My name is Georgios (George) Vassilakis, and I'm a PhD Student in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge studying machine learning and astronomical imaging. Previously, I was at Northeastern University in Boston, studying Applied Physics with a minor in Data Science and a concentration in Astrophysics. I was also an intern at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the summer of 2025, where I simulated dark matter subhalo detection with strong lensing for the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory.
- Lead developer of the SMPy project, which provides an accessible and modular Python toolkit for mapping dark matter distributions using weak gravitational lensing data from astronomical surveys.
- Lead developer of the HWO-SLAPS pipeline, which serves as a hub for simulating and detecting low mass dark matter subhalos in strong gravitational lensing systems. This work was performed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- Contributing developer to the superbit-lensing analysis pipeline, which aims to measure galaxy shapes from NASA's SuperBIT Telescope observations.
- Developed Scientific Machine Learning pipelines (coupled Deep Operator Networks) to model the governing physics for solid-state batteries, as part of the Juner Zhu Group.
- For an astronomical data mining directed study, I created EMOS, which is an exomoon light curve simulator. It can be found here.
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🏋️ I was a nationally ranked Olympic-style weightlifter for Northeastern University's Olympic Weightlifting Team! I built and maintained the site for our team's weekly programming. You can find the link here!
🎸 I've played both electric and acoustic (Flamenco) guitar for over 8 years!