Mason Ng

Mson is currently a sixth-year graduate student in the Department of Physics and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. He was born in New Zealand, but lived most of his life in Singapore before returning to New Zealand to finish high school and pursuing hid undergraduate degree. Mason has a Bachelor of Science, majoring in physics and mathematics, and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics from the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand. He also worked briefly at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, and at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. In his leisure time, Mason enjoys working on fitness goals, reading the news, and exploring/traveling. In his current research program, he employs a multifaceted approach to studying accreting neutron star binaries, utilizing X-ray timing, spectroscopy, and polarimetry with many X-ray instruments, to advance our understanding of the dynamics and evolution of these systems. Mason uses the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) heavily, and he has worked with NuSTAR, Chandra, XMM-Newton, Swift, RXTE, and AstroSat data. Mason works primarily with Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty and Dr. Herman Marshall.