Presenter

Daniel George is a PhD student in Astronomy, with a fellowship in Computational Science and Engineering, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his Bachelor's degree, with Honors, in Engineering Physics from IIT Bombay. He is currently a Research Assistant in the Gravity Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), a member of the LIGO, NANOGrav, and Dark Energy Survey collaborations, and an LSST Data Science Fellow, working at the interface of deep learning, signal processing, high-performance computing, and gravitational wave and multimessenger astrophysics. He is also working part-time on deep learning and natural language understanding at Wolfram Research. His long-term interests lie in applying cutting-edge computer science and technology, especially artificial intelligence, to accelerate discoveries in the fundamental sciences.