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Chauncey Tanner Murphey

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I’m a first year Astronomy PhD student (Fall 2023) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign looking for exploding stars throughout the universe with Professor Gautham Narayan.

I got my Master’s degree in Physics from Stony Brook University with a secondary certicifate in Advanced Data and Computational Science. My Master’s thesis (under Professor Will Farr) was about performing Bayesian inference on cosmological expansion using binary black hole (BBH) mergers orders of magnitude faster than current methods employed by LIGO. This work also routinely took me to the Flatiron Institute in Manhattan, where I was a guest researcher.

I obtained my Bachelors in Astronomy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2020, where I did research in Galactic supernova distributions under Professor Brian Fields.

Outside of classes and research, I’m a huge baseball fan and have made a few different coding projects using the vast amounts of available data in the sport. I’ve been coding extensively in Python since 2018, mostly in statistical modeling/analysis and data science.

photo of me in front of the Tom Seaver statue outside Citi Field, May 2022