Ian Chow
Astronomy Ph.D. Student
Welcome! I'm a first-year Astronomy Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, where I hold a Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral (PGS-D) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). I work with Prof. Mario Jurić studying small Solar System bodies, and my current research focuses on characterizing various near-Earth object (NEO) populations using early data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. I'm also interested in planetary science, astrostatistics and applying machine learning and data science methods to astronomy broadly.
I previously held an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) at the University of Western Ontario, where I earned my Astronomy M.Sc. under the supervision of Prof. Peter Brown. Before that, I received an Honours B.Sc. Astronomy & Physics Specialist, Statistics Major, and Mathematics Minor at the University of Toronto, where I completed an Astronomy thesis supervised by Dr. Sam Hadden and Prof. Hanno Rein as well as a Statistics thesis supervised by Prof. Josh Speagle.
In my free time, I enjoy trivia (where I have competed at the ACF Nationals and Intercollegiate Championship quiz bowl tournaments), baseball, reading and writing fiction, sailing, going to concerts, and playing board games.
Read more about my past and present research or check out my other coding projects that I've worked on!
A full list of my publications can be found on the NASA ADS.
