Ke Fang

Ke Fang is an Assistant Professor and Bernice Durand Faculty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Department of Physics, affiliated with the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC). Her research focuses on multi-messenger astrophysics, analyzing data from HAWC, IceCube, and Fermi-LAT to study cosmic particles like high-energy neutrinos, gamma rays, and cosmic rays.

Education and Background: Ke Fang received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2015. Prior to UW-Madison, she held positions at Stanford University (NASA Einstein Fellow, 2018–2020) and the University of Maryland/NASA-Goddard (Joint Space-Science Institute Fellow, 2015–2018).

Research Interests: Her work includes theoretical and observational studies of astroparticle sources using numerical simulations, with emphases on pulsar halos, microquasars, and supernova remnants. Recent highlights include HAWC's detection of TeV halos around middle-aged pulsars and gamma-ray emission from SS 433.

Awards: She has received the Sloan Research Fellowship (2024), NSF CAREER Award (2023), Shakti P. Duggal Award (2021), and NASA Einstein Fellowship (2018–2020).

Labs/Teams: She leads the Ke Fang Group, comprising postdocs (e.g., Sara Coutino), graduate students (David Guevel, Angelina Partenheimer, Hongyi Wu), and undergraduate researchers (Zhuoyang Zhou).