I am a Research Assistant in the Astroparticle Physics Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where I am currently doing research on neutron stars. In particular, we are inferencing neutron star parameters from NICER and Fermi light curves using neural networks.
Thibault Alain Patrick Lechien
(RESEARCH ASSISTANT)
| Email: | thibault.a.lechien@nasa.gov |
| Org Code: | 663 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 663 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | Southeastern Universities Research Assoc. |
Brief Bio
Positions/Employment
Research Assistant
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America
September 2023 - Present
Intern in the Advanced Concepts Team
European Space Agency - Noordwijk, The Netherlands
July 2022 - September 2022
Implemented a novel approach to reconstruct Dark Matter distributions from stellar orbits.
Research Intern
KU Leuven - Kortrijk, Belgium
June 2021 - September 2021
Constructed a neural network to reconstruct spectral functions of confined particles in High Energy Physics, generalizing upon previous approaches and achieving state of the art performance on genuine lattice data.
Research Intern
KU Leuven - Kortrijk, Belgium
June 2020 - September 2020
Combined AI and evolutionary algorithms to study a problem in graph theory, thereby gaining crucial insights into its solvers and finding gaps in the instance space.
Education
KU Leuven: Master of Science in Engineering (M. Sc.), Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude • Major in Artificial Intelligence (2021-2023)
KU Leuven: Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.), Computer Science, Cum laude (2018-2021)
Other Professional Information
My personal website: https://thibaultle.github.io/