April Q. Cheng
Location Potsdam
Main Focus
My research currently focuses on studying dark siren techniques to measure the Hubble constant with the gravitational waves from compact mergers. I am interested in the advantages and caveats of using cross-correlations to infer cosmology with gravitational waves.
Publications
Here are links to my publications: from INSPIRE, and from the ADS database.
Curriculum Vitae
I obtained my BS at MIT (2024), where I graduated in three years with a major in physics and a minor in mathematics. There, I studied biases in astrophysical inferences on gravitational waves with Professor Salvatore Vitale, and dispersion-measure dependent selection effects on fast radio burst cross-correlations with Professor Kiyoshi Masui. In 2023, I also studied mass-spin correlations in binary black hole populations at Caltech as a LIGO Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow. At MIT, I have won the Barrett Prize (2024) and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (2024). I am a former USA representative at the International Olympiad of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2018-2020), Astronaut Scholar (2023), and attendee of the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (2024). I am currently a Fulbright scholar (2024) at the AEI under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Gair, and I plan to pursue my PhD in astrophysics at Princeton starting in 2025.