Paul J. Wright
Postdoc, Stanford University
paul [AT] pauljwright.co.uk
Bio
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at Stanford University and a Core Mentor at the NASA Frontier Development Lab. My research interests are in the application of machine learning in heliophysics and space science. Feel free to check out my current projects.
Before 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.
Google Cloud recently developed a website and produced videos on our work at the Frontier Development Lab (FDL). Click the image below to navigate to the Google microsite!
News
Publications
Complete list of publications on NASA ADS.
Guiding Heliophysics Toward an Enhanced Transdisciplinary Framework
Jenny L. Verniero, James Juno, V . M. Sadykov, Paul J. Wright, Sam J. Schonfeld, Ben L. Alterman
Heliophysics 2050 Workshop, 2020
Toward A Sustainable Software Development Model for Heliophysics
Will T. Barnes, James Juno, Jeffrey W. Reep, Jack Ireland, Paul J. Wright, Sarah A. Spitzer, B. L. Alterman, David Stansby, Emily Lichko
Heliophysics 2050 Workshop, 2020
Science Platforms for Heliophysics Data Analysis
Monica G. Bobra, Will T. Barnes, Mark C. M. Cheung, Laura A. Hayes, Jack Ireland, Miho Janvier, Michael Kirk, James P. Mason, Stuart J. Mumford, Paul J. Wright
Heliophysics 2050 Workshop, 2020
Single-Frame Super-Resolution of Solar Magnetograms: Investigating Physics-Based Metrics & Losses
Anna Jungbluth†, Xavier Gitiaux†, Shane Maloney†, Carl Shneider†, Paul J. Wright, Alfredo Kalaitzis, Michel Deudon, Atılım Güneş Baydin, Yarin Gal, Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo
In Second Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences (NeurIPS 2019), Vancouver, Canada
Probabilistic Super-Resolution of Solar Magnetograms: Generating Many Explanations and Measuring Uncertainties
Xavier Gitiaux†, Shane Maloney†, Anna Jungbluth†, Carl Shneider†, Paul J. Wright, Alfredo Kalaitzis, Michel Deudon, Atılım Güneş Baydin, Yarin Gal, Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo
In Fourth Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning (NeurIPS 2019), Vancouver, Canada
† Researchers at NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) 2019 (Mentored/Advised)
A Deep Learning Virtual Instrument for Monitoring Extreme UV Solar Spectral Irradiance
Alexandre Szenicer‡, David F. Fouhey, Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo, Paul J. Wright‡, Rajat Thomas‡, Richard Galvez‡, Meng Jin, Mark C. M. Cheung
Science Advances, 2019
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 C. M. Cheung, Rajat Thomas‡, Richard Galvez‡, Alexandre Szenicer‡, Meng Jin, Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo, David Fouhey
Helio-ML eBook, 2018
‡ Researchers at NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) 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
Résumé
One page résumé is available here.
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NASA Frontier Development Lab May '19 - nowCore Mentor / Team Lead
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 -
NASA Frontier Development Lab Jun - Aug '18Machine Learning Researcher (Intern)
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 (US GPA: 3.92/4.0)