I have moved

My wonderful experience at CITA has come to an end and I have started a new exciting journey. I joined Thomson Reuters to take part in building a Data Innovation Lab in Canada. Read on about my research at CITA on this page or view our Innovation Lab in the news.

What I Do


The past decade has been a golden era for precision cosmology. Cosmological surveys from microwave to x-ray frequencies provided us with valuable tools for studying the physics of the universe. Using this information, we have learned a great deal about the material content, shape and structure of the universe. These achievements have come about with the aid of precise characterization of the statistical properties of the cosmic fields. With the continuing influx of high-sensitivity and high-resolution data, our need for new and efficient methods of statistical analysis is growing. My research uses techniques from computer science and statistics and focuses on developing novel methods to extract physical information from astrophysical data. I would like to call it data-intensive astrophysics as it is shown in the plot above.

Next

Who I Am

Currently I am a Data Scintist at the Data Innovation Lab at Thomson Reuters. Prior to that I was a Senior Research Associate at CITA. Before coming to Canada, I was a postdoc at Princeton University, a PhD student at IUCAA, a post-graduate student at IASBS and an undergraduate student at Sharif University. See my Résumé or check out my CV by clicking on the link below for more details:

Curriculum Vitae
Click bellow button to view my full C.V.

I have been an active member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope analysis team since 2007. I am now a member of the ACTpol collaboration to measure the polarization of the small scale cosmic microwave background anisotropies with unprecedented accuracy.

Next

My Work

Here is a brief visual tour of my work. Click on the thumbnails to see the larger version of each figure and read more about it. For a complete list of publications check out my Publication List, or see My Citations. You can also read about my research in the news.


Contact Me

The easiest way to contact me is by email. I (still) check my CITA email regularly.

E-mail (@cita.utoronto.ca):ahajian
Website: http://cita.utoronto.ca/~ahajian/