supervised with Cynthia Chiang)
Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019
ICE system suitcase interferometer for RFI monitoring
Undergraduate researcher, 2017-2018
Signal processing of Cardiac cell monolayers (co-supervised with Leon Glass, Physiology)
Ph.D student, 2013-2018
M.Sc. student, 2012-2013
Commissioning of the CHIME pathfinder (FQRNT & NSERC CGS Fellowships)
Currently: Postdoc Fellowship at MIT
Undergraduate researcher, 2015-2018
CHIME Electronics Assembly and Antenna modelling
Undergraduate researcher, 2017-2018
Simulations of Cardiac cell monolayers (co-supervised with Leon Glass, Physiology)
M.Sc student, 2015-2017
Optimal Combination of SPT and Planck Sky-maps
PhD student, 2013-2017
SPT Lensing Analysis (co-supervised with Gil Holder)
PhD student, 2013-2017
SPT/DES Gravitational Lensing Analysis (co-supervised with Gil Holder)
Next Role: Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford
M.Sc. student, 2014-2017
CHIME calibration
Undergraduate resercher, 2015-2017
CHIME Pathfinder Analysis and commissioning
Next Role: Graduate student at Princeton working on CMB Theory/Analysis
Postdoctoral researcher fellow, 2016-2017
Development of small radio interferometers
Next role: Scientist at NASA Goddard
Undergraduate researcher, 2017
CHIME Outreach materials
M.Sc. exchange student, 2017
Cryogenic Amplifier Circuit for MUX Readout
Undergraduate researcher, 2014-2016
Next role: Graduate student at UBC working on CHIME
Postdoctoral researcher, 2011-2015
Instrumentation for CHIME and EBEX
Now Asst. Professor (EE) at West Virginia
U3 Workstudy Undergraduate researcher, 2012-2015
Using CHIME for radio transients
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
Ph.D student, 2009-2014
Ph.D student, 2009-2014
Readout instrumentation/SPT Analysis (NSERC PGSM&D Fellowships)
Now tenure track faculty at KEK, Japan
Postdoc and Astrophysics Fellow, 2011-2014
SPT readout electronics and analysis.
Next Role: Scientist at Argonne National Lab working on SPT
Ph.D student, 2007-2013
M.Sc. student, 2011-2013
Review of calibration techniques for low frequency radio telescopes
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
MITACS undergraduate researcher, 2013
Firmware algorithms for efficient multiplication of low bit-count numbers for CHIME
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)
U3 Workstudy Undergraduate researcher, 2010-2012
Cryogenic Test System for Detector Characterization
U1 Student Workstudy Researcher, 2011-2012
Electronics rework & development
Undergraduate researcher, 2011-2012
Simulation of CHIME Antenna Response (Honors project)
U3 Workstudy Undergraduate researcher, 2009-2011
Quality control test software for electronics
Postdoctoral researcher, 2008-2010
PolarBEAR Readout
Next role: Asst. Professor Austin College, TX
U2 Undergraduate Researcher, 2008-2010
Cryoelectronics hardware commissioning
U1 Undergraduate researcher, 2010
Antenna response pattern simulations
NSERC Summer Undergrad Researcher, 2010
CHIME Simulations
Electronics Technician, part time, 2008-2009
Undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009
Testing DfMux electronics and development of fridge controller electronics
Electrical Engineer Consultant, 2007-2008
U1 Undergraduate NSERC Researcher, 2008
Simulations of SPT, EBEX, Polarbear
NSERC Summer Undergrad Researcher, 2006
Senior UGrad Thesis from Saint Mary's University, 2006-2007
Topic: Atmosphere subtraction for APEX-SZ
NSERC Summer Undergrad Researcher, 2007
Topic: Building a cryogenic sub-kelvin cold stage for test cryostat. Software and testing of EBEX readout system electronics
Undergrad Workstudy Student, 2007
Topic: Software and assembly for cosmology readout system
Postdoc, 2006
APEX-SZ operation and data analysis
Next Role: Research scientist at D-Wave Technologies in Vancouver
Undergrad Workstudy Student, 2006
Topic: Simulations of Digital fMUX timestreams
Undergrad Workstudy Student, 2006
Topic: Setting up lab computing system