Faculty
Adjunct Faculty at UMass -- now at Syracuse
Faculty (UMass)
Faculty (URI)
Department of Physics
East Hall Room 219
2 Lippitt Road
Kingston, RI 02881
401.874.4928
robcoyne@uri.edu
Faculty (UMass)
Faculty (UMass)
Faculty (URI)
Faculty (URI & UMass)
Department of Physics,
East Hall,
2 Lippitt Road,
Kingston, RI 02881
Computational Scientist, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics (URI)
220 Tyler Hall
Faculty (UMass)
Students
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Ashwin Girish
Graduate Student (URI)
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Ritesh Bachhar
Graduate Student (URI)
East Hall,
2 Lippitt Road,
Kingston, RI 02881
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Bhaskar Verma
Graduate Student (UMass)
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Som Dev Bishoyi
Graduate Student (UMass)
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Nikola Bukowiecka
PhD Physics
URI Doctoral fellow
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Caroline Mallary
Postdoc (UMass)
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Sam Clyne
Graduate Student (URI)
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Brian Cornet
Graduate Student (UMass)
Alex Correia
EAS (UMass)
Eric McKinney
Undergraduate Student, Arts and Sciences Fellow (URI)
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Tousif Islam
Graduate Student (UMass)
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Connor Kenyon
Graduate Student (UMass)
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Aubrey Laity
Graduate Student - NASA RI Space Grant Graduate Fellow (URI)
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Matthew Maini
Graduate Student – NASA RI Space Grant Graduate Fellow (URI)
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NeereshKumar Perla
Graduate Student (UMass)
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Adhrit Ravichandran
Graduate Student (UMass)
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Abhishek Ravishankar
Graduate Student (UMass)
Feroz Shaik
Graduate Student (UMass)
Swati Singh
Graduate Student (UMass)
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Michael St. Pierre
Graduate Student – NASA RI Space Grant Graduate Fellow (URI)
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Pranav Vinod
Graduate Student (UMass)
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Manas Vishal
Graduate Student – Distinguished Doctoral Fellow (UMass)
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Haolan Zheng
Graduate Student (UMass)
Ivan Arturo Abreu Paniagua
Undergraduate Student, Arts and Sciences Fellow (URI)
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Julia Karlberg
Undergraduate Student (URI)
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Alexander Doyne-Ditmas
Undergraduate Student (URI)
Alumni (since 2021)
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Colin Brown
Graduate Student (UMass)
4+1 BSc/MSc, Data Science (2021).
Colin is currently in a Ph.D. program at the Northern Illinois University.
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Dwyer Deighan
Graduate Student (UMass)
4+1 BSc/MSc, Data Science (2021).
Dwyer is currently in a Ph.D. program at the University of Buffalo.
Tyson George
Undergraduate Student (UMass)
4+1 BSc/MSc, Physics (2022).
Tyson is currently in a Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech
Keigan Cullen
Undergraduate Student (UMass)
BS, Physics (2023).
Works at New Bedford Research & Robotics
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Edward McClain
Graduate Student (UMass)
Ed is currently an Astrophysicist in Mission Planning (Science Division) at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada
Graduate Student (UMass)
MS, Physics (2022).
Kevin is currently in a Ph.D. program at Case Western University.
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Katie Rink
Graduate Student (UMass)
MSc, Physics (2022).
Now a PhD student at UT Austin.
Rebecca Rodrigues
Undergraduate Student (UMass)
BS, Mathematics (2023).
Now a PhD student at RIT
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Estuti Shukla
Intern (Summer 2021)
Estuti is currently in a Ph.D. program at Penn State.
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Sayem Khan
Graduate Student (UMass)
Sayem is currently in a Ph.D. program at the University of Buffalo
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Alec Yonika
Graduate Student (UMass)
PhD, EAS-CSE (2022).
Alec is currently the Principal Research Scientist at BAE.
Past Students (Current Location)
- Katie Rink (UT Austin)
- Kevin Quesada Gonzalez (Case)
- Chris Gibert (NUWC)
- Caroline Mallary, ICERM, Brown
- Kimberly Matsuda, RPI
- Nur Rifat, U. of Virginia
- Trevor Robertson, UMaine
- Divya Sreenivasan, Healthcare Industry
- Aakash Kardam, Microway Inc. (HPC)
- Derek Marshall, Capital One (Finance Industry)
- Izak Thuestad, NUWC
- Eliza Miley, NUWC
- Rahul Kashyap, ICTS India, Penn State
- Will Duff, Industry
- Sarah Seva, Teaching
- Tyler Spilhaus, Raytheon
- David Torndorf-Dick, UNH
- Ed McClain, Louisiana State, Harvard CfA
- Charles Harnden, Teaching
- Dan Walsh, Teaching
- Gary Forrester, Teaching
- Mike DeSousa, Industry
- Justin McKennon, General Dynamics
- Dave Falta, Harvard
- Matthew Hogan, Florida Atlantic Univ.
- Philip Mendonca, Florida Atlantic Univ.
- Rakesh Ginjupalli, IBM
- Sarah McLeod, Univ. of Melbourne
- Ian Nagle, Florida Atlantic Univ.
- Joshua Liberty, Univ. of Rhode Island, NUWC
- Emanuel Simon, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
- Francis Boateng, UMass Lowell
- Subir Sabharwal, Columbia University
- Vishnu Paruchuri, Columbia U. Finance
- Jessica Rosen, Industry
- Peter Goetz, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
- Seth Connors, High-School Teacher
- Zhenhua Ning, Univ. of Illinois UC
- Nobuhiro Suzuki, Univ. of Rhode Island
- Mike O’Brien, Rutgers Univ.
- Matt Strafuss, MIT