International Student Astronomy Organization

We are a community of high schoolers passionate about empowering astronomy enthusiasts to explore their interests through research, amateur stargazing, donating telescopes, helping to organize local events, and more. Join us or work with us to spread our love for the cosmos!

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Free, live opportunity to talk and ask questions with leading astronomy scientists and professors through our average monthly webinars.

Harvard University

Avi Loeb

Dr. Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He received his PhD in Plasma Physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986. was subsequently a long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during 1988-1993.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy0ctzALicE&t=27s

Stanford University

Anyi Rao

Dr. Rao is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford. His works have also been selected as the Most Influential Papers by Paper Digest. He assumes a leading role in the organization of the Creative Video Editing and Understanding Workshop at CVPR24, ICCV23, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTtQyhIx4n4

AI Researcher, Artist, Curator

Luba Elliott

Luba Elliott is a curator and researcher specializing in AI art. She works to educate and engage the broader public about the recent developments in AI art. She founded the NeurIPS Creativity and Design Workshop and curated the online galleries. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fMADbHR4k&t=10s

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bo Zhu

Dr. Bo Zhu is an Assistant Professor affiliated to the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the intersection of computer graphics, computational physics, computational design and fabrication, and scientific machine learning. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and completed postdoctoral training at MIT CSAIL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSLP8E4gtA&t=85s

Astrophysicist

Jason Steffen

Dr. Jason Steffen is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Steffen studies the formation and properties of planets orbiting distant stars. He aslo does work in gravitation, particle astrophysics, dark matter, dark energy, and the boarding of airplane passengers.

the University of Pennsylvania

Josh Nguyen

Josh Nguyen is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research combines network science, AI, and large-scale simulations to study social systems. He is also a visiting student at Argonne National Laboratory, where he explores high-performance computing applications for modeling complex phenomena.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znTDgN2iqNw&t=135s