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, I am curious about (i) how galaxies are formed and evolved to what we see today and (ii) what drives the transformation of galaxy structures. I am particularly interested in connecting the impacts of galaxy collisions and gases surrouding galaxies on the transformation of galaxies at different temporal and spatial scales! I investigate these questions using large-scale survey data including images and spectra of millions of galaxies, as well as from invidual telescopes.

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 to interpret galaxy structures.