Matias Carrasco Kind
Director of Data Science Research Services and Research Assistant Professor of Accountancy
Contact
3052 Business Instructional Facility
515 Gregory Dr
Champaign, IL 61820
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Educational Background
- Ph.D., Astrophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
- M.S., Astrophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011
- B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Astronomy, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2005
Positions Held
- Affiliate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 2021 to present
- Director of Data Sciences Research Services, Data Science Research Services (DSRS),, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021 to present
- Research Assistant Professor of Accountancy, Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021 to present
- Assistant Director of Data Sciences Research Services, Data Science Research Services,, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020-2021
- Research Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019 to present
- Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018 to present
- Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014-2018
- Adjunct Professor and Research Scientist, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile, 2008-2010
- LENAC/ALPHA Visitor/Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, 2006
Recent Publications
- Asorey, J., Carrasco Kind, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Brunner, R., & Thaler, J. (2016). Galaxy clustering with photometric surveys using PDF redshift information. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press, 459 (2), 1293--1309.
- Kim, E., Brunner, R., & Carrasco Kind, M. (2015). A hybrid ensemble learning approach to star--galaxy classification. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press, 453 (1), 507--521.
- Carrasco Kind, M., & Brunner, R. (2015). SparsePZ: Sparse Representation of Photometric Redshift PDFs. Astrophysics Source Code Library, ascl--1511.
- Carrasco Kind, M., & Brunner, R. (2014). Exhausting the information: novel Bayesian combination of photometric redshift PDFs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press, 442 (4), 3380--3399.
Other Publications
Articles
- Carrasco Kind, M., & Brunner, R. (2014). MLZ: Machine Learning for photo-Z. Astrophysics Source Code Library, ascl--1403.
- Carrasco Kind, M., & Brunner, R. (2014). SOM z: photometric redshift PDFs with self-organizing maps and random atlas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press, 438 (4), 3409--3421.
- Carrasco Kind, M., & Brunner, R. (2014). Sparse representation of photometric redshift probability density functions: preparing for petascale astronomy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press, 441 (4), 3550--3561.
- S\'anchez, C, ., Carrasco Kind, M., Lin, H., Miquel, R., Abdalla, F., Amara, A., Banerji, M., Bonnett, C., Brunner, R., Capozzi, D., & others, . (2014). Photometric redshift analysis in the Dark Energy Survey science verification data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press, 445 (2), 1482--1506.
- Carrasco Kind, M., & Brunner, R. (2013). Implementing Probabilistic Photometric Redshifts. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXII, 475 69.
- Carrasco Kind, M., & Brunner, R. (2013). TPZ: photometric redshift PDFs and ancillary information by using prediction trees and random forests. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Royal Astronomical Society, 432 (2), 1483--1501.
Conference Proceedings
- Yu, W., Carrasco Kind, M., & Brunner, R. (2017). A Jupyter-based Interactive Visualization Tool for Astronomical Catalogs. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts\# 229 ( vol. 229, pp. 438--02).
- Carrasco Kind, M., & Brunner, R. (2013). Precision Cosmology with a New Probabilistic Photometric Redshifts Approach. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts ( vol. 222, pp. 119--01).
Honors and Awards
- Trusted CI Open Science Cybersecurity Fellowship, NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, 2019
Contact
3052 Business Instructional Facility
515 Gregory Dr
Champaign, IL 61820