Antonio (Tony) C. Rodriguez

Antonio (Tony) C. Rodriguez

I am a Data Sceintist on the Research team at Waymo. I was previously a full-time astrophysicist, working on understanding the extreme physics of binary stars. I am now an astrophysics enthusiast, and this research site contains my previous and current astrophysics work. I primarily use data-mining techniques, both classical and AI-based, to make new discoveries in the largest astronomical datasets ever collected.

Most recently, I held a Future Faculty Leader (FFL) Prize Fellowship at Harvard University in the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian (2025-2026). There, I was affiliated with the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) as well as the Insitute for Theory and Computation.

I earned my PhD in the Department of Astronomy at Caltech, where I worked with Professors Shri Kulkarni and Kareem El-Badry and was supported by various fellowships: NSF GRFP, Ford Foundation, and LSST-DA (2020-2025). I completed my undergraduate education in the Department of Physics at Stanford University (2016-2020), and I am originally from Salinas, California and an alumnus of the Summer Science Program.

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My full publication list is available on ADS and Google Scholar.

Curriculum Vitae

My CV can be viewed here.

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