Gavin Wang
Astronomy PhD Student at Caltech

Hello! I’m Gavin Wang and I’m interested in the characterization of exoplanets and their atmospheres. My current projects include spectroscopy of transiting planets with Jessica Spake and directly imaged brown dwarfs with Jerry Xuan and William Balmer. I am also developing likelihood-based techniques with Néstor Espinoza to reduce 1/f noise in JWST’s near-IR detectors, and applying our technique to the NIRSpec phase curve of the lava world K2-141 b.

In the past, I searched for transit variability signatures using TESS under Dr. Espinoza’s mentorship, and completed a precise mass measurement of HAT-P-67 b, the largest known exoplanet, with Dr. Balmer. I was also an active member of the TESS Followup Observing Program, where I helped discover and characterize a dozen exoplanets for the TESS mission.