Jaehyon Rhee (Jay)

이 재 현

jrhee @ cfa.harvard.edu

In the beginning God created... (Genesis 1:1)

ABOUT

My name is Jay, 이 재 현, and I'm an observational astrophysicist working at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). My research focuses on stellar abundance analysis, old stellar clusters and populations in the Milky Way Galaxy, Galactic structure, and astrostatistics. As a data archive scientist in the SAO Telescope Data Center, I routinely inspect, process, distribute, and archive the science data taken with the CfA ground-based optical & near-infrared telescopes, and make the reduced data available to the public. I have about ten years experience in teaching and developing physics, astronomy, and data science courses (in both traditional and online formats) at the college and graduate school level.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Astrophysics & Astronomy
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

1996–2000

M.S., Physics
Yonsei University, Seoul, S. Korea

1991–1993

B.S., Physics
Yonsei University, Seoul, S. Korea

1987–1991

Professional Graduate Certificate, Data Science
Harvard Extension School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2013–2017

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Data Archive Scientist
SAO Telescope Data Center, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA

2015/01–Present

Adjunct Professor (겸임교수)
Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul, S. Korea

2022/03–Present

Lecturer
Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2020/01–Present

Instructor
Harvard Summer School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Summer 2019 & 2020

Instructor & Graduate Faculty
Department of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

2013/09–2015/12

Assistant Scientist
Gemini Observatory, Hilo, HI

2011/03–2013/09

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

2006–2011

Research Professor, after Senior Research Scientist
Joint Position for NASA's GALEX Mission at
Center for Space Astrophysics, Yonsei University, Seoul, S.Korea &
Space Astrophysics Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (stationed)

2003–2006

Research Associate (Post-Doc)
Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

2000–2003

Full-time Instructor (전임강사)
Department of Physics, Korea Air Force Academy, Chungbuk, S. Korea

1993–1996

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Sample Student Evaluations @ Oregon State University
PH 205, PH 206, PH 207 (online)
PH 213 (traditional)

Curriculum Development @ Oregon State University
Online course development for three courses (accepted and funded)

Harvard University
ASTRON 308: Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning for
Astronomy
CSCI S-96: Data Mining for Business

2019–Present

Yonsei University, Seoul, S. Korea
PHYS 7080: Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Physics and
Astronomy

2022–Present

Oregon State University
PH 205: Solar System Astronomy
PH 206: Stars and Stellar Evolution
PH 207: Galaxies, Quasars, & Cosmology
PH 203: General Physics
PH 213: General Physics with Calculus

2013–2015

Purdue University, West Lafayette
ASTR 263: Descriptive Astronomy: The Solar System
PHYS 149: Mechanics, Heat, and Wave Motion
PHYS 521: Survey of Classical Physics

2006–2011

Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)
AST A100: The Solar System

Fall 2006

Korea Air Force Academy
General Physics
Experimental Optics

1993–1996

CONTACT

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
60 Garden St MS 09
Cambridge, MA 02138-1516, U.S.A.

E-mail: jrhee @ cfa.harvard.edu
Telephone: +1 (617) 495-7896
Fax: +1 (617) 495-7467