Scholar
Kartheik Iyer
Google Scholar ID: YcYe9bcAAAAJ
NHFP Hubble Fellow @ Columbia University
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,530
H-index
32
i10-index
56
Publications
20
Co-authors
43
Contact
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Creator of Dense Basis, a widely-used package for galaxy spectral analysis
- Developed GP-SFH, a framework for modeling stochastic star formation histories
- Co-founder of UniverseTBD, developing ML-based tools for astrophysical research
- Launched Pathfinder, a free LLM-assisted tool for exploring astronomical literature
- Publications available via Google Scholar and ADS; code on GitHub
Background
- Currently a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University
- Works at the intersection of theoretical modeling, observations, and astrostatistical method development to understand the physical processes shaping the universe
- Primarily a computational astrophysicist studying galaxy growth and evolution across cosmic time
- Focuses on decoding galaxy life stories: star formation, environmental interactions, and evolution over billions of years
- Enjoys applying astrostatistics and machine learning to noisy, heterogeneous datasets
- Advocates for interpretable or physically-motivated ML methods and AI for model building
- Recently exploring applications of generative AI in astronomy at both research and meta-literature levels