The OYS award was established in 1959 to honor distinguished scientists 35 years old or younger working in academia.
The Maryland Academy of Sciences has selected John F. Wu of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, as the recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Young Scientist (OYS) award.
Using machine-learning methods that he developed, Dr. Wu has pioneered the discovery of low-mass galaxy candidates and contributed to theoretical models of galaxies, dark matter halos, and their cosmic surroundings. The algorithms are used to process astronomical imaging data at the pixel scale in order to understand how galaxy appearances are governed by their growth and evolution.
Dr. Wu is an assistant astronomer at STScI and an associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Wu began his tenure-track assistant astronomer position at STScI in 2022. He first joined STcI as a postdoctoral researcher in 2020, prior to which he was a postdoctoral researcher at JHU in 2019. He previously earned his PhD in physics and astronomy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2019, and his BSc in physics and astronomy at Carnegie Mellon University in 2013.
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