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The George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy

Former Students

Name Graduated Degree Advisor Where They Went
Lalitwadee Kawinwanichakij August 2018 Ph.D. Casey Papovich PostDoc at the Kavli Inst. for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Davi Rodrigues August 2018 Ph.D. Ergin Sezgin Post-doc Assistant at Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz
Daniel Nagasawa August 2018 Ph.D. Jennifer Marshall
Esteban Jimenez Moya August 2018 Ph.D. Bhaskar Dutta Assistant Professor at Costa Rica University
Arash Azizi August 2018 Ph.D Christopher Pope PostDoc at TAMU
Peter Chi August 2018 Masters Louis Strigari Ph.D. at TAMU
Alexx Perloff May 2018 Ph.D. Ricardo Eusebi PostDoc at Univ of Colorado Boulder
Ali Celik May 2018 Ph.D. Teruki Kamon
Katelyn Stringer May 2018 Masters Jennifer Marshall Ph.D. at TAMU
Richard Lawrence May 2018 Masters David Toback Ph.D. at TAMU
Benjamin Forrest May 2018 Ph.D. Kim-Vy Tran PostDoc at University of California, Riverside
Zachary Wetzel December 2017 Ph.D. Rupak Mahapatra Fabrication Engineer at Nahomics Inc
Zhijin Li August 2017 Ph.D. Christopher Pope PostDoc in Portugal
Yaodong Zhu August 2017 Ph.D. Ergin Sezgin
Wenlong Yuan August 2017 Ph.D. Lucas Macri PostDoc at Johns Hopkins University
Dingli Hu August 2017 Ph.D. Dmitry Nanopoulos MathWorks Software Developer
Rachel Mannino August 2017 Ph.D. Robert Webb PostDoc at University of Wisonsin-Madison
Sean Wu August 2017 Ph.D. Bhaskar Dutta Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati
Yaniel Cabrera August 2017 Ph.D. Melanie Becker Geophysicist at DownUnder GeoSolutions
Yi Yang August 2017 Ph.D. Lifan Wang PostDoc at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel
Andrew Quick May 2017 Masters Nicholas Suntzeff Ph.D. at TAMU
Richard Beck May 2017 Masters Rupak Mahapatra Ph.D. at TAMU
Andrea Delgado May 2017 Masters Ricardo Eusebi Ph.D. at TAMU
Katrina Colletti December 2016 Master David Toback Teaching math/science at St. Michael’s
Leo Alcorn December 2016 Masters Kim-Vy Tran PH.D at TAMU
Steven Boada August 2016 Ph.D Casey Papovich PostDoc at Rutgers University
Michael Smitka August 2016 Ph.D Nicholas Suntzeff Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State
Tathagata Ghosh August 2016 Ph.D Bhaskar Dutta PostDoc at Oklahoma State University
Brett Salmon August 2016 Ph.D Casey Papovich PostDoc at the Space Telescope Science Institute
Ning Su August 2016 Ph.D Melanie Becker PostDoc at CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics
Junchen Rong August 2016 Ph.D Christopher Pope PostDoc at Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe
Aysen Tatarinov August 2016 Ph.D Alexei Safonov Data Scientist at The Honest Company
Jimmy May 2016 Ph.D Kim-Vy Tran Data Scientist at 3M
Daniel Nagasawa May 2016 Masters Jennifer Marshall Ph.D. at TAMU
Ting Li May 2016 Ph.D Darren DePoy PostDoc at Fermilab
Benjamin Forrest May 2016 Master Kim-Vy Tran Ph.D. at TAMU
Ryan Oelkers May 2016 Ph.D. Lucas Macri PostDoc at Vanderbilt University
Wenlong Yuan December 2015 Masters Lucas Macri PH.D. at TAMU
Xuji Zhao December 2015 Masters David Toback PH.D. at TAMU
Ziqing Hong December 2015 Ph.D. David Toback PostDoc, Northwestern Univ.
Andrew Jastram December 2015 Ph.D. Rupak Mahapatra PostDoc, TAMU
Adam Tomczak August 2015 Ph.D. Kim-Vy Tran PostDoc, UC Davis
Heath Shipley August 2015 Ph.D. Casey Papovich PostDoc at Tufts University
Brett Salmon May 2015 Masters Casey Papovich Ph.D. at TAMU
Indara Suarez May 2015 Ph.D. Alexei Safonov UCSB
Elizabeth Sooby December 2014 Ph.D. Peter McIntyre Los Alamos National Lab
Zhao Wang December 2014 Ph.D. Katrin Becker Seismic Imager at CGG
Eddie Holik III August 2014 Ph.D. Peter McIntyre Assistant Professor at Angelo State University
Jorge Morales Mendoza August 2014 Masters David Toback Ph.D. at TAMU
Justin Comeaux August 2014 Masters Peter McIntyre Casedhole – Solutions, Inc.
Kechen Wang August 2014 Ph.D. Bhaskar Dutta Chinese Academy of Sciences
Klaus Smit August 2014 Masters Peter Mcintyre Engineer at Haliburton
Will Flanagan August 2014 Ph.D. Teruki Kamon UT
Xianghan Yao August 2014 Ph.D. Alexey Belyanin Tepper School oh Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Clement Sofka May 2014 Ph.D. Robert Webb Heat Transfer Research in Navasota
Jeffrey Roe May 2014 Masters Alexei Safonov Ph.D. at TAMU
Kyle Damborsky May 2014 Ph.D. Peter McIntyre Instructor at Pfeiffer University
Don Smith December 2013 Ph.D. Alexey Belyanin Discovery Labs, Austin
Kunj Prasad December 2013 Ph.D. Rupak Mahapatra Medical Imaging with Toshiba
Sean Yeager December 2013 Masters David Toback San Francisco
Ali Celik August 2013 Masters Teruki Kamon Ph.D. at TAMU
Sean Downes August 2013 Ph.D. Bhaskar Dutta Taiwan University
Tyana Stiegler August 2013 Ph.D. Robert Webb Visiting Professor at TAMU
Abid Mujtaba May 2013 Ph.D. Christopher Pope Developer at Sanders New Media
Mehmet Ozkan May 2013 Ph.D. Netherlands
Roy Montalvo May 2013 Ph.D. Teruki Kamon Lecturer at UTEP
Samantha Hoffmann May 2013 Ph.D. Texas A&M University
Ziqing Hong May 2013 Masters David Toback Ph.D. at TAMU
Adam Aurisano December 2012 Ph.D. David Toback University of Cincinnati
Alexx Perloff December 2012 Masters Ricardo Eusebi
Jonthan Asaadi December 2012 Ph.D. David Toback Syracuse University
Andrew Wagers August 2012 Ph.D. Lifan Wang Cedarville University, Ohio
Arun Aryasomayajula August 2012 Masters Rupak Mahapatra Optimal Solutions Inc.
Daniel Cruz Alonso August 2012 Masters David Toback Intergraph Corporation in VA
John Krause August 2012 Masters Darren DePoy & Casey Papovich
Kristopher Koch August 2012 Masters Rupak Mahapatra University of Minnesoda
Rebecca Habas August 2012 Masters Nicholas Suntzeff Ph.D. program at University of Insbrook, Austria
Sheldon Campbell August 2012 Ph.D. Bhaskar Dutta Ohio State University
Jimmy August 2012 Masters Kim-Vy Tran
Samuel Gooding December 2011 Masters Nicholas Suntzeff
Abram Krislock August 2011 Ph.D. Bhaskar Dutta Stockholm University, Sweden
Alfredo Gurrola August 2011 Masters Teruki Kamon Research Scientist in Vanderbilt
Andrey Elagin August 2011 Ph.D. Alexei Safonov Fermi Inst in Chicago
Dan Xie August 2011 Ph.D. Dimitri Nanopoulos
Guangyu Guo August 2011 Ph.D. Katrin Becker Tsinghau University, China
Joy Chavez August 2011 Masters Darren DePoy Gemini Observatory
Kechen Wang August 2011 Masters Bhastar Dutta
Vaikunth Thukral August 2011 Masters David Toback
Elizabeth Sooby May 2011 Masters Peter McIntyre Ph.D. at TAMU
Michael Mason May 2011 Masters David Toback Los Alamos National Lab
Nathaniel Pogue May 2011 Ph.D. Peter McIntyre Assistant Research Scientist at TAMU
Yong Hee Cho May 2011 Ph.D. Alexey Belyanin Samsung R&D Lab
Yu-Chieh Chung May 2011 Ph.D. Katrin Becker IPMU, Japan
James Maxin August 2010 Ph.D. Dimitri Nanopoulos Assistant Professor at Univerisity of Tulsa
Jianwei Mei August 2010 Ph.D. Christopher Pope Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Paul Bruillard August 2010 Masters Bhaskar Dutta Ph.D. in Mathematics at TAMU
Xia Hau August 2010 Masters Alexei Safonov Ph.D. in Physics at TAMU
Eunsin Lee May 2010 Ph.D. David Toback Medical Physics at UW Med
Masaki Watabe May 2010 Ph.D. Robert Webb
Charles Russell III December 2009 Masters Nicholas Suntzeff
Venkata Chaganti December 2009 Masters Alexey Belyanin U Wisconsin Milwaukee
Jianting Gao August 2009 Ph.D. LDK Solar USA, Inc.
Eddie Holik III December 2008 Masters Peter McIntyre Ph.D. at TAMU
Feng Xie December 2008 Ph.D. Alexey Belyanin Corning, Inc.
Masaki Watabe December 2008 Masters Robert Webb Ph.D. at TAMU
Sunnam Min December 2008 Masters Robert Webb
Vadim Khotilovich May 2008 Ph.D. Alexei Safonov Cerner Corp
Der-Chyn Jong December 2007 Ph.D. Ergin Sezgin
Jonathan Asaadi December 2007 Masters David Toback Ph.D. at TAMU
Wei Chen December 2007 Ph.D. Christopher Pope
Eric Mayes August 2007 Ph.D. Arizona State
Peter Wagner August 2007 Ph.D. David Toback CERN
Van Mayes August 2007 Ph.D. Dimitri Nanopoulos Assistant Professor at University of Houston
Adam Aurisano May 2007 Masters David Toback Ph.D. at TAMU
Feng Zhang May 2007 Masters Dimitri Nanopoulos
Patrick Noyes May 2007 Masters Peter McIntyre NHMFL in Tallahassee
David Maffei December 2006 Masters Robert Webb
Vyacheslav Krutelyov December 2006 Ph.D. Teruki Kamon Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
Ching-Ming Chen August 2006 Ph.D. Dimitri Nanopoulos Senior Lecturer at Wayne State University
Gang Zhao August 2006 Ph.D. Dimitri Nanopoulos
Mathew Cervantes August 2006 Masters David Toback
Zhiwei Chong August 2006 Ph.D. Christopher Pope Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing
Anastasios Peppas May 2006 Masters Christopher Pope
James Dent August 2005 Ph.D. Christopher Pope Vanderbilt
Joel Walker August 2005 Ph.D. Dimitri Nanopoulos Assistant Professor at Sam Houston
Johannes Kerimo May 2005 Ph.D. Christopher Pope
Andreas Mershin December 2003 Ph.D. Dimitri Nanopoulos Naval Research Laboratory
Arta Sadrzadeh August 2002 Ph.D. Christopher Pope Rice University