Chase (政生) Urasaki

About Me

I am currently a first-year Astronomy Ph.D. student at the University of Hawai'i Institute for Astronomy with an interest in exoplanets and instrumentation.

Before moving onto my Ph.D., I was an Electrical Engineering Master's Student in the Robotic Space Exploration (RoSE) Lab headed by Dr. Frankie Zhu at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

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Education

M.S. Electrical Engineering (2021 - 2024)

College of Engineering, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI

B.S. Astrophysics & B.S. Mathematics(2015 - 2019)

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI

Research

Research Interests

My research interests lie at the intersection of astronomy and electrical engineering.

Current Projects

Atmospheric Escapes in Young Planets

Young, close-in exoplanets are subject to photo-evaporation of their primordial helium atmospheres. This is likely the cause of the so-called "Fulton Gap" that is present in the radius distribution of small planets.

Machine Learning Classifier for Pan-STARRS Asteroid Detection

Starting as a class project for a graduate machine learning course taught by Dr. Prasad Santhanam (ECE), I am working with Dr. Richard Wainscoat and Dr. Mark Huber (IfA) on developing a Machine Learning model to disambiguate fast-moving asteroids (shown as streaks) from image artifacts with high probability. More details to come!

Nano-Spectrometer

I am working with Dr. Paul Lucey on a tiny, commercial-off-the-shelf component, no-moving parts Fourier Transform Spectrometer. The appeal of this would be for future small SWaP remote sensing missions either in space or here on Earth.

Past Projects

Optical Jitter Metrology for CubeSats

For my Master's Thesis work, I worked on developing, characterizing, and testing an optical metrology system for jitter. The data and code are all available here, as well as a manuscript of my thesis, and a link to the defense talk.

Characterizing the comet C/2014 S2 (Pan-STARRS)

While completing my pre-requisites for the M.S. in E.E. degree in the Fall of 2021, I worked with Dr. Karen Meech on characterizing the long-period comet C/2014 S2.

Projects

A collection of coding projects that were developed as part of research that can stand a la carte, or made for fun.

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When, I'm not doing astronomy, I love taking photos - check out some of my favorites below!

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Contact

Please do not hesitate to send me an email with any questions you may have about my research, experiences as a student, projects, or really anything on this site!

E-MAIL: chasemu [at] hawaii [dot] edu

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