Participants & Registration

Join us to build the AI tools that will unlock Rubin science

Scenes from the Hackathon

Three days of hacking, talks, and collaboration at the SkAI Institute

Registration

Registration is Closed

Registration for the Rubin Alerts & AI Hackathon 2026 is now closed. Please contact us at rubinalerts@lists.skai-institute.org with any questions.

Organizing Committee

The hackathon is organized by researchers at the SkAI Institute and partner institutions

IA

Igor Andreoni

UNC Chapel Hill, TVSSC

RH

Renée Hložek

U. Toronto, DESC

AM

Adam Miller

Northwestern, TVSSC

AM

Anupreeta More

IUCAA, SLSC

GN

Gautham Narayan

UIUC, DESC — Committee Chair

AP

Andrés A. Plazas Malagón

Rubin Observatory, Community Scientist

AV

Ashley Villar

Harvard, ISSC

MW

Matthew Wiesner

Benedictine, DESC

YZ

Yuanyuan Zhang

NOIRLab, DESC

Confirmed Participants

Researchers joining us for the Rubin Alerts & AI Hackathon

HA

Henna Abunemeh

UIUC — In-Person

GA

Gautham Adamane Pallathadka

Johns Hopkins — Hybrid

SA

Shrihan Agarwal

U. Chicago — In-Person

AA

Aadya Agrawal

UIUC — In-Person

UA

Uzay Aydin

Erciyes University — Hybrid

SC

Siddharth Chaini

U. Delaware — Hybrid

MC

Michael Cichonski

Dunlap Institute, U. Toronto — Hybrid

MC

Mohammed Chamma

McGill — In-Person

RC

Rebecca Chen

Stanford/KIPAC/SLAC — In-Person

IC

Ioana Ciuca

Stanford — In-Person

DC

David Coulter

JHU/STScI — In-Person

PD

Phelipe A. Darc

CBPF & Northwestern — In-Person

YD

Yuxin Dong

Northwestern — In-Person

AD

Anirban Dutta

National Central Univ., Taiwan — Hybrid

NE

Nicholas Earl

UIUC — In-Person

RE

Rasha Eldaly

NRIAG — Hybrid

TG

Tobias Géron

U. Toronto — In-Person

JG

Jimena Gonzalez

Northwestern / SkAI Institute — In-Person

CH

Christopher Hernandez

U. Pittsburgh — In-Person

JH

Jason Hinkle

UIUC — In-Person

RH

Renée Hložek

U. Toronto — Hybrid

WJ

Wynn Jacobson-Galan

Caltech — In-Person

CJ

L. Clifton Johnson

Northwestern / Adler Planetarium — In-Person

YK

Yijung Kang

Rubin Observatory/SLAC — Hybrid

JK

Jenna Karcheski

UC Santa Cruz — In-Person

RK

Richard Kessler

U. Chicago — In-Person

CK

Charles Kilpatrick

Northwestern — In-Person

RK

Rob Knop

LBNL — In-Person

SK

Sthabile Kolwa

UNISA — Hybrid

SK

Scott Koranda

UIUC — In-Person

PK

Piramon Kumnurdmanee

Northwestern — In-Person

JL

Jennifer Li

UIUC — Hybrid

CL

Chang Liu

Northwestern — In-Person

AM

Alex Malz

STScI — In-Person

TM

Timothy Manning

UIUC/NCSA — In-Person

EM

Elijah Marlin

Boston University — In-Person

WM

Wendy Mendoza

U. Texas Rio Grande Valley — Hybrid

AM

Ayan Mitra

UIUC — In-Person

YM

Yashasvi Moon

UIUC — In-Person

CM

Chauncey Murphey

UIUC — In-Person

FN

Felipe Fontinele Nunes

U. Minnesota — In-Person

SO

Sarah Opoku

Northwestern / CIERA — In-Person

VP

Vincenzo Petrecca

INAF-OACN — In-Person

JP

Justin Pierel

STScI — In-Person

AP

Andrés Plazas Malagón

SLAC/KIPAC/Stanford/Rubin — Hybrid

TR

Tanmay Raswant

UIUC — In-Person

NR

Nabeel Rehemtulla

Northwestern — In-Person

MR

Madison Reich

Penn State — In-Person

MS

Margaret Shepherd

UIUC — In-Person

NS

Nora Sherman

Boston University — In-Person

MS

Michael Solontoi

Monmouth College — In-Person

AS

Aswin Suresh

Northwestern — In-Person

XT

Xianzhe Tang

Boston University — In-Person

MV

Mariana Vasquez

Fisk/Vanderbilt — In-Person

PV

Padma Venkatraman

UIUC — In-Person

AW

Amanda Wasserman

UIUC — In-Person

MZ

Miranda Zak

Penn State — In-Person

This list will be updated as registrations are confirmed.