Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. in Astrophysics — University of California, Berkeley (expected 2026)
  • M.A. in Astrophysics — University of California, Berkeley (2022)
  • B.S. in Physics, Magna Cum Laude — University of Maryland, College Park (2020)
  • B.S. in Astronomy with High Honors, Magna Cum Laude — University of Maryland, College Park (2020)

Research Appointments

  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow — Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley (2020 - )
  • Graduate Student Researcher — Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley (2020 - )
  • Undergraduate Student Researcher — Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park (2017 - 2020)
  • NSF REU Fellow — Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (2019)
  • Undergraduate Student Researcher — Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2018)
  • Undergraduate Student Researcher — Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago (2017)

Refereed Publications

First Author / Contributor

  1. Harada, C.K., Dressing, C.D., Kane, S.R., Blunt, S., Dietrich, J., Hinkel, N.R., Li, Z., Mamajek, E., Rice, M., Tuchow, N.W., Turtelboom, E.V. and Wittenmyer, R.A. 2024 Submitted to AAS Journals. "SPORES-HWO. II. Limits on Planetary Companions of Future High-contrast Imaging Targets from >20 Years of HIRES and HARPS Radial Velocities"
  2. Harada, C.K., Dressing, C.D., Kane, S.R. and Adami Ardestani, B. 2024 ApJS 272 30. "Setting the Stage for the Search for Life with the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Properties of 164 Promising Planet Survey Targets"
  3. Desai, A., Turtelboom, E. V., Harada, C.K. et al. 2024 AJ 167 194. "The TESS-Keck Survey. XVIII. A Sub-Neptune and Spurious Long-period Signal in the TOI-1751 System"
  4. Harada, C.K., Dressing, C.D., Alam, M.K. et al. 2023 AJ 166 208. "Stability and Detectability of Exomoons Orbiting HIP 41378 f, a Temperate Jovian Planet with an Anomalously Low Apparent Density"
  5. Duck, A., Harada, C.K., Harrell, J., Morris, R.A., Williams, E., Crossfield, I., Werner, M. and Deming, D. 2021 AJ 162 136. "K2, Spitzer, and TESS Transits of Four Sub-Neptune Exoplanets"
  6. Harada, C.K., M.-R. Kempton, E., Rauscher, E., Roman, M., Malsky, I., Brinjikji, M. and DiTomasso, V. 2021 ApJ 909 85. "Signatures of Clouds in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Modeled High-resolution Emission Spectra from 3D General Circulation Models"

Collaborator

  1. Dressing, C.D., Savel, A.B., Giacalone, S. et al. (including Harada, C.K.) 2024 Submitted to AAS Journals. "Searching for Additional Planets in TESS Multi-Planet Systems: Testing Empirical Models Based on Kepler Data" "
  2. Turtelboom, E.V., Dietrich, J., Dressing, C.D. and Harada, C.K. 2024 Submitted to AAS Journals. "Searching for Additional Planets in TESS Multi-Planet Systems: Testing Empirical Models Based on Kepler Data" "
  3. Kane, S.R., Li, Z., Turnbull, M.C., Dressing, C.D. and Harada, C.K. 2024 AJ 168 195. "Dynamical Viability Assessment for Habitable Worlds Observatory Targets"
  4. Turtelboom, E.V., Weiss, L.M., Dressing, C.D. et al. (including Harada, C.K.) 2022 AJ 163 293. "The TESS-Keck Survey. XI. Mass Measurements for Four Transiting Sub-Neptunes Orbiting K Dwarf TOI-1246"
  5. Malsky, I., Rauscher, E., M.-R. Kempton, E., Roman, M., Long, D. and Harada, C.K. 2021 ApJ 923 62. "Modeling the High-resolution Emission Spectra of Clear and Cloudy Nontransiting Hot Jupiters"
  6. Roman, M.T., M.-R.Kempton, E., Rauscher, E., Harada, C.K., Bean, J.L. and Stevenson, K.B. 2021 ApJ 908 101. "Clouds in Three-dimensional Models of Hot Jupiters Over a Wide Range of Temperatures. I. Thermal Structures and Broadband Phase-curve Predictions"
  7. Vissapragada, S., Knutson, H.A., Jovanovic, et al. (including Harada, C.K.) 2020 AJ 159 278. "Constraints on Metastable Helium in the Atmospheres of WASP-69b and WASP-52b with Ultra-narrowband Photometry"
  8. Collins, K.A., Collins, K.I., Pepper, J. et al. (including Harada, C.K.) 2018 AJ 156 234. "The KELT Follow-up Network and Transit False-positive Catalog: Pre-vetted False Positives for TESS"