{"id":79,"date":"2022-03-14T05:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2023-02-14T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:10:10","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seti.ucla.edu\/jlm\">Professor Jean-Luc Margot<\/a> is a planetary astronomer affiliated with the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, and the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy. <\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1081\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/jlm_sun_square.jpg\" alt=\"Jean-Luc Margot\" class=\"wp-image-80 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/jlm_sun_square.jpg 1081w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/jlm_sun_square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/jlm_sun_square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/jlm_sun_square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/jlm_sun_square-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/jlm_sun_square-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Megan Li joined UCLA SETI in March 2022 to pursue a PhD in the field of SETI. She has a B.S. in Physics and Astrophysics from UCSD. She is passionate about education and public outreach and will play a leading a role in launching our citizen science platform and analyzing the science results.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/MeganLi_square-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/MeganLi_square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/MeganLi_square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/MeganLi_square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/MeganLi_square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/MeganLi_square-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/MeganLi_square-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/MeganLi_square-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dr. Paul Pinchuk took the UCLA SETI course in 2017 and decided to pursue a PhD in our group. He is one of only about a dozen earthlings to earn a PhD in SETI. He had a profound impact on the development of our pipeline and assisted with the UCLA SETI course from 2018 to 2021. He is now a Researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/PaulPinchuk_square.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/PaulPinchuk_square.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/PaulPinchuk_square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/PaulPinchuk_square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/PaulPinchuk_square-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dr. Adam Greenberg was a founding member of the UCLA SETI Group. He wrote key elements of our data-processing pipeline and was an informal teaching assistant for the UCLA SETI course in 2016 and 2017. He is now a Senior Systems Engineer at Raytheon.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/AdamGreenberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/AdamGreenberg.jpg 668w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/AdamGreenberg-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Robert Geil was a UCLA computer science student who took the UCLA SETI course in 2019 and served as informal teaching assistant for the course in 2020 and 2021. Robert helped speed up our data-processing pipeline with C code and CUDA code. Robert is now a Software Engineer at Belvedere Trading, LLC.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"277\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/RobertGeil.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-94 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/RobertGeil.jpeg 277w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/RobertGeil-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/RobertGeil-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jean-Luc Margot is a planetary astronomer affiliated with the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, and the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy. Megan Li joined UCLA SETI in March 2022 to pursue a PhD in the field of SETI. She has a B.S. in Physics and Astrophysics from UCSD. She is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.epss.ucla.edu\/seti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}