Yuan-Sen Ting Email & Phone Number

Hello! I'm Yuan-Sen, an Associate Professor of Astronomy at Ohio State University and an Adjunct Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. Previously, I held positions as an Associate Professor of Astronomy and Computer Science at the Australian National University, and have held Visiting Professor position at Tsinghua University and Universiti Malaya.I received my Ph.D. in Astrophysics and Astronomy from Harvard University. As a Malaysian native, I've had the privilege of living in seven countries and picking up six languages along the way, truly embracing the role of a global citizen. I completed my concurrent Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the National University of Singapore and École Polytechnique in France on an Eiffel scholarship. During my studies, I was honored with the Institute for Physics Medal and the National Academy of Science Award in Singapore, as well as a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for my studies.Post-Ph.D., I was awarded a NASA Hubble Fellowship, Carnegie-Princeton Fellowship, and IAS Fellowship, enabling me to conduct postdoctoral research at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. I then joined the Australian National University as a tenured faculty member before moving back to the U.S. to join OSU. My career has been further enriched by recognitions such as the Humboldt Fellowship, the CCAPP Price Prize, and the ARC DECRA Fellowship.My research harnesses deep learning and artificial intelligence to advance data modeling and statistical inference in astrophysics. I specialize in extracting weak signals from massive datasets to tackle some of the field's most challenging problems. This work has resulted in over 200 publications, garnering more than 8,000 citations, including a Nature cover story. As the leader of AstroMLab, a collaborative effort with Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories, I guide a team of computer scientists and astrophysicists in developing specialized large language models and research agents for astrophysical applications.I'm deeply committed to promoting science in my home country, Malaysia. I've organized two major astronomy conferences and a summer school there, and I regularly write columns for Sin Chew Jit Poh, a leading Chinese newspaper with over a million readers. I've also given a TEDx talk in Malaysia and created two TED-Ed videos that have amassed over four million views combined.Beyond academia, I've served as a chief science officer on a project detecting art forgeries. And during my younger years, I was a top Night-Elf player in Warcraft 3 in Malaysia!