Connor Stone

Rubin Fellow at the University of Toronto. I work on supernova cosmology, astrostatistics, and open-source scientific software.

Comparison of PSF reconstruction showing a cutout of a bright point source and four recovery methods at 4x resolution as well as their residuals.

๐Ÿ“„ Pixellated Posterior Sampling of Point Spread Functions in Astronomical Images

A framework for fully probabilistic, pixel-level inference of the point spread function directly from astronomical images, enabling principled uncertainty quantification in downstream photometric analyses.

November 26, 2025 ยท Connor Stone
Example directed acyclic graph built with caskade.

๐Ÿ’ป caskade: Building Pythonic Scientific Simulators

caskade is a Python library for constructing modular, differentiable scientific simulators with automatic parameter tracking and Bayesian inference integration.

June 1, 2025 ยท Connor Stone
Example using the online caustics demo platform to distort the caustics logo.

๐Ÿ’ป Caustics: A Python Package for Accelerated Strong Gravitational Lensing Simulations

Caustics is a GPU-accelerated Python package for strong gravitational lensing forward modelling, enabling fast simulation and inference for large-scale lensing surveys.

June 22, 2024 ยท Connor Stone

๐Ÿ“ Simulation Based Inference

An introduction to likelihood-free inference: what it is, why youโ€™d use it, and how the four main approaches (NLE, NPE, NJE, NRE) work.

January 1, 2024 ยท Connor Stone

๐Ÿ“ World Coordinate Systems

How WCS works in astronomical images โ€” translating between pixel coordinates and sky coordinates.

September 1, 2023 ยท Connor Stone
A multi-band, multi-object fitting example with AstroPhot. Fitting seven bands from UV to IR, showing the data, model, and residuals.

๐Ÿ’ป AstroPhot: Fitting Everything Everywhere All at Once in Astronomical Images

AstroPhot is a Python package for simultaneous multi-band, multi-object photometric fitting of astronomical images using automatic differentiation and GPU acceleration.

August 3, 2023 ยท Connor Stone

๐Ÿ“ Bayesian Statistics Primer

An introduction to Bayesian thinking: priors, likelihoods, posteriors, and why it matters for science.

June 1, 2023 ยท Connor Stone

๐Ÿ“ Linear Regression Primer

A ground-up walkthrough of linear regression โ€” the math, the geometry, and the assumptions that matter.

January 1, 2023 ยท Connor Stone
Example surface brightness profile from the PROBES survey with marked radii at various locations.

๐Ÿ“„ PROBES-I: A Compendium of Deep Rotation Curves and Matched Multiband Photometry

PROBES-I presents a homogenised catalogue of 3163 deep optical rotation curves with matched multiband photometry for late-type galaxies, enabling precision tests of galaxy structure and dark matter models.

September 20, 2022 ยท Connor Stone
Example isophotal ellipse fit on a spiral galaxy using AutoProf.

๐Ÿ’ป AutoProf: An Automated Non-Parametric Light Profile Pipeline for Modern Galaxy Surveys

AutoProf is an automated pipeline for extracting non-parametric surface brightness profiles from galaxy images, designed to scale to the large datasets of modern wide-field surveys.

June 28, 2021 ยท Connor Stone