Upcoming Talks

22 July 2026 - Oral, Project MOON: Scalable Open-Data Framework for Autonomous Multi-Sensor Detection of Artemis Launch Signatures. NASA Exploration Science Forum (NESF) 2026, NASA Ames Research Center (SSERVI), USA. Session: Parallel 2 - Applications of AI/ML in Space and Planetary Science.

22 July 2026 - Oral, Tracking the Artemis II Mission Using Open Science. Canadian Space Agency (presented virtually from NESF 2026, NASA Ames), Canada.

27-31 July 2026 - Oral, An Automated Three-Method Asteroid Rotation-Period Pipeline for Rubin First Look Data. Rubin Community Workshop 2026, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, USA.

▶ Featured

• Photometric Characterization of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22: Rotation Period, Shape, and Taxonomy. Oral Talk, 32nd Young Scientists’ Conference on Astronomy & Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine (Apr 2026)
• Determining the Rotation Period and Color Indices of Newly Discovered Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22. Oral Talk, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, Canada (Jan 2026)
• Citizen Science Approaches to Planetary Defense and Exoplanet Characterization. Oral Talk, Foresight Seminar, San Francisco, USA (Oct 2025)
• Extending Exoplanet Ephemerides through TTV Analysis Using NEPTUNE and Ground-Based Observations. Oral Talk, 5th Ariel/ExoClock Annual Meeting, Madrid, Spain (Oct 2025)
• How I Built My Remote Observatory for Planetary Defense and Exoplanet Research. Oral Talk, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, Canada (Sep 2025)
• Constraining Non-Transiting Exoplanet Parameters Using ML and MCMC-Driven N-Body Simulations. Oral Talk, Young Scientists’ Conference on Astronomy & Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine (Apr 2025)
• PhAst: Accelerated Characterization of Asteroids Through Novel Integration of Dense and Sparse Photometry. Poster, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA (Dec 2024)
• Training Machine Learning Models on N-Body Simulations to Analyze Transit Timing Variations. Oral Talk, 4th Ariel/ExoClock Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal (Oct 2024)
• Accelerated Asteroid Characterization Using PhAst. Oral Talk, LSST/Rubin Community Workshop, Menlo Park, USA (Jul 2024)
• Algorithms to Determine Asteroid Physical Properties Using Sparse and Dense Photometry. Poster, SciPy Conference, Tacoma, USA (Jul 2024)
• PhAst: Accelerated Asteroid Characterization for Planetary Defense Applications. Oral Talk, AIAA LA Planetary Defense & Asteroid Exploration Conference, USA (Jun 2024)
• Open Science for Planetary Defense: From NASA SpaceApps to Measuring the DART Mission Impact. Oral Talk, AGU Fall Meeting (Dec 2023)
• Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid Physical Properties and the Success of the NASA DART Deflection Mission. Oral Talk, AAVSO Annual Meeting
• Photometry Algorithms: From Asteroid Characterization to Exoplanetary Systems. Oral Talk, 3rd ExoClock Annual Meeting (Oct 2023)

2026

• 27-31 July 2026. Oral Talk, An Automated Three-Method Asteroid Rotation-Period Pipeline for Rubin First Look Data. Rubin Community Workshop 2026, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, USA.
• Upcoming · 22 July 2026. Oral Talk, Project MOON: Scalable Open-Data Framework for Autonomous Multi-Sensor Detection of Artemis Launch Signatures. NASA Exploration Science Forum (NESF) 2026, NASA Ames Research Center (SSERVI), USA. Session: Parallel 2 - Applications of AI/ML in Space and Planetary Science.
• 22 July 2026. Oral Talk, Tracking the Artemis II Mission Using Open Science. Canadian Space Agency (presented virtually from NESF 2026, NASA Ames), Canada.
• 8 July 2026. Oral Talk, It’s Rocket Science! Tracking the ARTEMIS II Mission using Open Science. RASC Toronto Recreational Astronomy Night, York University, Toronto, Canada. Recording: my talk begins at 1:16:50.
• 24 April 2026. Oral Talk, Photometric Characterization of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22: Rotation Period, Shape, and Taxonomy. 32nd Young Scientists’ Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (online), Ukraine.
• 7 January 2026. Oral Talk, Determining the Rotation Period and Color Indices of Newly Discovered Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Monthly Meeting. Toronto, Canada.

2025

• 17 October 2025. Oral Talk, Citizen science approach to planetary defense and exoplanet characterization. Foresight Seminar 2025. San Francisco, USA.
• 4 October 2025. Oral Talk, Extending exoplanet ephemerides through TTV analysis with NEPTUNE and ground-based observations. 5th ExoClock Annual Meeting. Madrid, Spain.
• 3 September 2025. Oral Talk, How I Built My Remote Observatory for Planetary Defense and Exoplanet Research. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Monthly Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
• 21 July 2025. Poster, NEPTUNE: N-body Exoplanet Prediction Using TTV for Unseen Exoplanets. 2025 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop. Pasadena, USA.
• 9 April 2025. Oral Talk, Constraining mass, orbital period, and eccentricity of non-transiting exoplanets using machine learning and MCMC-driven N-body simulations. 31st Young Scientists’ Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics. Kyiv, Ukraine.
• 5 February 2025. Oral Talk, Constraining Exoplanet Mass, Orbital Period, and Eccentricity from Transit Timing Variations Using N-Body Simulations. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Monthly Meeting. Toronto, Canada.

2024

• 13 December 2024. Poster Presentation, PhAst: Accelerated Characterization of Asteroids in Inner and Outer Solar System through Novel Integration of Dense and Sparse Photometry. AGU Fall Meeting. Hybrid/Washington, D.C., United States.
• 11 December 2024. Oral Talk, Masason End of Year Party. Advancing Planetary Defense and Exoplanet Discovery. Tokyo, Japan.
• 4 December 2024. Oral Talk, Analyzing Transit Timing Variations in Multiplanetary Systems with N-Body Simulations. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Monthly Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
• 27 October 2024. Oral Talk, Training ML Models on N-Body Simulations to Analyze TTVs. 4th ExoClock Annual Meeting. Hybrid/Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
• 24 July 2024. Poster Presentation, Accelerated Asteroid Characterization Using PhAst. NASA Exploration Science Forum. Hybrid/Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
• 23 July 2024. Oral Talk, Accelerated Asteroid Characterization Using PhAst. (Abstract). Rubin Community Workshop - Solar System Science. Hybrid/Menlo Park, California, USA.
• 8 July 2024. Poster Presentation, Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties using Sparse and Dense Photometry, Robotic Telescopes and Open Data. 23rd annual SciPy conference. Hybrid/Tacoma Convention Center, Tacoma, Washington State, USA
• 29 June 2024. Oral Talk, PhAst: Accelerated Asteroid Characterization through Novel Photometric Integration Using Ground and Space-Based Sky Surveys. AIAA LA Planetary Defense and Asteroid Exploration mini-Conference 2024. Hybrid/California, USA.
• 6 March 2024. Oral Talk, Integrating Sparse and Dense Photometry Methods for Improved Asteroid Property. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Monthly Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
• 26 January 2024. Poster Presentation, Determining the Physical Properties of Asteroids. Canadian Space Conference. Toronto, Canada.

2023

• 13 December 2023. Open Science for Planetary Defense: From Winning NASA SpaceApps to Developing Algorithms to Measure the Success of NASA DART Mission. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2023 Fall Meeting.
• 6 December 2023. Open-source Photometry Algorithms. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Monthly Meeting.
• 5 November 2023. Developing Algorithms to Determine an Asteroid's Physical Properties and the Success of the NASA DART Asteroid Deflection Mission. The AAVSO 112th Annual Meeting.
• 21-22 October 2023. Photometry Algorithms: From Determining Physical Properties of Asteroids to Exoplanetary Systems. 3rd ExoClock Annual Meeting.
• 27 September 2023. Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids and Measure the Success of the NASA DART Deflection Mission. Canadian Space Agency.
• 21 September 2023. Spectroscopic Measurements through Citizen Science. North York Astronomical Association (NYAA) Monthly Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
• 11 September 2023. Poster, Improving Transit Ephemerides. The First Year of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Science Conference.
• 25 August 2023. Planetary Defense by Citizen Scientists: Measuring Impact of the NASA DART Asteroid Deflection Mission Using Open Science and Robotic Telescopes. Global Hands-on Universe Conference. Session 11. event detailsevent details (Video at 40.15)
• 20 July 2023. Planetary Defense using Python: Measuring Impact of the NASA DART Mission on Didymos Binary Asteroid System Using Open Science. NASA Exploration Science Forum. The Hotel, University of Maryland, USA.
• 10 July 2023. Planetary Defense Using Python: Measuring Deflection of the Didymos Binary Asteroid System by the NASA DART Mission. SciPy Conference. 2023.
• 29 June 2023. Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and the Success of Deflection Missions. Asteroid Day Ask An Astronomer - H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.
• 16 June 2023. Founder of MonitorMyPlanet.com discusses her remarks at WH's OSTP Listening session on Open Science. SAi Television Network
• 7 June 2023. DART Mission: Did we move asteroid Dimorphos? and Briefings from the Planetary Defense Conference 2023. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Monthly Meeting.
• 4 April 2023. Developing Algorithms for Characterisation of Near Earth Asteroids and Measuring the Impact of the DART Mission.Eighth Planetary Defense Conference 2023.
• 15 March 2023. Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids using Robotic Telescopes and Applying them to Measure the Impact of NASA’s DART Asteroid Deflection Mission. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) 2023.
• 14 January 2023. BrainHack: Neurons and Open Source Biosignals. Oral Talk. Global Innovation Field Trip (GIFT).

2022

• 6 December 2022. Science Fair Advice from Gold Medal Winners. Panel Discussion. Toronto Science Fair (TSF).
• 2 December 2022. Strengthening Planetary Defense: Detecting Unknown Asteroids using Open Data, Math, and Python, Interview. Youth Science Canada.
• 25 November 2022. Asteroid Science With Remote Telescopes. (Presentation). Workshop. iTelescope.net
• 19 November 2022. World Learning through the Global Innovation Field Trip. Keynote. The Global Learning for an Open World (GLOW) Conference
• 5 November 2022. Strengthening Planetary Defense: Detecting Unknown Asteroids using Open Data, Math, and Python. Oral Talk. International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE).
• 4- 7 November 2022. Do it yourself Asteroid Astrometry using Python. Poster (with oral presentation). AAVSO 111th Annual Meeting.
• 2 November 2022. Photometric observations of Didymos asteroid system after the impact: Using robotic telescopes, open datasets, and maths. Oral Talk. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto. Canada.
• 16 October 2022. Observing Asteroid Didymos to Support DART Mission. Oral Talk. Global Innovation Field Trip (GIFT).
• 5 October 2022. Photometric observations of Didymos asteroid system before the impact: Using robotic telescopes, open datasets, and maths. Oral Talk. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto.Canada.
• 1 October 2022. Hack your Creativity using Hardware, Software, Coding, Science, Music and Art. Oral Talk. NASA YouthSpaceApps 2022. The University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada.
• 26 June 2022. Planetary Defense by Youth Scientists. Invited Talk. 2022 General Assembly. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Toronto, Canada.

2021

• 26 June 2021. STEM K-12 Game development. Planetary Defense Workshop (Hands-on Team Exercises) with Asteroid Exploration Updates. American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Los Angeles. event details
• 2 June 2021. Simulation of Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario – Learnings from the 2021 Planetary Defense Conference. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC). Recreational Astronomy Night Meeting, Toronto. event details
• 30 April 2021. Aiming for Apophis- How we used COVID-19 school lockdown as an opportunity to do asteroid astrometry and teach others. 7th IAA PDC Conference 2021. Hosted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. Vienna. Austria. event details
• 14 February 2021. The Masked Scales: How to merge science with arts?. The Connecticut Robotics Society Monthly Meeting. event details
• 3 February 2021. Do it yourself Asteroid Astrometry using Python. The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC). Recreational Astronomy Night Meeting. event details
• 16 January 2021. The Masked Scales. Global Innovation Field Trip (GIFT) event detailslink

2020

• 2 December 2020. Machine learning and Music, Digital Making at Home, Raspberry Pi Foundation. raspberrypi.org
• 27 October 2020. Panelist. Generation Now Panel, Our Future, Our Voices Summit. International Youth Foundation. event details
• 25 October 2020. How is NASA Data Helping Kids in Canada fight Climate Change. Our Future, Our Voices Summit. International Youth Foundation. event details
• 10 October 2020. Directional Dragonfly Drone with OpenCV and Python. Global Innovation Field Trip (GIFT). event details
• 9 October 2020. Talk on “Masked Scales: Sonifying the Impacts of COVID19 lockdown into a Musical”. Acoustics Week Canada 2020. Canadian Acoustical Association. event details
• 23 September 2020. The Masked Scales: Global Winner 2020 NASA SpaceApps COVID-19 Challenge. Hack Club Show and Tell with Adafruit. https://youtu.be/aRzoo11jABo?t=924
• 16 September 2020. How I travelled around the Universe for 6 years to complete my RASC Explore the Universe Certificate. RASC Monthly Recreational Astronomy Night Meeting. event details
• 31 July 2020. Panelist Degrees of Success. Lotus STEMM. event details
• 9 July 2020. The Dragonfly Drone: Merging Biology, Neurons and Logic Gates. The Global Innovation Field Trip. event details
• 23 May 2020. Make an Astronaut Smile (MARS) Robot: Live Demo and Making. MakerFaire 2020. event details
• 17 May 2020. Online Workshop for School Kids on Building Rovers, Robots, and Rockets. STEM Labs Club. Canada. https://stemlabs.ca/robotics-workshop/
• 11-13 May 2020. Demonstrating Human-Robot, Robot-Robot Interaction (English and French). Pint of Science Virtual Festival, Canada. event details
• 19 January 2020. Using Artificial Intelligence in Space Exploration. 2020 Innovation Nation Conference. Hamilton, Ontario. event detailslink

2019

• 28 September 2019. “Artificial Intelligence and Human Interaction“. Google DevFest 2019. George Brown College, Toronto. event details
• 21 September 2019. “Youth Voices in Science and Innovation”. Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC). Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Toronto. event details
• 7 June 2019. How to get started in making STEM Projects using your Interest and Imagination. STEM Showcase 2019 hosted by CCMA.Ontario Science Centre. event details
• 24 May 2019. 5 Steps to Hack your Curiosity: Learn Anything, Learn Everything: 2019 Toronto Tech Summit. MaRS Discovery District event details
• 27 April 2019. NextGen Creative Growth: Raising Creators, Not Consumers. 2019 digiFest, Toronto. https://hotpoprobot.com/2019/04/26/digifest-2019-talk-on-nextgen-creative-growth-exhibits/
• 24 January 2019. Guest Speech at Ontario Science Centre 50 Years Celebration: Daring to Dream Big. Toronto. https://hotpoprobot.com/2019/01/24/guest-speech-ontario-science-centre-50-years-celebration-daring-to-dream-big/
• 20 January 2019. How can the NextGen Hack Space Exploration? Guest Speech at 2019 Innovation Nation Conference. Hamilton. https://hotpoprobot.com/2019/01/24/how-can-the-nextgen-hack-space-exploration/
• 14 January 2019. Breakfast TV Toronto: Conversation on Space. hotpoprobot.com See Video: bttoronto.ca (video)

2018

• 7 November 2018. Deep Space Musical: Transforming iconic Hubble Telescope images into music to create a musical of the Universe. Ontario Science Centre. Organised by RASC Toronto Centre, Toronto. https://hotpoprobot.com/2018/11/09/performance-deep-space-musical-rasc-toronto-ontario-science-centre/
• 18 July 2018. Modeling the Deep Space Network: From Earth to Outer Space. Ontario Science Centre. Organised by RASC Toronto Centre, Toronto. Video: https://www.rascto.ca/content/video-modeling-deep-space-network-earth-outer-space
• 7 July 2018. TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanetary System Model. Annual Awards Day. Carr Astronomical Observatory, Collingwood. Ontario. https://www.rascto.ca/content/video-trappist-1-exo-planetary-system
• 9 June 2018. AI Exhibitor, FITC Future World Conference, Toronto
• 3 June 2018. How to build up maker spaces and undertake making-activities with children at home. MakerExpo, Kitchener, Ontario (http://www.makerexpo.ca/2018/05/speaker-series-presents-the-nath-family-a-maker-family-journey/)
• 2 June 2018. Space, Robotics, and Music: Every child is a creator! MakerExpo, Kitchener, Ontario (http://www.makerexpo.ca/2018/05/speaker-series-presents-the-nath-kids-every-child-is-a-creator/)
• 6 March 2018. Asteroids, Music, and Code. Hack n Tell, Top Hat, Toronto (See https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Hack-and-Tell/events/247313314/)
• 18 February 2018. Guest Speaker. Inaugural Women’s Conference for Planetary Scientists and Beyond. The University of Toronto, Toronto. (https://hotpoprobot.com/2018/02/20/guest-speaker-women-in-planetary-science-and-exploration-wpse-toronto/)
• 11 February 2018. Featured Speaker: International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The Ontario Science Centre, Toronto. (See https://rascto.ca/content/osc-international-day-women-and-girls-science)

2017

• 11 October 2017. “Yes I Can” and Canadian Space Agency Visit. Ontario Science Centre. Organised by RASC Toronto Centre, Toronto. (See video: https://www.rascto.ca/content/video-drop-drought-yes-i-can-and-canadian-space-agency-visit)
• 25 August 2017. Do It Yourself Astronomy Workshop. MindCamp, YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario (See https://www.instagram.com/p/BYKB1CejrvA/)
• 4 July 2017. Yes I Can / Oui Je Peux (Canadian SpaceApps 2017 Winning Presentation). The Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Quebec.(See: https://hotpoprobot.com/2017/08/02/visit-to-the-canadian-space-agency-2/)