Publications
- 2025 Taaki, Kemball, Kamalabadi. PyStarshade: Simulating High-Contrast Imaging of Exoplanets with Starshades. Journal of Open Source Software. DOI
- 2025 Taaki, Kemball, Kamalabadi. A Search for Exoplanet Candidates in TESS 2-minute Light Curves Using Joint Bayesian Detection. The Astronomical Journal. DOI
- 2024 Taaki, Kemball, Kamalabadi. Robust Detrending of Spatially Correlated Systematics in Kepler Light Curves Using Low-Rank Methods. The Astronomical Journal. Link
- 2020 Taaki, Kamalabadi, Kemball. Bayesian Methods for Joint Exoplanet Transit Detection and Systematic Noise Characterisation. The Astronomical Journal. Link
Projects / Software
- PyStarshade — High-resolution starshade optics simulator. Utilizes the B-FFT to efficiently move through varying spatial scales.
- Spatial-detrend — Tools for spatially correlated systematics detrending.
- CUDA Transit Detection — Efficient full-rank covariance tests for Bayesian transit detection.
We were awarded a 250k Blue Waters allocation for its final year of operations. The allocation supported an exoplanet search in Years 1–3 of TESS short-cadence data, producing candidates listed on the EXOFOP database.
Enjoy an exoplanet a day: a Twitter bot in collaboration with Evan Widloski.
Past Research Work
Open University Mars Climate Lab (2015), supervised by Professor Stephen Lewis: simulated entry, descent, and landing profiles for Mars under varying climate conditions; analysed seasonal ice-cap variation using Martian climate simulations.
Contact
Email: xiaziyna@gmail.com · tjamila@umich.edu