Informatics and Statistics

Chair(s): Tom Loredo (Cornell University) & Chad Schafer (Carnegie Mellon University)

Informatics and Statistics Official webpage here

The ISSC consists of over 40 data scientists devoted to developing tools for use with large astronomical surveys. Our team includes astronomers, statisticians, computer scientists, and machine learning researchers, with a shared objective of addressing the inference challenges facing LSST as it works to meet its scientific goals.