Joshua Speagle
Assistant Professor Of Astrostatistics
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJoshua Speagle is an Assistant Professor of Astrostatistics at the University of Toronto who builds statistical and computational methods to extract scientific insight from large, noisy datasets, primarily in astrophysics. With a PhD from Harvard and a decade of research experience spanning postdoctoral fellowships, international collaborations, and a brief industry research stint, he blends rigorous Bayesian and machine-learning approaches with domain expertise in astronomy. He has advised and collaborated across leading institutions (including Kavli IPMU and the Center for Astrophysics) and is comfortable moving between academia and quantitative industry settings. Known for translating complex probabilistic ideas into practical pipelines, he focuses on learning from data rather than just modeling it, and often brings cross-disciplinary perspectives informed by both physics and statistics.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy at Harvard UniversityWisconsin Lutheran CollegeUniversity of Wisconsin-Waukesha
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
hierarchical10
nearest-neighbors10
pure-python10
bayesian10
bruteforce10
monte-carlo10
bayesian-inference10
self-organizing-map10
galaxy9
open-access8
arxiv8
python8
podcast8
photo8
journal8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joshspeagle/allsky
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
3-D visualization of galactic motion
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
3dvisualizationallskygalaxy
joshspeagle/brutus
Apr 2018 - May 2021
Modeling stellar photometry with "brute force" methods
Contributions:2 releases, 111 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years
bruteforcepure-pythonmit-licensebayesian-inferencebrute-force
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