Dr Ting-Yun Cheng
(aka Sunny)

Hello! I am Sunny; a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Durham University. My research covers galaxy evolution and formation as well as a variety of machine learning (ML) techniques and their applications to analyse large-scale astronomical datasets.

As an Astrophysicist, my research investigates (i) how galaxies are formed and evolved in the early Universe and (ii) what mechanisms transform the structures and physical properties of galaxies across cosmic time. I try to answer these questiosn using large-scale survey data including images and spectra of millions of galaxies, and data collected from invidual telescopes myself!

As a Machine Learner, I am specialised at a variety of machine learning techniques to accelearte and improve the analyses of the coming plethora of astronomical datasets. In addition to the improvement of accuracy and efficiency to astronomical analyses, I also develop machine learning techniques to provide a new insight into galaxy structures.