Kumail Zaidi

Argonne National Laboratory · CPAC Group

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Astrophysics PhD

Tufts University

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in observational and computational astrophysics, studying the galaxy-halo connection. I do so by forward modeling the galaxy observables like photometry from large multi-wavelength surveys using a novel and fully differentiable model called diffsky.

selected publications

  1. The FENIKS Survey: Stellar─Halo Mass Relationship of Central and Satellite Galaxies in UDS and COSMOS at 0.2 < z < 4.5
    Kumail Zaidi, David A. Wake, Danilo Marchesini, and 6 more authors
    \apj, Jun 2026
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  2. The FENIKS Survey: Multiwavelength Photometric Catalog in the UDS Field, and Catalogs of Photometric Redshifts and Stellar Population Properties
    Kumail Zaidi, Danilo Marchesini, Casey Papovich, and 11 more authors
    \apj, Jul 2024
    DOI