Gavin Wang
Undergraduate at JHU

Hello! I’m Gavin Wang, a junior Physics major at Johns Hopkins University. I’m broadly interested in exoplanets and research them with a variety of methods. My current projects include brown dwarf high-resolution spectroscopy with Jerry Xuan, direct imaging of potentially the coldest exoplanet with William Balmer, and testing planet formation models by measuring the properties of two planets in the youngest multi-transiting system. I am also developing statistical techniques with Dr. Néstor Espinoza to reduce 1/f noise in JWST’s near-IR detectors. In the upcoming summer, I’ll be working with Dr. Jessica Spake on atmospheric escape.

In the past, I searched for transit variability signatures using TESS under Dr. Espinoza’s mentorship, and recently completed a precise mass measurement of an evaporating hot Saturn with William Balmer. I was also an active member of the TESS Followup Observing Program in high school, where I helped discover and characterize a dozen exoplanets for the TESS mission.