Informatics and Statistics Science Collaboration (ISSC) of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)

Welcome to the web site for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Informatics and Statistics Science Collaboration (ISSC).

The ISSC consists of over 100 data scientists devoted to developing tools for use with large astronomical surveys. Our team includes astronomers, statisticians, computer scientists, and machine learning researchers, with a shared objective of addressing the inference challenges facing LSST as it works to meet its scientific goals.

The ISSC is led by two co-chairs (Tom Loredo, Francois Lanusse) and a core team consisting of the following members:

Jogesh Babu
Tamas Budavari
Eric Feigelson
Tom Loredo
Chad Schafer
Sam Schmidt
Robert Wolpert