Shirley Ho is an American astrophysicist and machine learning expert, currently Group Leader at Simons Foundation and a Professor at New York University, with a visiting appointment at Princeton University.

Shirley Ho has led the first application of deep 3D convolutional neural networks in astrophysics and has since pushed forward the adoption of modern deep learning methods in the astrophysics community. More recently, Shirley Ho has concentrated her efforts on creating foundation models for science and developing novel techniques in interpretable machine learning.

Shirley Ho won several prizes for her significant contributions to the fields of astrophysics and AI. The list includes National Blavatnik Award Finalist, European Physical Society Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize in cosmology, NASA Group Achievement Award, Macronix Prize, Carnegie Science Award. She was also elected as a Fellow of the International Astrostatistics Association in 2020.

She always tries to balance between Machine learning, the Universe, and life, and almost always fails to do so.