Contact Information
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL
M/C 221
Research Areas
Education
PhD. Astronomy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021-present
B.S. Physics, Stony Brook University, 2021
B.S. Astronomy, Stony Brook University, 2021
Highlighted Publications
Stone, Z., Shen, Y., Burke C. J., et al., Optical Variability of Quasars with 20-Year Photometric Light Curves, 2022, MNRAS, 514, 164
Stone, Z. & Shen, Y., Temperature Fluctuations in Quasar Accretion Discs from Spectroscopic Monitoring Data, 2023, MNRAS, 524, 4521
Stone, Z., Shen, Y., Anderson, S. F., et al., The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Multiline Dynamical Modeling of a Highly Variable Active Galactic Nucleus with Decade-long Light Curves, 2025, ApJ, 991, 218
Stone, Z., Shen, Y., Zhuang, M.-Y., et al., NEXUS: A Search for Nuclear Variability with the First Two JWST NIRCam Epochs, 2025, submitted, arXiv:2509.19585