Kyle Murphy Email & Phone Number

Dayton, Ohio Area

Supports research to mature and advance the understanding of electromagnetic phenomenology and its application to multiple fields, including Space Situational Awareness (SSA), atmospheric correction, etc.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Master’s Thesis: Characterizing Optical Counterparts of X-ray Sources in the Core of Omega Centauri (Advisor: Dr. Adrienne Cool)
• Wrote Python codes to sift through photometry for 470,000 stars in 8 different filters obtained from Hubble Space Telescope imaging of Omega Centauri
• Created color-magnitude diagrams to search for and characterize the optical counterparts of 67 X-ray sources within the star cluster
• Newly identified or confirmed 17 X-ray emitting binary stars in the cluster

San Francisco Bay Area

• Created and maintained employee accommodations database of over 300 faculty, staff, student employees, and administrators
• Assisted in professional communications including scheduling appointments for the employee accommodations manager, DPRC director, and university administrators
• Organized and maintained confidential files (medical documentation, emails, accommodation requests)
• Assisted in physical tasks necessary for accommodation support

San Francisco Bay Area

• Instructor for undergraduate course ASTR 116: Astronomy Laboratory
• Lectured, presented lab material, and guided hands-on activities to over 200 students with anemphasis on making the course material approachable and accessible to undergraduate students
• Provided one-on-one student support and tutoring in-class and in office hours
• Created quizzes and final to assess student understanding
• Calculated and assigned final grades
• 4.5/5 score of teacher effectiveness from student evaluations (Department Average: 4/5)

Austin, Texas Area

• Research project: Preparation for a future spectroscopic survey of the stars in the Kepler Field (Advisor: Dr. Michael Endl)
• Developed Fortran code necessary to determine stellar parameters (radial velocity, temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity) by comparing sample observed spectra to a library of synthetic model spectra

Master Of Science - Ms, Physics With A Concentration In Astronomy

Graduate Coursework: • Astronomy: Stellar Astrophysics, Radiative Processes and Gas Dynamics, Observational Techniques in Astronomy.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Astronomy And Astrophysics

Undergraduate Coursework: • Astronomy: Introduction to Astrophysics, Methods of Astronomical Observations and Data Analysis, Radio.