People
Gregory Laughlin
Professor of Astronomy
What do you do with Data Science?
I have worked on a number of problems that draw on large data sets. In Astronomy, I have recently collaborated with Malena Rice (who starts a Yale Faculty position in 2023) on novel techniques to detect Solar System bodies within the photometric data sets obtained by the NASA TESS Mission (https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13791). In Academic Finance, I have used large tick data sets from the CME futures exchange and from the Nasdaq, NYSE, and Cboe equity exchanges to determine end-to-end network latencies within the US financial markets (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2227519). In Network Science, I was Co-I on an NSF-funded project which developed plans for ultra-low-latency communications networks that can serve as overlays to the current Internet (https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/bhattacherjee). As an entrepreneur in data-centric fields, I am co-founder of the prediction website Metaculus (www.metaculus.com), and the language generation startup Lucinetic (www.lucinetic.com).