About Me

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About Me

I am an astrophysicist working on understanding the extreme physics of binary stars. I apply data mining techniques, both classical and artificial intelligence (AI)-based, to make discoveries in the the largest astronomical datasets ever made.

I earned my PhD in the Astronomy Department at Caltech working with Professors Shri Kulkarni, Kareem El-Badry, and Tom Prince. I was fortunate to be an NSF Graduate Fellow, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, and LSST-DA Data Science Fellow.

My work primarily relies on a multiwavelength crossmatch between X-rays from the SRG/eROSITA mission and optical data from the Zwicky Transient Facility and Gaia, though I also use data from other X-ray, optical, and radio telescopes. I am broadly interested in applying statistical techniques to extract scientific results out of large astronomical datasets, and have shown that a simple tool, the “X-ray Main Sequence”, can efficiently reveal the true demographics of accreting white dwarfs in the solar neighborhood.

I’m originally from the town (small city) of Salinas, California and then completed my undergraduate education in the Physics Department at Stanford University.

Publications

Read about my work on ADS and Google Scholar

Curriculum Vitae

My CV can be viewed here.

Contact Info

Email: tonycuevas98 “at” gmail.com