DMS Panel of the Users Committee (DPUC)

• DPUC Terms of Reference

Current Committee Membership

• Abhijeet Borkar (EU, 2022 - chair): Abhijeet Borkar is a research scientist at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, working at the Czech node of the European ALMA Regional Center. His research interests are studying the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies and their interaction with the host galaxy, particularly using radio interferometry techniques. Email: Abhijeet Borkar
• Jane Huang (NA, 2022): Jane is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University in New York. Her research focuses on characterizing the structure and chemistry of protoplanetary disks with ALMA. Jane is also active in addressing inequities in the public education system through her public outreach. Email: Jane Huang
• Adam Leroy (NA, 2021): Adam Leroy is an associate professor at Ohio State University. His research focuses on radio, millimeter, and infrared observations of galaxies and the interstellar medium using both spectral lines and continuum. He is a frequent user of both ALMA and the Very Large Array. Email: Adam Leroy
• Ruta Kale (IN, 2021): Ruta Kale is a staff member at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India. Her research focuses on non-thermal phenomena in clusters of galaxies and radio galaxies. She frequently uses the GMRT and the JVLA and has developed a CASA based pipeline for the Upgraded GMRT data reduction. Email: Ruta Kale
• Olga Bayandina (EU, 2021): Olga Bayandina is a staff members at the SKA Observatory as the SKA-Mid Operations Scientist in South Africa. She has been involved in testing the CASA fringe-fitting features for the VLBI data, as well as in developing a CASA calibration pipeline for the spectral line data of the European VLBI Network. Olga's research is focused on the VLA and VLBI studies of cosmic masers associated with star formation regions. Email: Olga Bayadina
• Kristina Nyland (NA, 2022): Kristina is a staff radio astronomer in the Remote Sensing Division at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. She uses radio telescopes and multi-wavelength data to study galaxy evolution, and the role that energetic feedback from massive black holes plays in this process. Email: Kristina Nyland
• Seokho Lee (EA, 2026): Seokho Lee is a staff scientist at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), the Korea node of the East Asian ALMA Regional Center (EA-ARC) in South Korea. His research focuses on ALMA observations toward low-mass star-forming regions. Email: Seokho Lee
• Toshiki Saito (EA, 2025): Toshiki is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Global Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation at Shizuoka University, Japan. He is an active researcher who is using ALMA to study gas and star formation in galaxies, and is a former member of EA-ARC. Email: Toshiki Saito
• Kuo-Song Wang (NA, 2025): Kuo-Song is a staff member at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) in Taiwan, where he is manager of the ASIAA CASA Development Center (ACDC), project scientist for the CARTA visualization software, and an ALMA Support Scientist. His research focuses on observations of star-forming regions. Email: Kuo-Song Wang
• Alex Akins (NA, 2025): Alex Akins is a research technologist in the Microwave Instrument Science group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. His research focuses on radio interferometric observations of the planets and their moons from meter- to millimeter-wavelengths. Email: Alex Akins

2025 DMS Panel of the Users Committee

• 2025 Virtual Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2025 DPUC Annual Report
• 2025 DPUC Annual Report Response

2024 DMS Panel of the Users Committee

• 2024 Virtual Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2024 DPUC Annual Report
• 2024 DPUC Annual Report Response

2022 CASA Users Committee

• 2022 CASA Users Committee Mid-year Telecon (slides)
• 2022 Virtual Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2022 CASA Users Committee Report
• 2022 CASA Users Committee Report Response

2021 CASA Users Committee

• 2021 CASA Users Committee Mid-year Telecon
• 2021 Virtual Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2021 CASA Users Committee Report
• 2021 CASA Users Committee Report Response

2020 CASA Users Committee

• 2020 CASA Mid-year Report to CUC
• 2020 Virtual Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2020 CASA Users Committee Report
• 2020 CASA Users Committee Report Response

2019 CASA Users Committee

• 2019 CASA Users Committee Mid-year Telecon
• Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2019 CASA Users Committee Report
• 2019 CASA Users Committee Report Response

2018 CASA Users Committee

• Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2018 CASA Users Committee Report
• 2018 CASA Users Committee Report Response

2017 CASA Users Committee

• Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2017 CASA Users Committee Report
• 2017 CASA Users Committee Report Response

2016 CASA Users Committee

• Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2016 CASA Users Committee Report
• 2016 CASA Project Response

2015 CASA Users Committee

• Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2015 CASA Users Committee Report
• 2015 CASA Response

2014 CASA User Committee

• Face to Face Meeting Page
• 2014 CASA Users Committee Report
• 2014 CASA Project Response

• 2019 CASA Users Committee Report Response: CUC_2019_Report_Response_v1.pdf

• 2019 CASA Users Committee Report Response: CUC_2019_Report_Response_v1.pdf