Federica Bianco is an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, and a Resident Faculty member in the Data Science Institute. She also serves as Deputy Project Scientist and Interim Head of Science at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
Her work focuses on data-driven solutions to problems across disciplines, including time-domain astronomy, astronomical survey science, supernova science, computer vision applied to astronomy and geography, data science, artificial intelligence, and urban science.
Matthew Graham is a Research Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and serves as Project Scientist for the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a next-generation time-domain sky survey producing hundreds of thousands of public transient alerts every night.
He works at the intersection of astronomy, data science, and machine learning, focusing on variability in the universe, real-time data processing, and advanced statistical methods to handle the huge data streams from robotic sky surveys. His research includes work on quasars, transient phenomena, and the challenges of 21st-century time-domain astronomy.