Lizhou Sha

Latest paper on arXiv

The Occurrence Rate of Nearby Planetary Companions to Hot Jupiters

I am an astronomer studying exoplanets and transient phenomena. I work as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, being a member of Professor Gáspár Bakos’s HATPI project team. I am also a volunteer instructor/tutor for Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative in my spare time.

I obtained my PhD in astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working with Professor Andrew Vanderburg. I graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 with an SB in physics. My first job after graduation was with NASA’s TESS space telescope, whose mission is to search most of the sky for nearby transiting exoplanets. Working with Dr. Chelsea X. Huang, I built, maintained, and executed one of the mission’s two planet detection pipelines.

I was a Software Engineering Intern at Google’s Kirkland, Wash. office in summer 2017. I developed integration tests for the infrastructure of Google Compute Engine as part of the Cloud EngProd team.