Audrey Budlong (she/her)

Audrey is a physics PhD student at the University of Washington, Seattle. She works in software development and data science for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. Her primary work is on the development of a novel algorithm for crowded-field photometry and source detection within the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) data-processing framework. Additionally, as part of the Alert Production Team, she works with large, complex data sets from LSST to develop and implement software algorithms to correct for the differential chromatic refraction effect that occurs in data from all ground-based telescopes—providing the first image-based calibration technique tailored to observing conditions.