Andreas Wicenec

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Andreas Wicenec

Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1774-5653

  • The University of Western Australia (M468), 35 Stirling Highway,

    6009 Perth

    Australia

  • M468
    35 Stirling Highway
    Crawley

    Australia

Personal profile

Biography

Professor at the University of Western Australia since 2010, leading the Data Intensive Astronomy Program (DIA) of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) to research, design and implement Petabyte scale data flows and high performance scientific computing for the Square Kilometre Array, the Murchison Wide Field Array (MWA), the Australian SKA Pathfinder. During his graduate, post-graduate and post-doctoral appointments, he was involved in the software development and reduction of photometric and astrometric Tycho data from the ESA Hipparcos satellite. He joined the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in 1997 as an archive specialist and was involved in the final implementation of the archive for ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the ESO Imaging Survey. Between 2002 and 2010, he was employed as ESO's Archive Scientist and led the development group of the ALMA archive subsystem. Prof. Wicenec is also involved in the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). His scientific interests and publications include high precision global astrometry, optical background radiation, stellar photometry, dynamics and evolution of planetary nebulae and observational survey astronomy and the related data management, scheduling and computational concepts.

Roles and responsibilities

Director of the Data Intensive Astronomy Program at ICRAR

Future research

Design, architecture and implementation of the global SKA data layer.

Previous positions

European Southern Observatory: Archive Specialist and Science Archive Scientist
University of Tübingen: Research Assistant

Current projects

  • SKA Science Data Handling and Processing contributions. This is a software development contract with the Square Kilometre Array Observatory with a nominal value of up to 7 Million AUD extending through the SKA construction period.
  • The Data Activated Flow Graph Engine (DALiuGE, https://github.com/ICRAR/daliuge)
  • SKA observation adn processing scheduling
    Science reproducibility
  • NGAS, the Next Generation Archive System, a project which is supporting the data flows of some of the largest observatories in the world (https://github.com/ICRAR/ngas).
  • Australian SKA Pathfinder Data-intensive science reduction workflows.

Teaching overview

PhD and Masters Student supervision

Research

  • Efficient data archiving and data flow optimization.
  • Establishing data compression in radio astronomy.
  • High performance persistence systems.
  • Large scale astronomical survey systems.
  • NP-hard scheduling,
  • Reproducible science.
  • High precision astrometry and photometry and stellar dynamics.

Languages

German (mother tongue)
English
Spanish (basic)

Education/Academic qualification

Astronomy, PhD, Hochauflösende B- und V-Kartographie der galaktischen und des Zodiakalichtes mit Hilfe des Tycho Satellitenexperimentes., University of Tübingen

Award Date: 15 Jul 1994

Physics, Diploma, Simulation of high density star fields for the Tycho experiment, University of Tübingen

Award Date: 10 Oct 1989

Industry keywords

  • Space

Research expertise keywords

  • Petascale storage and computing
  • Astronomical data processing
  • Large scale data flow system design
  • Database systems
  • Astrometry
  • High performance computing

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  • ACM Gordon Bell Prize 2020 (Finalist)

    Wang, R. (Recipient), Tobar Carrizo, R. (Recipient), Dolensky, M. (Recipient), Tao, A. (Recipient), Wicenec, A. (Recipient), Wu, C. (Recipient), Dulwich, F. (Recipient), Podhorszki, N. (Recipient), Anantharaj, V. (Recipient), Suchyta, E. (Recipient), Lao, B. (Recipient) & Klasky, S. (Recipient), 20 Nov 2020

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