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Basics
| Name | Linda Jin |
| Label | Astrophysics ML researcher |
| lindajin@uw.edu | |
| Url | https://klinjin.github.io/ |
Education
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2025.09 - now Seattle, WA
Ph.D.
University of Washington
Physics
- Teaching Assistant for Physics Advanced Laboratory: Computational Data Analysis (2025 Fall)
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2020.08 - 2023.12 Santa Barbara, CA
B.S.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Physics
- High Honors
- Worster research fellowship 2023
- Dean's Honor
Experience
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2026.01 - now PhD research assistant
DiRAC Institute, UW
Building robust algorithms for inferencing dark energy evolution from LSST and Rubin data
- Normalizing flows
- Uncertainty quantification
- Clustering
- Lyman-breaking galaxies
- photometric redshift
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2024.09 - 2025.08 Post-bac researcher
The Berkeley Center for Cosmology Physics, UC Berkeley
Developing generative model for baryonification of dark matter field for weak lensing inference.
- Weak lensing
- hydrodynamical simulations
- CNN
- Conditional diffusion model
- Simulation-based inference
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2022.04 - 2024.09 Undergraduate research assistant
ENIGMA Group, UCSB
Extracting the thermal history of the intergalactic medium during post-reionization from Lyman-α forest autocorrelation function.
- Intergalactic medium
- Reionization
- emulator
- NN
- Bayesian inference
- Error propagation
Extracurriculum
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2022.10 - 2023.04 Santa Barbara, CA
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2022.03 - 2023.06 Santa Barbara, CA
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2020.08 - 2022.02 Santa Barbara, CA
Publications
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January 2025 Neural network emulator to constrain the high-z IGM thermal state from Lyman-α forest flux auto-correlation function.
MNRAS
A MLP emulator for Ly-α forest to accelerate the inference of IGM's thermal revolution during redshift 5.4 to 6.0.
Talks
| Prof. Claude-Andr ́e Faucher-Gigu`ere’s Group Meeting | ||
| Northwestern University | 2025-01-17 |
| Prof.Nick Gnedin Group Meeting Presentation | ||
| University of Chicago | 2024-11-01 |
| Berkeley Cosmology Group Journal Club | ||
| UC, Berkeley | 2024-10-01 |
| Worster Summer Research Fellowship Final Report | ||
| UC Santa Barbara | 2023-11-01 |
| Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics | ||
| UC Merced | 2023-01-01 |
| Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium | ||
| KITP | 2022-09-01 |
Skills
| Physics | |
| Gravitation and Relativity | |
| Thermal and Statistical Physics | |
| Quantum Mechanics | |
| Electromagnetism | |
| Advanced Experimental Physics | |
| Analog Electronics |
| Graduate-level courses | |
| Cosmology | |
| Stellar Evolution | |
| Statistics, Data Analysis, and Machine Learning for Physicis |
| Data Science | |
| Python, MATLAB, Fortran | |
| JAX | |
| Pytorch | |
| Tensorflow | |
| Optuna | |
| GitHub | |
| PyCharm, VScode | |
| Z Shell | |
| Conda, Jupyter | |
| Supercomputer operation |
| Office | |
| Latex | |
| Graphic design | |
| Business email | |
| Video editing | |
| Proposal writing | |
| Presentation | |
| Event Execution |
Languages
| Chinese | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
References
| Professor Joe Hennawi | |
| UC Santa Barbara, Leiden University |
| Professor Uros Seljak | |
| UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Professor Lars Bildsten | |
| UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Professor Tengiz Bibilashvili | |
| UC Santa Barbara |
| Professor Teja Nerella | |
| UC Santa Barbara |