Curriculum Vitae

• Yale University Aug. 2016 - Jun. 2021
  Ph.D. Astronomy
  Dissertation: The Path to Extreme Precision Radial Velocity With EXPRES
• University of Chicago Oct. 2012 - Jun. 2016
  B.A. Biological Sciences, B.A. Physics, B.S. Mathematics

A full list of publications can be found on Google Scholar

1. Zhao, L.L., Hogg, D.W., Bedell, M., Luger, R. "Capturing Stellar Surface Variations at the Spectral Level" in prep.
2. Zhao, L.L., Dumusque, X., Ford, E., et al. "Comparison of Solar Data from HARPS, HARPS-N, EXPRES, and NEID" accepted
3. Zhao, L.L., Kunovac-Hodzic, V., Brewer, J.M., et al. "Measured Spin-Orbit Alignment of Ultra-Short Period Super-Earth 55~Cnc~e" 2023, Nature Astronomy, 7, 198
4. Zhao, L.L., Fischer, D.A., Henry, G.W., et al. "The EXPRES Stellar-Signals Project II. State of the Field of Disentangling Photospheric Velocities" 2022, AJ, 163, 171
5. Zhao, L.L., Hogg, D.W., Bedell, M., Fischer, D.A. "Excalibur: A Non-Parametric, Hierarchical Wavelength-Calibration Method for a Precision Spectrograph" 2021, AJ, 161, 80
6. Zhao, L.L., Fischer, D.A., Ford, E., Henry, G.W., Rottenbacher, R.M., Brewer, J.M. "The EXPRES Stellar-Signals Project I. Description of Data" 2020, RNAAS, 4, 156
7. Petersburg, R.R., Ong, J.M.J., Zhao, L.L., et al. "An Extreme-Precision Radial-Velocity Pipeline: First Radial Velocities from EXPRES" 2020, AJ, 159, 187 (Contributions were equally split among the first three authors)
8. Zhao, L.L., Fischer, D., Brewer, J., Giguere, M., \& Rojas-Ayala, B. "Planet Detectability in the Alpha Centauri System" 2018, AJ, 155, 24

• Third Place, Three Minute Thesis Competition, Yale University 2020
• Sheldon Wise Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Yale University 2018
• Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation 2016
• Google Earth Engine Scholarship, Google 2015