Shirley Ho

Shirley Ho is a prominent astrophysicist with extensive experience in cosmology and data science, currently serving as the Group Leader at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Simons Foundation since July 2018, where research focuses on fundamental cosmological measurements and machine learning applications. Additionally, Shirley is the Co-Founder of Parallaxis Technologies Inc., a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, and a Research Professor of Physics at New York University. Previously, valuable contributions were made as a Senior Scientist at Berkeley Lab and a Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where research involved Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Early career experiences include fellowships at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and research assistant positions at Princeton University, supplemented by a solid educational foundation with a PhD from Princeton University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley.