Salem Cherenet

Dark Energy Survey

GEM Fellowship

KIPAC_stack

During the summer of 2011 I participated in an internship as part of the GEM Fellowship program at SLAC National Accelerator Lab. I worked with Dark Energy Survey group under the supervision of Aaron Roodman and Kevin Reil on several projects, which includes

  • The focus-and-alignment system, measuring out-of-focus “doughnuts” to optimize the DES images in real-time.
  • Developing Discrete PID controller in Python for multiple input single output system.
  • Star/Galaxy Classification using a method of Artificial Neural Network and Boosted Decision Making through TMVA (a root based Multi Variable Analysis software)