Spencer Bialek

Certified Spacewizard.

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Ph.D. Graduate

University of Victoria

Victoria, BC

Hello there! I recently graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Victoria where I focused on artificial intelligence, stellar astrophysics, and especially the intersection of both. I was supervised by Dr. Kim Venn and Dr. Sébastien Fabbro on several exciting projects. I love teaching and sharing my passions through public outreach. Outside of academia, I love the following things and more: rock climbing, hiking, outdoor adventures, cooking pizza from scratch, music festivals, reading, Arduino, playing piano, snowboarding, surfing, hackathons, and hanging with my cats. I recently got a job as a Machine Learning Specialist at Ocean Networks Canada, where I work on modernizing their data quality assurance processes.

news

Mar 15, 2025 Launched ChatTNG, a chatbot that responds with Star Trek clips! Check it out at chattng.com.
May 8, 2024 Our paper on DanceCam has been accepted to the MNRAS journal!
Sep 20, 2023 I am presenting my StarUnlink work at the IAU Symposium 385. Check out the program!
Sep 1, 2023 I was interviewed about my StarUnlink publication! Here’s the article.

selected publications

2024

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    DanceCam: atmospheric turbulence mitigation in wide-field astronomical images with short-exposure video streams
    Spencer Bialek, Emmanuel Bertin, Sébastien Fabbro, and 4 more authors
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Apr 2024

2023

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