# Casey (@caseyjlaw.bsky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/caseyjlaw.bsky.social
Headline: Scientist at Caltech

## About

Always exploring and working to have a positive impact on the world.

## Experience

- **Astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics** (2000 – 2002)
  Observing support, including testing and documentation of data analysis software for the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
- **Scientist at Caltech** (2019 – present)
  Leading the Software and Algorithms Lab of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. Manage development of data analysis software for OVRO-LWA and DSA radio interferometers. Mentored high school and undergraduate students in research projects.
- **Scientist at UC Berkeley** (2008 – 2019)
  Fundamental research in astrophysics, including the study of the transient universe. Developing new techniques to use radio interferometers such as the Very Large Array and the Allen Telescope Array for transient/anomaly detection in large data streams. Mentored undergraduates in astronomical research projects.
- **Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Amsterdam** (2006 – 2008)
  Scientist on the commissioning team for LOFAR, a novel radio interferometer in the Netherlands and throughout Europe. Worked to bring this new telescope from an engineering concept to a full observatory.

## Education

- **Northwestern University** — Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (2002 – 2006)
- **Boston University** — Master of Arts (MA) (1998 – 2000)
- **University of Hawaii at Manoa** — Bachelor of Science (BS) (1995 – 1998)

## Skills

- Astronomy
- Interferometry
- Mathematical Modeling
- Scientific Computing
- Big Data
- Science
- Numerical Analysis
- Fortran
- Image Processing
- Python
- Data Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Data Science
- Spectroscopy
- Astrophysics
- LaTeX
- Physics
- Research
- Computational Physics
- Statistics

## Projects

- **Bispectrum Radio Transient Detection** — http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0308
  We developed an algorithm for efficiently searching massive data streams of radio interferometers for brief, transient sources. This technique is robust to common sources of confusion in such searches and computationally efficient, making real-time data processing possible.

## Publications

- All Transients, All the Time: Real-time Radio Transient Detection with Interferometric Closure Quantities — The Astrophysical Journal (http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/adsabs/abs/2012ApJ...749..143L)
- Millisecond Imaging of Radio Transients with the Pocket Correlator — The Astrophysical Journal (http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/adsabs/abs/2011ApJ...742...12L)
- Spectropolarimetry with the Allen Telescope Array: Faraday Rotation Toward Bright Polarized Radio Galaxies — The Astrophysical Journal (http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/adsabs/abs/2011ApJ...728...57L)
- X-Ray Observations of Stellar Clusters Near the Galactic Center — The Astrophysical Journal (http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/adsabs/abs/2004ApJ...611..858L)

## Volunteering

- Grant writer at Cleveland Elementary School
- Member at Open Oakland
- Tutor, Coordinator at Prison University Project

## Languages

- Dutch (elementary)
- French (elementary)