Team

CosmicAI Institute Executive Leadership

Stella Offner

UT Austin
PI and Director
Accelerated Universe, Astro Lead
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Matt Lease

UT Austin
Co-Director
Explorable Universe, AI Lead
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Jessy Li

UT Austin
Explorable Universe, AI Lead
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Stephanie Juneau

NOIRLab
Explorable Universe, Astro Lead
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Adam Bolton

SLAC Stanford
Co-PI
Explorable Universe, Astro Lead
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Arya Farahi

UT Austin
Co-PI
Explainable Universe, AI Lead
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Paul Torrey

University of Virginia
Explainable Universe, Astro Lead
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Jeff Phillips

University of Utah
Observable Universe, AI Lead
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Eric Murphy

NRAO
Co-PI
Observable Universe, Astro Lead
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George Biros

UT Austin
Accelerated Universe, AI Lead
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Senior Staff

Pratik Mhatré

UT Austin
Managing Director
Contact pmhatre@austin.utexas.edu for general inquiries
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Jane Bernhard

UT Austin
Communications Director
Contact jane.bernhard@austin.utexas.edu
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Karen Rumpf

UT Austin
Research Administrator & Administrative Associate
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Niall Gaffney

TACC
Computing Director
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Lydia Fletcher

TACC
Data Librarian
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Senior Personnel

Baharan Mirzasoleimanbarzi

UCLA
Co-Investigator
Explorable Universe
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Gregory Durrett

UT Austin
Co-Investigator
Explorable Universe
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Tom Matheson

NOIRLab
Co-Investigator
Explorable Universe
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Maryam Modjaz

University of Virginia
Co-Investigator
Explorable Universe
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Haiying (Helen) Shen

University of Virginia
Co-Investigator
Explorable Universe
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Michael Boylan-Kolchin

UT Austin
Co-Investigator
Explainable Universe
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Alessandro Rinaldo

UT Austin
Co-Investigator
Explainable Universe
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Julian Munoz

UT Austin
Co-Investigator
Explainable Universe
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Judy Fox

University of Virginia
Co-Investigator
Explainable Universe
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Nitya Jacob Kallivayalil

University of Virginia
Co-Investigator
Explainable Universe
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El Kindi Rezig

University of Utah
Co-Investigator
Observable Universe
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Brian Scott Mason

NRAO
Co-Investigator
Observable Universe
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Ryan Loomis

NRAO
Co-Investigator
Observable Universe
Ziad Al-Halah

University of Utah
Co-Investigator
Observable Universe
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Omar Ghattas

UT Austin
Co-Investigator
Accelerated Universe
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Keith Hawkins

UT Austin
Co-Investigator
Accelerated Universe
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Lauren Ilsedore Cleeves

University of Virginia
Co-Investigator
Accelerated Universe
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Robin Garrod

University of Virginia
Co-Investigator
Accelerated Universe
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ChangHoon Hahn

UT Austin
Faculty
Explainable Group
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Robert Nikutta

NOIRLab
Explorable Universe
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Collaborators

Alexandros Dimakis

UT Austin
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Gail Zasowski

University of Utah
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Rachel Ward

UT Austin
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Jack Dongarra

University of Tennessee
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Amir Shahmoradi

UT Arlington
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Kyle Lo

Ai2
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Luca Soldaini

Ai2
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Juliana Duncan

TACC
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Gabriel Jaffe

TACC
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Luke Smith

TACC
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Sikan Li

TACC
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Amit Gupta

TACC
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Abhishek Divekar

Amazon
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Ignacio Toledo

Joint ALMA Observatory
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Keith Poletti

UT Austin
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Jonah Rose

Princeton University and Simons Foundation
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Postdoctoral Scholars

Josh Taylor

UT Austin
Observable Universe
Sanjana Gautam

UT Austin
Explorable Universe
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Xiaowei Ou

University of Virginia
Explainable Universe
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Mélisse Bonfand-Caldeira

University of Virginia
Accelerated Universe
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Arjun Vijaywargiya

UT Austin
Accelerated Universe
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Omkar Bait

NRAO
Observable Universe
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Ci Xue

NRAO
Observable Universe
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Tanmoy Sen

University of Virginia
Explorable Universe
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Alkant Bhowmick

University of Virginia
Explainable Universe
William Rudman

UT Austin
Explorable Universe
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