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Ivy Wong joined CASS, Kensington at the end of January as a CSIRO
science leader working on the massive data challenges in the SKA era.
Ivy is primarily a radio astronomer (working with large all-sky
surveys of atomic Hydrogen and radio continuum), and is also an expert
in observations using space-based telescopes in the ultraviolet and
infrared wavelengths, as well as ground-based optical imaging and
spectroscopy. The open science questions that she currently studies
are: how galaxies get gas to form stars; how galaxies regulate and
retire from star formation; how central supermassive black holes grow
(AGN); and what is the impact of AGN versus the impact of a galaxy’s
environment in shaping the star formation history and evolution of a
galaxy. In preparation for the upcoming start of the ASKAP surveys
such as WALLABY and EMU, Ivy’s current research interests include the
development of alternative techniques such as citizen science
(Radio Galaxy Zoo)
and applications of machine learning algorithms towards
radio astronomy problems. Ivy obtained her PhD in Astrophysics from
the University of Melbourne in 2008 when she was also an ATNF
co-supervised PhD student working on HIPASS. The image above shows her
early evolutionary stages from being an ATNF co-supervised student
conducting follow-up observations at Parkes to a duty astronomer
postdoc at the ATCA. After her PhD, she worked at Yale University
(USA), CASS (Marsfield) and ICRAR/UWA, before moving back to CASS
(Kensington).
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