I am a graduate student at Columbia University in the Department of Astronomy. I received my bachelor’s from the University of British Columbia in Physics & Astronomy, after which I worked as a Data Analytics Consultant at Ernst & Young. I am currently a NSERC PGS-D fellow.

Research Interests

My research interests are primarily in stellar astrophysics. Broadly, I’m interested in studying stellar populations, discovering exoplanets, and understanding the formation and evolution of the Milky Way (read more about my research). My current project involves using spectroscopic data from GALAH to investigate the lithium content in red giants. In the past, I’ve worked on asteroseismology - the study of stellar oscillations - where I’ve created a homogeneous catalog of asteroseismic detections in Kepler short-cadence data. I’m the lead developer of The Swan, a data-driven technique to predict stellar surface gravities, and contributor of pySYD, an open-source Python package to measure global asteroseismic parameters.

Contact Me

Email: maryum.sayeed@columbia.edu
Office: Pupin Hall, 538 West 120th Street, New York, NY