Stela Ishitani Silva

Title: Staff Scientist

Room Number: KS-323

Email (@ipac.caltech.edu): stela

Research Interests: My research interests include exoplanets, gravitational microlensing, time-domain astronomy, machine learning, and large astronomical datasets. I have expertise in detecting and characterizing exoplanets using microlensing and transit methods, developing automated lightcurve analysis pipelines, and applying statistical and machine-learning techniques to identify rare astrophysical signals. My current work focuses on planetary microlensing event identification and modeling for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. I am a member of the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics collaboration and the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team, and serve as pipeline scientist for event identification and modeling within the Roman Microlensing Science Operations System at IPAC.