$ Eddie Berman / About (Back)

My main interests are at the intersection of Optics, Computer Vision, and Astronomy. Specifically, how can we embed inductive biases from optical physics into computer vision problems? Similarly, how can we use techniques from computer vision to solve problems in astronomical imaging? I am of course also interested in problems that fall strictly within one of those three domains. I am especially interested in problems at the forefront of equivariant machine learning, differentiable programming, and/or uncertainty quantification.

A lot of my work is focused on next generation imagers like JWST. I model telescope limitations and systematics to enable weak lensing analysis and exoplanet discovery. To achieve this, I work very closely with both domain scientists and applied math specialists. I am fortunate to collaborate with both COSMOS-Web: The JWST Cosmic Origins Survey and AstroAI at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard | Smithsonian. I am advised by Professor Jacqueline McCleary in the department of Physics at Northeastern University as well as Professor Robin Walters in Northeastern's Khoury College of Computer Science Geometric Learning Lab. This summer I will be visiting with the AstroAI group at the CfA.

Recently, I've become interested in the question "Does equivariance matter at scale?" for the type of problems I am interested in. If you have strong feelings on The Bitter Lesson, please paper plane me :)

For a full reading list, go here :D

Below, you can find a couple of pictures of me where I am most happy ^_^, usually when I am attending conferences with my friends and traversing the local neighborhood