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Ting's research focuses on near-field cosmology, particularly studying the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and nearby galaxies to understand their formation and the nature of dark matter. Ting specializes in analyzing large data sets from modern surveys and performing traditional astronomical observations using optical and near-infrared telescopes. He is involved in building astronomical instruments and contributes to infrastructure work for large-area sky surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). He is also a founder and leader of the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5), which maps streams of stars across the Southern Hemisphere to determine the mass profile of the Milky Way. Additionally, he convenes the DES Milky Way Working Group and the Dark Matter Working Group, and co-chairs the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) project, a facility dedicated to conducting generation spectroscopic surveys.
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