About Me

Hi, I am Tang, Shih-Yun (湯士昀) from Taiwan, currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Astronomy at UT Austin. I am working with Prof. Adam Kraus on using multi-band and multi-modal approaches to search for exoplanets around young, active stars. This work builds on the stellar activity model, EXSPLOSYN, which I developed as part of my thesis work with Prof. Christopher Johns-Krull and Dr. Lisa Prato. Together, this project aims to discover some of the youngest exoplanets around T Tauri stars and improve measurements of stellar and planetary parameters.

I earned my B.S. and M.S. in Physics from the National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. My initial research, under the mentorship of Prof. Wen-Ping Chen, involved characterizing stellar and substellar members of the Coma Berenices star cluster. For my Master’s thesis, I was the first to discover the tidal tails of the Coma Berenices star cluster, a project initiated during my 2018 summer internship at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and in collaboration with Prof. Xiaoying Pang. Together, we have been exploring the solar neighborhood using Gaia data to study stellar groups.

I am also passionate about teaching and outreach. I have delivered guest lectures, served as a teaching assistant, and mentored undergraduate research projects. In my spare time, I enjoy playing pickleball and have a keen interest in machine learning for data analysis.