Paul J. Wright
Postdoc, Stanford University
paul [AT] pauljwright.co.uk
Bio
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University, and a Mentor at the NASA Frontier Development Lab. My research interests are in the application of machine learning in heliophysics.
Prior to coming to Stanford, I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Dr Iain G. Hannah. My PhD research concentrated on one of the unsolved problems in Heliophysics—the coronal heating problem. During my PhD I gained expertise in numerous time-series analysis techniques and methods for recovering the differential emission measure (an ill-posed inverse problem) from a wide range of spectroscopic and narrowband data. I am a member of the NuSTAR heliophysics working group and I led the analysis of the first solar flare observed by the NuSTAR hard X-ray astrophysics imaging spectrometer. I have also developed a stellar flare detection algorithm based on the observations obtained by the Kepler space telescope to determine the superflare rate of the Sun.
News
Publications
Complete list of publications on NASA ADS.
Machine Learning Dataset Prepared From the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission
Richard Galvez, David F. Fouhey, Meng Jin, Alexandre Szenicer, Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo, Mark C. M. Cheung, Paul J. Wright, Monica G. Bobra, Yang Liu, James Mason, Rajat Thomas
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2019
DeepEM: A Deep Learning Approach for DEM Inversion
Paul J. Wright, Mark Cheung, Rajat Thomas, Richard Galvez, Alexandre Szenicer, Meng Jin, Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo, David Fouhey
Helio-ML eBook, 2018
First NuSTAR Limits on Quiet Sun Hard X-Ray Transient Events
Andrew J. Marsh, David M. Smith, Lindsay Glesener, Iain G. Hannah, Brian W. Grefenstette, Amir Caspi, Säm Krucker, Hugh S. Hudson, Kristin K. Madsen, Stephen M. White, Matej Kuhar, Paul J. Wright, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Charles J. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Daniel Stern, William W. Zhang
Astrophysical Journal, 2017
Observations of Reconnection Flows in a Flare on the Solar Disk
Juntao Wang, Paulo J. A. Simões, Natasha L. S. Jeffrey, Lyndsay Fletcher, Paul J. Wright, Iain G. Hannah
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017
Microflare Heating of a Solar Active Region Observed with NuSTAR, Hinode/XRT, and SDO/AIA
Paul J. Wright, Iain G. Hannah, Brian W. Grefenstette, Lindsay Glesener, Säm Krucker, Hugh S. Hudson, David M. Smith, Andrew J. Marsh, Stephen M. White, Matej Kuhar
The Astrophysical Journal, 2017
Evidence of Significant Energy Input in the Late Phase of a Solar Flare from NuSTAR X-Ray Observations
Matej Kuhar, Säm Krucker, Iain G. Hannah, Lindsay Glesener, Pascal Saint-Hilaire, Brian W. Grefenstette, Hugh S. Hudson, Stephen M. White, David M. Smith, Andrew J. Marsh, Paul J. Wright, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Charles J. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Daniel Stern, William W. Zhang
The Astrophysical Journal, 2017
Curriculum Vitae
1 page CV is available here.
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NASA FDL 2019 May '19 - nowHeliophysics Mentor
Super-resolution Magnetograms -
Stanford University May '19 - nowPostdoctoral Research Fellow (HMI)
W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Lab. -
University of Glasgow Oct '14 - Apr '19PhD Student
Physics & Astrophysics -
Smithsonian Institution Jan - Mar '19Visiting Scientist
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian -
NASA FDL 2018 Jun - Aug '18Heliophysics Researcher
Space Weather Team -
NASA GSFC Apr - May '16Visiting Researcher
Goddard Space Flight Center -
SAO/Harvard University Aug '13 - Jun '14Research Scholar
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Dudley House, Harvard University -
University of Southampton Oct '10 - Jul '14MPhys Student
Physics & Astrophysics with a Year Abroad
First Class Honours