About

Dr Ivy Wong is primarily a radio astronomer (specialising in large all-sky surveys of atomic Hydrogen and radio continuum), who is also experienced in observations using space-based telescopes in the ultraviolet and infrared, as well as ground-based optical imaging and spectroscopy.  The open science questions that she currently studies are: how galaxies get gas to form stars; grow central supermassive black holes and evolve.  In the upcoming era of ASKAP surveys such as WALLABY and EMU, Ivy’s current research interests include the development of alternative techniques such as citizen science and applications of machine learning algorithms. 

Ivy completed her PhD with Profs Rachel Webster, Gerhardt Meurer & Lister Staveley-Smith in 2008 and built up 12 years of postdoc experience at Yale University, ATNF (Marsfield, NSW) and ICRAR/UWA prior to settling into a senior research scientist position at ATNF (Kensington, WA).

For more information, my entire CV can be downloaded as a PDF file here