Graduate Students
A
Akinyemi, Olayinka
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor David Mathews
- Research Group: Computational Biology
- Office Location
- 3-8809 Medical Center
Alex, Nimmy
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Kevin McFarland
- Office Location
- 257 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Alford, Wynter
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 304 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Anand, Atma
- PhD Student, PASSAGE Treasurer
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Jonathan Carrol-Nellenback
- Research Group: Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 453 Bausch and Lomb
Armstrong, Abigail
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Petros Tzeferacos
- Research Group: Computational Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 373 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Arnold, Brennan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Suxing Hu
- Research Group: High Energy Density Physics
- Office Location
- 309 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Arroyo-Rivera, Edgar Samuel
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Robert Boyd
- Research Group: Optics
- Office Location
- Wilmot Building
B
Bachmann, Tristan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Petros Tzeferacos
- Office Location
- 373 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Banerjee, Soham
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 304 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Barfield, Zachariah
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Dustin Froula
- Research Group: Plasma Physics
- Office Location
- 286B Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Beaulieu, Michelle
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Doug Kelley
- Research Group: Experimental Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- 306 Hopeman
Bhatt, Binod
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Gourab Ghoshal
- Office Location
- 474 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Bhatt Dinesha, Dhanush
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Professor Bob Boyd
- Research Group: Optics
- Office Location
- 306 Wilmot
Billings, Virginia
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Bishel, David
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professors Rip Collins and Ryan Rygg
- Research Group: High Energy Density Physics
- Office Location
- 200C Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Brown, Zachery
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Regina Demina
- Research Group: Cosmology
- Office Location
- 366 Bausch and Lomb Hall
C
Chakraborty, Abhishek
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Andrew Jordan
- Research Group: Theoretical Quantum Optics
- Office Location
- Offsite
Champion, Elizabeth
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Machiel Blok
- Research Group: Quantum Information Science
- Office Location
- 453A Bausch & Lomb Hall
Chandrasekharan, Gaayatri
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Office Location
- 324 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Chng, Benjamin
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Pengfei (Frank) Huo
- Research Group: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Office Location
- 431 Hutchison Hall
Choi, Gwyneth
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 304 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Converse, Marcus
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Frank Wolfs
- Research Group: Astroparticle Physics
- Office Location
- 203G Bausch and Lomb
Cook, Walter
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Czupryniak, Robert
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Professor Andrew Jordan
- Research Group: theoretical quantum optics
- Office Location
- 325 Bausch and Lomb Hall
D
D'Souza, Justin
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Shuai Zhang
- Research Group: High Energy Density Physics Theory
- Office Location
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Danly, Christopher
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Riccardo Betti
- Research Group: Plasma and Lasers
- Office Location
- Offsite
Dhami, Lokendra Singh
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 304 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Dong, Xue
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Will Renninger
- Research Group: Optics
- Office Location
- 224 Wilmot Building
Duan, Jiheng
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- B08 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Dulemba, Joseph
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2015
- Advisor: Professor Regina Demina
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- CERN
- Telephone
- +41 (227) 677-897
Durkee, Dylan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Prof. Suxing Hu
- Research Group: High Energy Density Physics Theory
- Office Location
- Offsite
E
Elias, Joel
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Kevin McFarland
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- 259 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Ellaboudy, Ammar
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor John Nichol
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- B08 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Elliott, Amanda
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Erez, Irem Nesli
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Professor Pierre Gourdain
- Research Group: Plasma Physics
- Office Location
- 471 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Evans, Matthew
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2015
- Advisor: Pierre Gourdain
- Research Group: Plasma Physics
- Office Location
- 471 Bausch and Lomb Hall
F
Fiusa, Guilherme
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 304 Bausch & Lomb Hall
G
Gomez Ramirez, Sara
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 304 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Goshadze, Rati
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Valentin Karasev
- Research Group: Theoretical Plasma/Laser Physics
- Office Location
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Griswold, Spencer
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Segev BenZvi
- Research Group: Astroparticle Physics
- Office Location
- 458 Bausch and Lomb Hall
H
Haber, Elisha
- PhD Student, Received NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Nick Bigelow
- Research Group: Experimental Quantum Optics
- Office Location
- 170 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Hamilton, Danielle
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Hannan, Nafiz
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Timothy Baran
- Research Group: Biological Physics
- Office Location
- Med Center
Hare, Honor
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Aran Garcia-Bellido
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- 352 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Hegde, Abhay Seetaram
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Gabriel Landi
- Office Location
- 324 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Herrera Flor, Alan Yuseth
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Regina Demina
- Research Group: High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- CERN
Hinz, Joshua
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2016
- Advisor: Valentin Karasev, Sr. Scientist at the LLE
- Research Group: Theoretical Plasma/Laser Physics
- Office Location
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0339
Hoang, Nhat Bin
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Dr. Jianhui Zhong; Dr. Gionvanni Schifitto
- Research Group: Biological Physics
- Office Location
- 5.7425A UR Medicine Neurology Building
Howell, Ryan
- PhD Candidate, Awarded DOE SCGSR - 2019
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Steve Manly
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- 259 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Hraki, Jenna
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 471 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Hu, Le
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Andrew Jordan
- Research Group: Theoretical Quantum Optics
- Office Location
- Offsite
Huang, Irwin
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Office Location
- Offsite
J
Jenick, Jessica
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Nicholas Bigelow
- Office Location
- 314 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Jung, KiYoung
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 304 Bausch & Lomb Hall
K
Kaldawi, Thomas
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Riccardo Betti
- Office Location
- 2650 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Kandel, Yadav (Yaad)
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor John Nichol
- Research Group: Experimental Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- B09 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Karmakar, Tathagata
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Andrew Jordan
- Research Group: Theoretical Quantum Optics
- Office Location
- Offsite
- Web Address
- Website
Kelty, Sean
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2016
- Advisor: Professor Gourab Ghoshal
- Research Group: Theoretical Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- 474 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Kim, Hakhyeon
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Kish, Ayden
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Adam Sefkow
- Research Group: Plasma/Laser Physics
- Office Location
- Hopeman
Kotorashvili, Ketevan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Eric Blackman
- Research Group: Theoretical Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 454 Bausch & Lomb Hall
L
Labelle, Isabelle
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Lachat, Mitchell
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Steven Manly
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- 260 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Lin, Zihao
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Luniewski, Stephen
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Alice Quillen
- Office Location
- 427 Bausch & Lomb Hall
M
Mack, Lavonne
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Markland, Hunter
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Dustin Froula
- Office Location
- 2224 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Markowski, Jake
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Markwick, Robert
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Adam Frank
- Research Group: Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 453 Bausch and Lomb Hall
McCarthy, Morgan Elise
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Professor Frank Wolfs
- Research Group: Astroparticle Physics
- Office Location
- 203G Bausch and Lomb Hall
McMillen, Kyle
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Dustin Froula and Jessica Shaw
- Research Group: Relativistic Laser-Plasma Experiments
- Office Location
- 290B Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
McMullan, Mary
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Petros Tzeferacos
- Office Location
- 373 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Medahinne Gedara, Chandema Mihirangi Kumari
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Professor Machiel Blok
- Research Group: Quantum Information Science
- Office Location
- 459 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Mei, Yuhan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Jaime Cardenas
- Research Group: Theoretical Quantum Optics
- Office Location
- 203 Wilmot
Mohamed, Ahmed
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Mohapatra, Ananya
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Petros Tzeferacos
- Research Group: Computational Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 373 Bausch & Lomb Hall
N
Nguyen, Quang
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Nick Vamivakas
- Research Group: Experimental Quantum Optics and Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- 103 Wilmot Annex
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4001
Nguyen, Long Duc
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Professor Bob Boyd
- Research Group: Optics
- Office Location
- 307 Wilmot
Nichols, Katarina
- PhD Student - - Strickland Fellowship Winner
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Suxing Hu
- Research Group: High Energy Density Physics
- Office Location
- 200S Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
O
Ollis, Trevor
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Nick Vamivakas
- Research Group: Experimental Quantum Optics and Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- 104 Wilmot Annex
P
Pantell, Hadley
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professors Rip Collins and Ryan Rygg
- Research Group: High Energy Density Physics
- Office Location
- 200C Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Paramanick, Shubhonkar
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Eric G. Blackman
- Research Group: Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 454 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Parker, Rayleigh
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Professor Machiel Blok
- Research Group: Quantum Information Science
- Office Location
- 459 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Parmar, Nukulsinh
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Aran Garcia-Bellido
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- CERN
Poudyal, Bibandhan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Gourab Ghoshal
- Research Group: Theoretical Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- 474 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Q
Qie, Yufan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Frank Wolfs
- Research Group: Astroparticle Physics
- Office Location
- 203G Bausch & Lomb Hall
R
Rahman, Reshad
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Antonino Di Piazza
- Office Location
- 303 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Ravi, Nitya
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Segev BenZvi
- Office Location
- 427 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Reilly, Nicholas
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2015
- Advisor: Professor Dan Watson
- Research Group: Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 426 Bausch and Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3842
Rincon, Hernan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Segev BenZvi
- Research Group: Astroparticle Physics/Cosmology
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Ringhand, Kristin
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Dan Watson
- Research Group: Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 426 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Rubinstein, Adam
- PhD Student, PASSAGE VP of Outreach
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Dan Watson
- Research Group: Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 427 Bausch and Lomb
S
Sam, Akza
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 304 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Schunke, Austin
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Schwartz, Andrew
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 476 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Signor, Matthew
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Rip Collins
- Research Group: High Energy Density Physics
- Office Location
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Simpson, Tanner
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Dustin Froula
- Research Group: Plasma Physics
- Office Location
- 246B Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Singh, Alok
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Andrew Jordan
- Research Group: Theoretical Quantum Optics
- Office Location
- Offsite
Smedley, Jack
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Chris Marshall
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- Fermilab
Smith, Ethan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Rip Collins
- Research Group: High Energy Density Physics
- Office Location
- 309 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Sprowal, Zaire
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professors Rip Collins and Ryan Rygg
- Research Group: High Energy Density Physics
- Office Location
- 200C Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0339
Stromswold, Rachel
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor Nicholas Bigelow
- Office Location
- 314 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Sultana, Mehreen
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2015
- Advisor: Kevin McFarland
- Research Group: High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- Fermilab
T
Tan, Chin Lung (Keane)
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Aran Garcia-Bellido
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- Fermilab
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0339
Tariq, Maida
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Regina Demina
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- 352 Bausch and Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0339
Taus, Rhys
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2015
- Advisor: Professor Arie Bodek
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- CERN
- Telephone
- +41 (227) 674-490
- Web Address
- Website
Thapa Magar, Suraj
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2021
- Advisor: Professor John Nichol
- Research Group: Experimental Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- B09 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Tirumala, Sarat Chandra Kant
- PhD Candidate
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Will Renninger
- Research Group: Optics
- Office Location
- 316 Wilmot
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2328
Tiwari, Shivanshi
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- 304 Bausch & Lomb Hall
U
Utaegbulam, Hilary
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2023
- Office Location
- FermiLab
Uzun, Yavuz
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Krishnan Padmanabhan
- Research Group: Computational Biology
- Office Location
- G.9816 URMC
V
Verostek Jr., Michael
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Profess Steve Manly and Ben Zwickl (RIT)
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- Bausch & Lomb Hall
Vizarreta, Renzo
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Chris Marshall
- Office Location
- Fermilab
Vuong, Quynh Huong
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Chris Marshall
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- 257 Bausch & Lomb Hall
W
Wadhurawa Mudiyanselage, Hiranya Pasan Vindana
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Prof. Gilbert Collins; Prof. Ryan Rygg
- Research Group: Experimental Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- 123 Hopeman
Walelign, Habitamu
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor John Nichol
- Research Group: Experimental Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- B08 Bausch and Lomb Hall
Wang, Zihao
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Machiel Blok
- Research Group: Quantum Information Science
- Office Location
- 453A Bausch & Lomb Hall
Watson, Carla (Clay)
they/them/theirs
- PhD Student, PASSAGE President, Awarded NSF GRFP - 2019
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Stephen Wu
- Research Group: Experimental Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- 609 Computer Science Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4001
Weight, Braden
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Pengfei “Frank” Huo
- Research Group: Non-adiabatic Quantum Evolution of Many-Body Systems and Light-Matter Interactions
- Office Location
- 430 Hutchison Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Wolfs, Jean
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Chris Marshall
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics
- Office Location
- 260 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Web Address
- Website
X
Xie, Songbo
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Professor Joseph Eberly
- Research Group: Theoretical Quantum Optics
- Office Location
- 322 Bausch and Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8543
- Web Address
- Website
Xu, Yang
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Robert Boyd
- Research Group: Optics
- Office Location
- 306 Wilmot
Y
Yanik, Kagan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2022
- Advisor: Andrew Jordan
- Office Location
- 325 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Ye, Feiyang
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor John Nichol
- Research Group: Experimental Condensed Matter
- Office Location
- B08 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Yeltokov, Alikhan
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Dan Bergstralh
- Research Group: Biological Physics
- Office Location
- Offsite
Young, James
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2018
- Advisor: Professor Pierre Gourdain
- Research Group: Plasma physics
- Office Location
- 471 Bausch and Lomb
Younis, Daniel H.
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2019
- Advisor: Professor Joseph Eberly
- Research Group: theoretical quantum optics
- Office Location
- 322 Bausch and Lomb
Yu, Yu-Heng
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2020
- Advisor: Professor Regina Demina
- Research Group: Experimental High Energy Physics/Cosmology
- Office Location
- CERN
Z
Zou, Yangyuxin (Amy)
- PhD Student
- Entry Year:2017
- Advisor: Petros Tzeferacos
- Research Group: Astrophysics
- Office Location
- 373 Bausch and Lomb Hall