By Jennifer T. Allen, Hannah Edelen, Jenny Wells-Hosley and Richard LeComte
As humans search for intelligent life–or any life at all—in the universe, they’re using their own intelligence to craft new ways of exploring galaxies. They’re even starting to use artificial intelligence, itself a new frontier, to deepen science’s understanding of what lies beyond.
That’s where Yuanyuan Su, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is applying her own intelligence. She and her group are using artificial intelligence to analyze images gathered from the space and ground telescopes to figure out what’s actually there.
Su has received the 2024 Early Career Prize from the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. The