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V. Ashley Villar

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Victoria Ashley Villar is an astrophysicist who studies the death of stars and their by-products. She is an assistant professor at Harvard University.[1]

Early life and education

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Villar attended high school at Vero Beach High School in Florida.[2] She received her Bachelor of Science in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a minor in mathematics in 2014.[1] As an undergraduate, she wrote her senior thesis on asteroseismology with the assistance of professors John Johnson and Josh Winn.[2] She earned her Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Harvard University in 2020.[1] Villar was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and is now back at Harvard as an assistant professor. She was listed in the Science Category of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022.[3]

Research

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In February 2024, Villar and her research team had a funded three-day workshop by the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) Faculty Special Projects Fund to work with the same software used during the 2018 Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC) in order to study anomaly detection in celestial observations.[4] Villar is listed among model contributors on the PLAsTiCC meet the team webpage.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Ashley Villar". astronomy.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  2. ^ a b "V. Ashley Villar". ashleyvillar.com. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
  3. ^ "Victoria Ashley Villar". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  4. ^ "Ashley Villar's Proposal on Time-domain Astrophysics Anomaly Detection Secures Funding from the Harvard Data Science Initiative – HDSI". datascience.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
  5. ^ "Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)". Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC). Retrieved 2025-02-09.

Further reading

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