A big fan of coding and physics, Dino earned a masters in Computational Physics at Faculty of Science Split, Croatia, on the topic of linear feature detection in astronomical images. Having re-analyzed the entire Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) ~16TB large image dataset he discovered his passion for Big Data and related image analysis problems. As a graduate student at University of Washington, Dino works on Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Data Management code, adding support for cloud services and executing Science Pipelines in the cloud. To various different extent he is also involved in other projects such as image differencing, kernel based moving object detection (KBMOD) and deblending.

Brigitta Sipőcz is an astronomer by training, and occasionally still observes the night sky, but she currently spends most of her time writing and maintaining software. She works on the development and extension of astroML and collaborates with other DiRAC researchers on methodologies and applications of time series data and topics related to data intensive astrophysics.Brigitta is one of the key core maintainers of Astropy, including the core library and several other major packages in the wider ecosystem of affiliated and infrastructure packages. She enjoys solving DevOps and integration challenges that affect widely used libraries. She has a keen interest in the sustainability of software and the role of research software engineers in academia. She treasures her time at DiRAC as the best opportunity to deepen knowledge about a wide variety of topics, from cutting edge astronomical algorithms, through probabilistic programming, to cloud engineering.

I am a research scientist at the University of Washington, working in the Data Management/Alerts Pipeline team of the LSST. I completed my bachelors in 2002 at Carleton College, in Northfield, MN, and my doctorate in 2010 at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, PA, both in physics and astronomy. I use large galaxy surveys to study galaxy evolution and the history and fate of the Universe.