Projects

1. Before the big dive : the star formation histories of galaxies at the edge of galaxy clusters
   Keywords:
   Big data
   Galaxies
   Galaxy clusters
   Galaxy evolution
   HSC
   Photometry
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Ariane Trudeau

2. Beyond Halo Mass: Building Realistic Galaxy Mock Catalogs
   Keywords:
   Big Data
   Cosmology
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Tomomi Sunayama

3. BURSTT development and analysis
   Keywords:
   FPGA
   FRB
   pulsar
   radio transient
   VLBI
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Kai-yang Lin, Chao-Te Li, Homin Jiang, Chau-Ching Chiong, Shih-Hao Wang, Daniel Baker

4. CIB–CMB Lensing
   Keywords:
   Cosmology
   Galaxy formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Yi-Kuan Chiang

5. Cosmic Dust SEDs for Next-Generation CMB and CIB Measurements
   Keywords:
   Cosmology
   Galaxy formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Yi-Kuan Chiang

6. Detecting Cosmic CO Emission Using Planck Bandpass Differences
   Keywords:
   Cosmology
   Galaxy formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Yi-Kuan Chiang

7. Detecting Planet Signatures in Embedded Disks
   Keywords:
   ALMA
   Protoplanetary Disk
   Radio Astronomy
   Star and Planet Formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Hsi-Wei Yen

8. Determining the Mass Reservoir of Forming Stars
   Keywords:
   ALMA
   Radio Astronomy
   Single-Dish Telescope
   Star Formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Hsi-Wei Yen

9. Dispersing the Mass Reservoir of Forming Stars
   Keywords:
   Radio Astronomy
   Single-Dish Telescope
   SMA
   Star Formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Hsi-Wei Yen

10. Explorations of Numerical Codes and Solvers in Astrophysical Systems 2026
    Keywords:
    CompAS
    computational fluid dynamics
    Numerical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Hsien Shang

11. Exploring Galaxy Astrophysics with SDSS and DESI Spectra
    Keywords:
    Big data
    Galaxies
    Spectra
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Ting-Wen Lan

12. Exploring morphological and kinematical signatures of accretion outburst-hosting disks in star formation
    Keywords:
    Disk substructures
    Protostellar disks
    Star Formation
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Indrani Das, Travis J. Thieme

13. Exploring Organic Molecules in a Solar-like Protostellar core
    Keywords:
    ALMA
    Astrochemistry
    Observation
    Organic Molecules
    Protostar
    Radio Astronomy
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Shih-Ying Hsu, Chin-Fei Lee

14. Exploring the origin of accretion outbursts in star formation
    Keywords:
    Accretion Variability
    Protoplanetary Disks
    Star Formation
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Indrani Das

15. Finding Blue Clusters: When Did Galaxy Clusters Stop Forming Stars?
    Keywords:
    Big Data
    Cosmology
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Tomomi Sunayama

16. Gas and Stellar Size of AGN host galaxies
    Keywords:
    ALMA
    Extragalactic Astronomy
    Imaging & Spectroscopy
    JWST
    Observation
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk, Shoichiro Mizukoshi, Chen Chian-Chou, Wang Wei-Hao,

17. How Do Galaxies Grow? Tracking Size Evolution in Simulated Galaxies
    Keywords:
    Galaxy Evolution
    Galaxy Morphology
    Multi-wavelength Astronomy
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Angelo George

18. How dust and turbulence coevolve in protoplanetary disks
    Keywords:
    Dust evolution
    Numerical Simulations
    Planet Formation
    Protoplanetary Disks
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Yuya Fukuhara

19. JAX-accelerated photochemical modeling
    Keywords:
    Code development
    Exoplanets
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Shang-Min Tsai

20. Making Precision Cosmology Possible: Analytic Covariance for Galaxy Clusters
    Keywords:
    Cosmology
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Tomomi Sunayama

21. Methods of Streamer Identification in the Collapsing Envelopes of Low-Mass Protostars
    Keywords:
    ALMA
    Observation
    Radio Astronomy
    Star Formation
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Travis J. Thieme, Hsi-Wei Yen

22. Observing the Signatures of Ambipolar Diffusion: Investigating Neutral versus Ion Line Widths in Molecular Cloud Dense Cores
    Keywords:
    Radio Astronomy
    Single-Dish Telescope
    Star Formation
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Sheng-Jun Lin, Hsi-Wei Yen, Indrani Das

23. Probing Star Forming Processes in Action 2026
    Keywords:
    AI
    ALMA
    CHARMS
    Early Solar System
    High Performance Computing
    JWST
    Meteorites
    ML
    Numerical Astrophysics
    Protostellar Disks
    Protostellar Envelopes
    Protostellar Jets
    Protostellar Outflows
    Simulations
    Star and Planet Formation
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Hsien Shang

24. Protecting our space with optical observations
    Keywords:
    Observations
    Space Science
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Ying-Tung Chen, Shiang-Yu Wang, Wei-Hao Wang

25. Spectral Variability of Local AGN with a Focus on Optical Hydrogen Lines
    Keywords:
    Observation
    Optical Spectroscopy
    Supermassive Black Hole
    Time-domain Astronomy
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Shoichiro Mizukoshi, Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk

26. Studying dust emission from a moving vortex in a protoplanetary disk
    Keywords:
    ALMA
    Numerical Astrophysics
    planet formation
    VLA
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Pin-Gao Gu, Hsi-Wei Yen

27. Thermal evolution of a photoevaporating sub-Neptune
    Keywords:
    Exoplanet
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Pin-Gao Gu, Shang-Min Tsai

28. Uncertainty quantification of sulfur chemistry in exoplanet atmospheres
    Keywords:
    Exoplanets
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Shang-Min Tsai

29. Uncover the Secrets of Our Solar System's Birth: AstroLab Student Program 2026
    Keywords:
    Bennu
    Extraterrestrial Material
    IR Spectroscopy
    JAXA
    Meteorites
    NanoSIMS
    NASA
    RAMAN
    Ryugu
    Solar System
    Solar System Dust
    Star and Planet Formation
    Synchrotron Radiation
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Hsien Shang, Der-Chuan Lee, Ming-Jye Wang, + AstroLab Team

30. What is the Nature of Protostellar Disk Formation? A Comparison between the Distributions of Protostellar Disk Radii in Observed and Synthetic Populations
    Keywords:
    ALMA
    Radio Astronomy
    Star Formation
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Travis J. Thieme, Hsi-Wei Yen

31. What powers the radio emission from the most luminous starbursts?
    Keywords:
    ALMA
    Galaxy evolution
    High-redshift galaxies
    Radio astronomy
    VLA
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Hiddo Algera

32. Why Do Galaxies Stop Forming Stars? A Radial View of Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations
    Keywords:
    Cosmological Simulations
    Galaxy Evolution
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Angelo George