Participants & Registration

Join leading researchers in shaping the future of transient light curve classification

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Scientific Organizing Committee

The workshop is organized by leading experts in time-domain astronomy and machine learning

AM

Adam Miller

Northwestern University
CIERA
SkAI Institute

GN

Gautham Narayan

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SkAI Institute

AV

Ashley Villar

Harvard University
NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions

FB

Federica Bianco

University of Delaware

MC

Michael Coughlin

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Confirmed Participants

Researchers and experts joining us for TDAbench 2026

AA

Aadya Agrawal

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

NA

Nayana A.J.

University of California, Berkeley

SRB

Srinadh Reddy Bhavanam

Clemson University

BB

Benny Border

University of Minnesota

JC

Jon Carney

UNC Chapel Hill

AC

Arjun Chainani

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

SC

Siddharth Chaini

University of Delaware

HC

Hong-Yu Chen

Northwestern University

MD

Mi Dai

University of Pittsburgh

SD

Shar Daniels

University of Delaware

PM

Phelipe A. Darc De Matos

Northwestern University
CBPF

CD

Conaire Deagan

University of New South Wales

SD

Steven Dillmann

Stanford University

MD

Mariano Dominguez

IATE-OAC-UNC

SF

Sara Faris

Tel Aviv University

FN

Felipe Fontinele Nunes

University of Minnesota

NF

Noah Franz

University of Arizona
Steward Observatory

CF

Christoffer Fremling

Caltech

JH

Jacob Osman Hjortlund

Stockholm University

CK

Charlie Kilpatrick

Northwestern University

DK

Dongho Kim

Northwestern University

AL

Antoine Le Calloch

University of Minnesota

XL

Xiaolong Li

Johns Hopkins University

RL

Ray Liang

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

CL

Chang Liu

Northwestern University
CIERA

DL

Di Luo

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

KM

Konstantin Malanchev

Carnegie Mellon University

AM

Adam Miller

Northwestern University
CIERA
SkAI Institute

GN

Gauri Nair

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

GN

Gautham Narayan

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

NN

Nikki Noughani

University of Toronto

AP

Ayush Prasad

Finnish Meteorological Institute

SP

Sasha Pyshna

Caltech

FR

Fabio Ragosta

University of Naples "Federico II"

AR

Avyukt Raghuvanshi

University of Minnesota

NR

Nabeel Rehemtulla

Northwestern University
CIERA
SkAI Institute

NS

Noelle Samia

Northwestern University
SkAI Institute

AS

Argyro Sasli

University of Minnesota

IS

Itai Sfaradi

University of California, Berkeley

VS

Ved Shah

Northwestern University
CIERA
SkAI Institute

SC

Sushant Sharma Chaudhary

University of Minnesota

XS

Xinyue Sheng

Queen's University Belfast

AS

Aswin Suresh

Northwestern University
CIERA

AT

Andrew Toivonen

Los Alamos National Laboratory

NV

Nicholas Vieira

Northwestern University
CIERA

AW

Amanda Wassserman

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

DW

Dennis Wu

Northwestern University

This list will be updated as registrations are confirmed.

Invited Speakers

Distinguished researchers presenting at TDAbench 2026

CF

Christoffer Fremling

Caltech

AM

Alex Malz

Space Telescope Science Institute

TBA

Invited Speaker

To Be Announced