CosmicAI

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation. Driving AI innovation to explore the cosmos.

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CosmicAI Lightning Talk! MD. Khairul Islam is a PhD student at @UVA
Listen to the talk “Cosmo3DFlow: Reconstructing the Early Universe using Generative Models” @NSF @SimonsFdn

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CosmicAI Student Lightning talk! Andy Morgan is a Science Intern at NSF @NOIRLabAstro
Listen to the talk "Machine Learning for Spectroscopic Redshift Estimation"
https://t.co/mF3jEUgUur

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33 scientists responded to the question: “What is the future of scientific discovery in this new age of AI?” CosmicAI PI & Director Stella Offner was among them. Read about “how AI developments within astronomy can accelerate AI advancements more broadly"

https://t.co/cCQIOOZ5Gf

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CosmicAI Student Lightning talk - with Brian Kirk, PhD student at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology with application at @TheNRAO

Listen to the short talk "Reinforcement Learning in Radio Astronomy"

https://t.co/l2P8L9UOdz

@NSF @SimonsFdn

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CosmicAI Student Lightning talk - with Jonathan Kho, PhD Student at University of Virginia!

Listen to the short talk "Developing 1000 Galaxies on Fire"

https://t.co/7nsVH27IWO

@NSF @SimonsFdn

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Jeff Phillips (CosmicAI Observable Universe, AI Lead), received best TVCG paper for his work on “A Topology-Preserving Coreset for Kernel Regression in Scientific Visualization”
He worked alongside Weiran Lyu, Nathaniel Gorski, Bei Wang. https://t.co/WNcL5Wvepo @UUtah

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CosmicAI Observable Universe, AI Lead, Jeff Phillips (Professor, Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah) ran an AI trip for 5th and 6th graders, organized by Utah Astronomy! @UUtah

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Read all about the AAAI-26 AI Review pilot reviewing 20K+ submissions to AAAI. Work led by @Joydeepb_robots with UT contributions from
@jessyjli, @PeterStone_TX, and others. #TexasAI @UTGoodSystems @CosmicAI_Inst @UTiSchool
@TexasScience @UTexasResearch @UTAustin

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CosmicAI Student Lightning talk with Wenxuan Ding - PhD Student at @nyuniversity

Listen to the short talk "Calibrate-Then-Act: Cost-Aware Exploration in LLM Agents"

https://t.co/0GzHWjMM4e

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The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences teamed up with @mcdonaldobs StarDate Magazine for an up close look at how astronomy and AI are solving each other’s problems.
Author: Olivia Castillo
Edits by Joanne Foote & the StarDate team
https://t.co/Yy9r653h8Z

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CosmicAI Student Jonathan Kho earned 2nd place in the Physical Engineering category at UVA's annual Research Computing Exhibition! Jonathan is a PhD Student at @UVA. Jonathan presented a poster on his work developing a suite of 1024 galaxies using the FIRE2 model.

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CosmicAI at @amazon Research Day!

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Work presented today @ Amazon Research Day: w/ Houjiang Liu, Yujin Choi, Sanjana Gautam, Gabriel Jaffe, & Soo Young Rieh. Effects of Varying Control vs. Automation in Human-in-the-loop Research Ideation. Paper: https://t.co/fmcZ4a7qLl

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Congratulations to Paul Torrey, CosmicAI Explainable Universe Astronomy Lead who just received an @NSF Award for “CAREER: A Framework for Galaxy Formation Theory in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.” @UVA

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CosmicAI at our collaborative event - Harrington Faculty Fellows Symposium 2026 “Large Language Models: Advances and Applications.” Sign up for our email list to learn about our upcoming events! https://t.co/bgO3mQketg

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12 hours left! Donate to CosmicAI's 40 for Forty campaign! We’re raising funds to support paid summer research internships for undergrads exploring AI + astronomy. Every dollar goes to students! Campaign ends tonight at 10pm!

Donate now! https://t.co/NnzMT6bVEF

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CosmicAI is excited to participate in the annual 40 for Forty campaign! We’re raising funds to support paid summer research internships for undergrads exploring AI + astronomy. Campaign ends April 30th at 10pm! Donate now! https://t.co/NnzMT6bVEF #UT40for40

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CosmicAI Leadership highlight! Explorable Universe Astronomy Lead Dr. @StephaJuneau is an Associate Astronomer at NSF @NOIRLabAstro. Listen as she describes her CosmicAI research using machine learning to decode galaxy spectra and reveal trends shaping their evolution.

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CosmicAI PhD Student Alex Garcia successfully defended his thesis on Metallicity as a tracer of the Baryon Cycle in Modern Cosmological Simulations and is off to a postdoc at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics! Congrats Alex! @Harvard

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Upcoming April 29th Seminar! How close are language models to becoming autonomous and trustworthy scientists? (Peter Jansen) & Is AI the Future of Astronomical Discovery (Ann Zabludoff)
11-12pm CT (9am MST)
Zoom/in person at @NOIRLabAstro @peterjansen_ai
https://t.co/Q47Uh6DxyK

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CosmicAI Student Lightning talk! Alex Garcia is a Ph.D. Student at the University of Virginia

Listen to his short talk "Dark Matter Decay and Annihilation"