People

Faculty

Collin Capano

Research Computing Specialist (UMassD)

ccapano@umassd.edu

Sarah Caudill

Faculty (UMassD)

scaudill@umassd.edu

Rob Coyne

Faculty (URI)

Department of Physics
East Hall Room 219
2 Lippitt Road
Kingston, RI 02881

401.874.4928
robcoyne@uri.edu

Scott Field

Faculty (UMassD)

Robert Fisher

Faculty (UMassD)

Douglas B. Gobeille

Faculty (URI)

Gaurav Khanna

Faculty (URI & UMassD)

Department of Physics,
East Hall,
2 Lippitt Road,
Kingston, RI 02881

gkhanna@uri.edu

Michael Pürrer

Computational Scientist, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics (URI)

220 Tyler Hall

mpuerrer@uri.edu

Vijay Varma

Faculty (UMassD)

vijay.varma392@gmail.com

Students

Ashwin Girish

Graduate Student (URI)

Ritesh Bachhar

Graduate Student (URI)

East Hall,
2 Lippitt Road,
Kingston, RI 02881

Bhaskar Verma

Graduate Student (UMass)

bverma@umassd.edu

Som Dev Bishoyi

Graduate Student (UMass)

Nikola Bukowiecka

PhD Physics

URI Doctoral fellow

Caroline Mallary

Postdoc (UMass)

Sam Clyne

Graduate Student (URI)

Brian Cornet

Graduate Student (UMass)

Alex Correia

EAS (UMass)

Eric McKinney

Undergraduate Student, Arts and Sciences Fellow (URI)

Tousif Islam

Graduate Student (UMass)

Connor Kenyon

Graduate Student (UMass)

Aubrey Laity

Graduate Student - NASA RI Space Grant Graduate Fellow (URI)

Matthew Maini

Graduate Student – NASA RI Space Grant Graduate Fellow (URI)

NeereshKumar Perla

Graduate Student (UMass)

Adhrit Ravichandran

Graduate Student (UMass)

Abhishek Ravishankar

Graduate Student (UMass)

Feroz Shaik

Graduate Student (UMass)

Swati Singh

Graduate Student (UMass)

Michael St. Pierre

Graduate Student – NASA RI Space Grant Graduate Fellow (URI)

Pranav Vinod

Graduate Student (UMass)

Manas Vishal

Graduate Student – Distinguished Doctoral Fellow (UMass)

Haolan Zheng

Graduate Student (UMass)

Ivan Arturo Abreu Paniagua

Undergraduate Student, Arts and Sciences Fellow (URI)

Julia Karlberg

Undergraduate Student (URI)

Alexander Doyne-Ditmas

Undergraduate Student (URI)

Alumni (since 2021)

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.

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

Edward McClain

Graduate Student (UMass)

Ed is currently an Astrophysicist in Mission Planning (Science Division) at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada

Graduate Student (UMass)

MS, Physics (2022).
Kevin is currently in a Ph.D. program at Case Western University.

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

Estuti Shukla

Intern (Summer 2021)

Estuti is currently in a Ph.D. program at Penn State.

Sayem Khan

Graduate Student (UMass)

Sayem is currently in a Ph.D. program at the University of Buffalo

Alec Yonika

Graduate Student (UMass)

PhD, EAS-CSE (2022).
Alec is currently the Principal Research Scientist at BAE.

Past Students (Current Location)

  1. Katie Rink (UT Austin)
  2. Kevin Quesada Gonzalez (Case)
  3. Chris Gibert (NUWC)
  4. Caroline Mallary, ICERM, Brown
  5. Kimberly Matsuda, RPI
  6. Nur Rifat, U. of Virginia
  7. Trevor Robertson, UMaine
  8. Divya Sreenivasan, Healthcare Industry
  9. Aakash Kardam, Microway Inc. (HPC)
  10. Derek Marshall, Capital One (Finance Industry)
  11. Izak Thuestad, NUWC
  12. Eliza Miley, NUWC
  13. Rahul Kashyap, ICTS India, Penn State
  14. Will Duff, Industry 
  15. Sarah Seva, Teaching 
  16. Tyler Spilhaus, Raytheon
  17. David Torndorf-Dick, UNH
  18. Ed McClain, Louisiana State, Harvard CfA 
  19. Charles Harnden, Teaching
  20. Dan Walsh, Teaching
  21. Gary Forrester, Teaching
  22. Mike DeSousa, Industry
  23. Justin McKennon, General Dynamics
  24. Dave Falta, Harvard
  25. Matthew Hogan, Florida Atlantic Univ.
  26. Philip Mendonca, Florida Atlantic Univ.
  27. Rakesh Ginjupalli, IBM
  28. Sarah McLeod, Univ. of Melbourne
  29. Ian Nagle, Florida Atlantic Univ.
  30. Joshua Liberty, Univ. of Rhode Island, NUWC
  31. Emanuel Simon, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
  32. Francis Boateng, UMass Lowell
  33. Subir Sabharwal, Columbia University
  34. Vishnu Paruchuri, Columbia U. Finance
  35. Jessica Rosen, Industry
  36. Peter Goetz, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
  37. Seth Connors, High-School Teacher
  38. Zhenhua Ning, Univ. of Illinois UC
  39. Nobuhiro Suzuki, Univ. of Rhode Island
  40. Mike O’Brien, Rutgers Univ.
  41. Matt Strafuss, MIT