T. Lucas Makinen

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1003 Blackett Laboratory

Imperial College London

South Kensington SW7 2AZ

United Kingdom

Hi I’m Lucas. I’m a PhD student at Imperial College London studying cosmology, AI, and music. My research combines deep learning, statistics, and astrophysics to accelerate understanding of our universe’s origins.

Outside of science, I’m a jazz and classical trumpet player. As a result, I am also interested in the evolving intersection of AI-driven music generation, and its implications for musicians.

In my spare time I study languages – reach out to me in English, French, Finnish, or Italian.

latest posts

selected publications

2022

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    The Cosmic Graph: Optimal Information Extraction from Large-Scale Structure using Catalogues
    T. Lucas Makinen, Tom Charnock, Pablo Lemos, and 3 more authors
    The Open Journal of Astrophysics, Dec 2022

2021

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    Lossless, scalable implicit likelihood inference for cosmological fields
    T. Lucas Makinen, Tom Charnock, Justin Alsing, and 1 more author
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Nov 2021