Aidan Berres

Contact Information

127 Astronomy
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL
M/C 221
Graduate Student

Biography

I am a fourth-year graduate student and PhD candidate interested in Survey Astronomy, LSST, and Data Science. I completed my undergraduate education at the University of Washington Seattle (GO DAWGS). I am currently working with Professor Xin Liu bridging AI and Galaxy surveys through evaluating galaxy deblending algorithms and generative machine learning with diffusion models.

Research Interests

Extragalactic Sources

Machine Learning

Survey Astronomy

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, MS Astronomy (July 2024)

University of Washington, BS Astronomy and Physics, with Honors in Astronomy (June 2021)

Courses Taught

TA: ASTR 404, Fall 2022

TA: ASTR 310, Spring 2023