Graduate Students

Joe Adamo

• B.S. in Engineering Physics, 2020, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joe works with Dr. Tim Eifler on extracting cosmological information from current and upcoming galaxy surveys. He is interested in studying the nature of dark energy, and in using machine learning to enhance cosmological data analyses.

Rachael C Amaro

• B.S. in Engineering Physics, 2018, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Haley Bowden

• B.S. in Physics, 2020, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jane Bright

• B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Mathematics, 2018, Denison University

Zuyi Chen

• B.S. in Astronomy, 2019, University of Science & Technology of China

Collin Christy

• B.S. in Physics and Astrophysics, 2021, The Ohio State University

Christa DeCoursey

• B.S. in Physics and Astrophysics, 2021, University of Florida

Hayden Foote

• B.A. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020, University of Colorado - Boulder

Hayden works with Gurtina Besla to study the dynamics of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies and what they can tell us about the nature of dark matter.

Noah Franz

• B.S. in Physics and Applied Data Science, 2023, Siena College

Aaron Goldtooth

• B.S. in Astronomy & Mathematics, 2022, University of Arizona

Jakob Helton

• B.A. in Astrophysical Sciences, 2021, Princeton University

Brian Hsu

• B.A in Astrophysics and Physics, 2023, Harvard University

Yu-Hsiu Huang

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2019, National Tsing Hua University

• M.S. in Physics, 2021, National Taiwan University

Yun-Hsin Huang

• M.S., 2015, University of Chicago

Yun-Hsin is working with Profs. Xiaohui Fan and Eiichi Egami on the Steward/UKIRT Near-IR Imaging of the Hyper Supreme-Cam (HSC) Deep Fields.

Sóley Hyman

• B.A. in Astrophysics & Physics, 2019, Harvard University

Sóley works with Kate Daniel to study galaxy evolution through the lens of how and when stellar orbits evolve over time. http://soleyhyman.github.io/

Xiangyu Jin

• B.S. in Physics, 2018, Nanjing University

• M.S. in Physics, 2020, McGill University

Aafaque Khan

• B. Tech. Mechanical Engineering, 2013, National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India

Aafaque works with Dr. Erika Hamden on developing UV detectors and instrumentation for balloon and space-based telescopes. He is interested in studying the Circumgalactic medium (CGM) and its role in galaxy evolution.

Donghyeon (Jeff) Khim

• B.S. in Astronomy and Physics, 2018, Yonsei University

Chia-Lin Ko

• B.S. in Physics, 2018, National Taiwan Normal University

• M.S. in Astronomy, 2020, National Tsing Hua University

Genevieve Kuo

• B.S in Physics, 2022, National Taiwan University

Sophie Lebowitz

• B.A. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020, Ohio State University

Jialin Li

• B.S. in Physics, 2022, University of California, Santa Cruz

Vikram Manikantan

• B.A. in Physics w/ Honors, 2022, Northwestern University

Vikram is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist whose research focuses on the multi-messenger nature of compact objects such as supermassive black hole binaries, neutron stars, supernovae, and other high-energy transients. He uses numerical relativity and magnetohydrodynamic simulations, such as Einstein Toolkit, IllinoisGRMHD, and Athena++, to study these systems in a variety of contexts. His current work focuses on the late-time evolution of accreting supermassive black hole binaries in the LISA band. Future work will hopefully expand the current numerical framework to study neutron star mergers, core-collapse supernovae, and other high-energy transients at unprecedented resolutions.

Evan Mayer

• B.A. Physics, 2017, University of Chicago

Matthew Murphy

• B.S. in Physics & Astronomy, 2020, Stony Brook University

Mahdi Naseri

• B.S. in Physics, 2021, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran

Brock Parker

• B.S. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023, University of Wyoming

Logan Pearce

• B.S., 2019, University of Texas at Austin

• M.A., 2014, University of Texas at Austin

• B.S., 2003, Purdue University

Jeniveve Pearson

• B.S. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020, The Ohio State University

Maria Pudoka

• B.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021, The Ohio State University

Pranjal Rajendra Singh

• B.Tech. in Engineering Physics, 2019, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Himansh Rathore

• B.Tech in Engineering Physics , 2022, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Nicholas Schragal

• B.S., Physics, 2021, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Amy Smock

• B.S. in Physics, 2018, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Meredith Stone

• B.S. in Astronomy, 2022, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Yang Sun

• B.S. , 2020, Beijing Normal University

Jasmin Washington

• B.S. in Astronomy & Physics, 2020, University of Virginia

Lily Whitler

• B.S. in Physics & Mathematics, 2020, Arizona State University

Charity Woodrum

• B.S. in Physics, 2018, University of Oregon

Ningyuan Xu

• B.A. in Astrophysics & Physics, 2023, University of California at Berkeley

Jiachuan Xu

• B.S. in Physics, 2018, Tsinghua University

Junyu Zhang

• B.S. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics and Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University