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I'm an astronomer, a physicist, a husband and father, an activist, and an avid traveller. Click to learn more about me.
Hi, I’m Daniel Giles (he/him/his).
I recently finished a postdoc at the SETI Institute and I'm currently full-time parenting as I discern what I'd like to do next.
I am from Issaquah, Washington, hold a B.S. from Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois. My current research at the SETI Institute is focused on finding the most interesting (read: anomalous) variables and transients in TESS, alongside creating a census of analogs to Boyajian's star. All of this interesting data can be hidden by sheer volume, so I implement machine learning methods to mine the data. On any given day you'll find my nose buried in code, fine-tuning machine learning algorithms, and despairing at the bugs I've accidentally hidden throughout. Proof of concept paper here, more detailed paper here: .
