Ivy Wong

Affiliate

CSIRO

Biography

Ivy Wong is an Australian research astronomer working in Perth at CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science. She is currently a CSIRO Science Leader in massive data challenges in the SKA era. Ivy is primarily a radio astronomer (specialising in large all-sky surveys of atomic Hydrogen and radio continuum), who is also an expert in observations using space-based telescopes in the ultraviolet and infrared, as well as ground-based optical imaging and spectroscopy. The open science questions that she currently studies are: how galaxies get gas to form stars; how galaxies regulate and retire from star formation; how central supermassive black holes grow (AGN); and what is the impact of AGN versus the impact of a galaxy’s environment in shaping the star formation history and evolution of a galaxy. In preparation for the upcoming start of the ASKAP surveys such as WALLABY and EMU, Ivy’s current research interests include the development of alternative techniques such as the applications of machine/deep learning algorithms to radio astronomy, and citizen science.