Presenter

Ashish Mahabal is a Computational Data Scientist with the Center for Data Driven Discovery (CD3), a joint Caltech-JPL Data Science Center. He holds a PhD in Astronomy. He works on Big Data projects in BioSciences (EDRN, MCL), Astronomy (CRTS, ZTF, LSST), EarthScience (EarthCube). He has been involved in all aspects related to data: procurement, processing, databases, visualization, scientific analysis, distribution, and archives. His interest lies in combining diverse datasets and presenting them to maximize scientific output using workflows that employ Statistical and Mathematical techniques and Machine Learning, and where possible, Citizen Science. Ongoing work includes methodology transfer from Astronomy and Space Science to Health Care and Earth Science.