Tanmay
Raswant

I'm Tanmay — an Astrophysics Honors student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with minors in Computer Science and Data Science. I work at the intersection of observational astronomy and computation. My research interests span time domain astronomy, compact objects, gravity, dark matter and dark energy. I also believe that there is a lot of untapped potential between Astronomy and AI, and I'm hoping to explore that in the future!

My primary research uses Type Ia supernovae as standard candles in the near-infrared to probe dark energy. Type Ia SN, being very consistent in their intrinsic peak brightness, allow us to map cosmological distances with extremely high precsion and constrain the Hubble Constant. My work involves using NIR data from HST and integrating it with ground-based facilities like LCO, ATLAS, and ZTF. I fit that data to light curves using BayeSN and SALT3 models, extracting parameters like dust and distance modulus to create Hubble diagrams and tackle Hubble Tension.

Previously, I worked on reconstructing the Gaia astrometric analysis pipeline using PyMC and PyTensor before the release of DR4. I served as the forward modeling team lead for the Single-star and planet models.

Outside the lab, I love cooking, being a cinephile, playing football (or how some of you might call soccer) and chess.