Ioana Ciuca

Employment

• Australian National University ASTRO-3D Research Fellow
  2021 - Present
• University College London PhD Researcher
  2016 - 2020
• Stanford University Research Scientist

Education

• Durham University MPhys Physics with Astronomy
  2012 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (21)

• From Queries to Criteria: Understanding How Astronomers Evaluate LLMs
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15715 2025
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• ReplicationBench: Can AI Agents Replicate Astrophysics Research Papers?
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24591 2025
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• Supernova Event Dataset: Interpreting Large Language Models' Personality through Critical Event Analysis
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12189 2025
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• Galactic ChitChat: Using Large Language Models to Converse with Astronomy Literature
  Research Notes of the AAS 2023 DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/acf85f
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• Chasing the impact of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger on the formation of the Milky Way thick disc
  Ioana Ciucă, Daisuke Kawata, Yuan-Sen Ting +8 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 2023 DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slad033
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• AstroLLaMA: Towards Specialized Foundation Models in Astronomy
  2023 DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2309.06126
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• Harnessing the Power of Adversarial Prompting and Large Language Models for Robust Hypothesis Generation in Astronomy
  2023 DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2306.11648
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• The outer low-$α$ disc of the Milky Way -- I: evidence for the first pericentric passage of Sagittarius?
  2023 DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2305.07426
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• The GALAH survey: chemical clocks
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2787
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• Unsupervised Learning for Stellar Spectra with Deep Normalizing Flows
  2022 DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2207.02785
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• The GALAH Survey: chemical tagging and chrono-chemodynamics of accreted halo stars with GALAH+ DR3 and Gaia eDR3
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3504
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• Galactic bar resonances inferred from kinematically hot stars in Gaia EDR3
  Daisuke Kawata, Junichi Baba, John Douglas Hunt +5 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2582
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• The GALAH Survey: Chemical tagging and chrono-chemodynamics of accreted halo stars with GALAH+ DR3 and $Gaia$ eDR3
  2021
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• Unveiling the distinct formation pathways of the inner and outer discs of the Milky Way with Bayesian Machine Learning
  Ioana Ciucă, Daisuke Kawata, Andrea Miglio +2 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab639
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• Spectral and spatial analysis of the dark matter subhalo candidates among Fermi Large Area Telescope unidentified sources
  Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2019 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/11/045
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• A Gaia DR2 search for dwarf galaxies towards Fermi-LAT sources: implications for annihilating dark matter
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1994
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• Radial distribution of stellar motions in Gaia DR2
  Daisuke Kawata, Junichi Baba, Ioana Ciucă +4 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 2018 DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/sly107
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• The vertical metallicity gradients of mono-age stellar populations in the Milky Way with the RAVE and Gaia data
  Ioana Ciucă, Daisuke Kawata, Jane Lin +3 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3285
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• Confirming chemical clocks: asteroseismic age dissection of the Milky Way disk(s)
  V. Silva Aguirre, M. Bojsen-Hansen, D. Slumstrup +22 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty150
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• Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2464
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