My name is Georgios (George) Vassilakis, and I'm a fourth-year undergraduate at Northeastern University. I'm studying Applied Physics with a minor in Data Science and a concentration in Astrophysics.
- Lead developer of the SMPy project, which provides an accessible and modular Python toolkit for mapping dark matter distributions using weak gravitational lensing data from astronomical surveys.
- Contributing developer to the superbit-metacal analysis pipeline, which aims to measure galaxy shapes from NASA's SuperBIT Telescope observations.
- Developed Scientific Machine Learning pipelines (coupled Deep Operator Networks) to model the governing physics for solid-state batteries, as part of the Juner Zhu Group.
Publications | 
Google Scholar
Shear Mapping in Python (SMPy): Modular, Extensible, and Accessible Dark Matter Mapping.
Georgios N. Vassilakis, Jacqueline E. McCleary, Maya Amit, Sayan Saha.
2024, Journal of Open Source Software (in preparation).
Lensing in the Blue. II. Estimating the Sensitivity of Stratospheric Balloons to Weak Gravitational Lensing.
Jacqueline E. McCleary, Spencer W. Everett, Mohamed M. Shaaban, Ajay S. Gill, Georgios N. Vassilakis, Eric M. Huff, Richard J. Massey, et al.
2023, The Astronomical Journal, 166, 134.
Tutorial: Physics-Informed Machine Learning Methods of Computing 1D Phase-Field Models.
Wei Li, Ruqing Fang, Junning Jao, Georgios N. Vassilakis, Juner Zhu.
APL Machine Learning, 1 September 2024; 2 (3).
Data Downloaded via Parachute from a NASA Super-Pressure Balloon.
Ellen L. Sirks, Richard J. Massey, et al.
2023, Aerospace, 10(11):960.
SuperBIT Superpressure Flight Instrument Overview and Performance: Near-Diffraction Limited Astronomical Imaging From the Stratosphere.
Ajay S. Gill, et al.
2024, The Astronomical Journal, 168, 85.
To the stratosphere and beyond! Super-pressure balloon flight overview for the Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT).
Susan F. Redmond, et al.
2024, Proc. SPIE 13094, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X, 130942P.
From SuperBIT to GigaBIT: informing next-generation balloon-borne telescope design with fine guidance system flight data.
Philippe Voyer, et al.
2024, Proc. SPIE 13094, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X, 130944Z.
🏋️I'm a nationally qualified Olympic-style weightlifter for Northeastern University's Olympic Weightlifting Team!
🎸 I've played both electric and acoustic (Flamenco) guitar for nearly 10 years!