Dr. Melodie Kao is a Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellow at UC Santa Cruz in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics. She studies radio emissions from very low mass stars and brown dwarfs, which are failed stars that didn't have enough mass to burn hydrogen in their cores. Kao uses data analytics to understand planetary magnetic fields by studying brown dwarf magnetic fields. Her work involves designing experiments, collecting data using large telescopes, and analyzing the data using Python scripts. She emphasizes the importance of good experiment design for quality data analysis. The storage and processing of radio astronomy data is a significant challenge due to its size. Kao believes that greater data transparency and reproducible results are ideal goals in science but acknowledges the challenges posed by concerns over intellectual property and job security.