Research projects for students

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Improving photometric redshift estimation

Photometric redshift estimation is a technique to guess the redshift of an extragalactic object (galaxy or quasar) based on its broadband magnitudes, when no spectroscopy is available. Similar techniques can be used to estimate other important physical properties of galaxies such as the start formation rate or total stellar mass.

Deep learning from astronomical images

Deep learning techniques find applications throughout all fields of quantitative science where sufficient data and training samples are available. Astronomy provides a series of problems that are ideal for deep learning, including imaging and spectroscopy.

Deep learning from astronomical spectra

Deep learning techniques find applications throughout all fields of quantitative science where sufficient data and training samples are available. Astronomy provides a series of problems that are ideal for deep learning, including imaging and spectroscopy.

Analysis of social systems

Until recently, it has been a time-consuming, costly and arduous task to collect and analyze data about individual humans at a large scale. With the advent of the digital era, there is a growing amount of data accessible online that enables the analysis and modeling of human behavior. We aim to understand these digital data sources and the methods that connect the data to real-world outcomes.

Fight against terrorism

To fight the war against terror, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) are increasingly relying on social media intelligence (SOCMINT), a new field of intelligence covering a wide range of applications, techniques and capabilities analysing social media data. These techniques include as Natural Language Processing (NLP), Social Network Analysis (SNA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Complex Event Processing (CEP).

Federating astronomical databases

Distributed and scalable databases and query execution, Spatial techniques for SQL databases, Virtual Observatory, noSQL solutions for distributed in-memory databases.

Virtual Observatory

Distributed and scalable databases and query execution, Spatial techniques for SQL databases, Virtual Observatory, noSQL solutions for distributed in-memory databases.