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Current Members


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Justin C. Burton
Winship Distinguished Research Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2006
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curriculum vitae

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Schuyler Arn
Lab Manager, Research Scientist
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Alex Vargas
Graduate Student
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Wei-Chih Li
Graduate Student

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Chung Hao Chen
Graduate Student (co-advised with Jennifer Rieser)

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Wambui Ngugi
Undergraduate Student

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Ashton Parker
Undergraduate Student
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Ranjiangshang Ran
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2023

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Wenting Cheng
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology
, 2022
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Michelle Wang
Graduate Student
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Zhicheng Shu
Graduate Student
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Leon Palacio-Rangel
Graduate Student

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Avery Dolins
Undergraduate Student

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Kirby Wilkerson
Undergraduate Student (GATech)

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Summer 2021
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Summer 2024
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Summer 2025

Alumni


​Tabitha Watson - Undergraduate student, now at University of Michigan
Mica Einhorn - Undergraduate student
Wentao Yu - Graduate student, now postdoc at CalTech
Nia Smith - Undergraduate student, now at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Derrick Rodriguez - Undergraduate student

Kavinda Nissanka - Graduate student
Mingxuan Liu - Graduate student, University of Michigan
Nandish Vora - Graduate student, University of Pennsylvania
Dana Harvey - Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Yannic Gagnon - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division

Jonathan Cho - Undergraduate student
Jake McGrath III - Graduate student, University of Texas, Austin
Ana Zaalishvili - Graduate student, Duke University
Guram Gogia - ETH (Zurich, postdoc)
Brady Wu - Graduate student, University of Chicago Physics
​Tianshu Huang - Graduate student, Yale Applied Physics
Joshua Méndez Harper - Research Scientist, University of Oregon 
Ainsley Stanczak -  Technical Solutions Engineer,  Epic
Xinyi Jiang - Software Engineer at Verint
Devon Becker - Gallery Assistant, Whitespace Gallery
Asher Mouat - Georgia Tech (graduate student)
Dominic Robe - Monash University (postdoc)
Xiaolei Ma - University of Minnesota (postdoc)
Nicholas Cuccia - Harvard University, graduate student in SEAS
Lia Benes - Northwestern University School of Medicine
Justin Pye - SciHub, University of Arizona
Clay Wood - Department of Geosciences, Penn State
Jiaqi Zheng - M.Sc. (2016). Currently at Ohio State University
​Stephen Frazier - M.Sc. (2016). Currently at SunFarm Energy
Janna Lowensohn - Brandeis University
Toyin Thompson - Emory University
Juan-José Liétor-Santos - Physical Review (assistant editor)
Rui Wu - New York University
Shivanee Persuad - University of Georgia
Lynn Kaluzienski - University of Maine
Tanaka Sakuringwa - Spelman College
Satwik Nandala - Georgia Tech
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