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Andrew Chael

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Andrew Chael
BornAlbuquerque, New Mexico
🏡 ResidenceCambridge, Massachusetts
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🎓 Alma materCarleton College
Harvard University
💼 Occupation
Known forBlack Hole image
🌐 Websiteachael.github.io

Andrew Chael (born 1990/1991)[1] is an American astrophysicist and a member of the Event Horizon Telescope imaging working group and team that created the first simulated image of a black hole.

Early life and education[edit]

Chael grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he attended Manzano High School.[2][3] He received a bachelor in physics from Carleton College in 2013.[4][3] He is a graduate student at Harvard University, where he is part of the Black Hole Initiative, and a member of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team.[5][6][7]

His research focuses on the simulation and imaging of black holes Sgr A* and M87.[5]

Career[edit]

In 2019 he became an Einstein fellow on the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.[8] His work as a fellow has focused on flaring black holes using a combination of simulations and images obtained by the EHT.[3] He helped developed software to piece together using data collected within the EHT project to create the first-ever image of a black hole[9][10] that simulates what scientists believe the telescope will collect to create the simulation of M87, one of the black holes the EHT has been looking at.[5]

After the release of the image, Katie Bouman, who developed one of the algorithms used in the black hole image, and a PBS article PBS that featured Bouman,[11] the story went viral.[1][12]

In response, a number of posts on Reddit and Twitter claimed Chael was the main contributor of the project and Bouman was being pushed forward by an agenda-driven media.[10][1][13] Chael repeatedly refuted the claims in media interviews and on social media, calling them "sexist" on a Twitter thread that also went viral.[1][10][13] He debunked the posts using lines of code changed in the git repository to measure contributions, saying that many such lines tracked were the result of him updating model data.[14] He added that it "was ironic that they chose me",[13] since, as a gay man, he was part of what he called an "underrepresented" minority in STEM.[13][1] Chael further set the record straight by telling People magazine, “Our papers used three independent imaging software libraries (including one developed by my friend @sparse_k). While I wrote much of the code for one of these pipelines, Katie was a huge contributor to the software."[15]

Awards[edit]

In 2019, Chael won the Eric Keto Prize for the best doctorate thesis in astrophysics at Harvard.[16]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Elfrink, Tim (12 April 2019). "Trolls hijacked a scientist's image to attack Katie Bouman. They picked the wrong astrophysicist". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  2. Bade, Brittany (2019-04-13). "Albuquerque native helps create first-ever image of black hole". KRQE. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "2019 NHFP Fellows". STScI. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  4. Weitz, Drew. "Andrew Chael Comps Talk". Physics and Astronomy. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Andrew Chael". bhi.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  6. Wednesday, Nathaniel Scharping | Published:; April 3; 2019. "Here's what scientists think their first picture of a black hole migh". Astronomy magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  7. "Harvard scientists lead team revealing black hole". Harvard Gazette. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  8. "2019 NHFP Fellows". Space Telescope Science Institute.
  9. Aut, Grant Andrew author (2019-04-11). "What it took to capture a black hole". doi:10.1063/PT.6.1.20190411a.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 CNN, Michelle Lou and Saeed Ahmed. "To undermine Katherine Bouman's role in the black hole photo, trolls held up a white man as the real hero -- until he fought back". CNN. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  11. Stein, Vicky (11 April 2019). "Katie Bouman 'hardly knew what a black hole was.' Her algorithm helped us see one". PBS NewsHour.
  12. Mervosh, Sarah (2019-04-11). "How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "Black Hole Scientist Defends Female Colleague Against Sexist Trolls". HuffPost UK. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  14. Chael, Andrew (11 April 2019). "(Also I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored)". @thisgreyspirit. Twitter. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  15. Hahn, Jason Duaine (April 12, 2019). "Male Scientist Claps Back at Trolls Who Tried to Discredit Female Colleague's Role in Black Hole Photo". PEOPLE.com.
  16. "Congratulations to Andrew Chael". bhi.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-14.

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