Current Students

Undergraduate

• Athena Angara Undergraduate Research Assistant [DAIMSEL, Digital Isotope]
• Elizabeth Cardoso Undergraduate Research Assistant [Sage NDC-C]
• Michael Cortez Undergraduate Research Assistant [Sage NDC-C]
• Samuel Effendy Undergraduate Research Assistant [High Performance Computing and AI]
• Ricky Massa Undergraduate Research Assistant [Sage NDC-C, Genius]
• Om Patel Undergraduate Research Assistant [Sage NDC-C]
• Aaqel Shaik Undergraduate Research Assistant [Sage NDC-C, Genius]
• Brian Ta Undergraduate Research Assistant [Cosmology Portal]

Graduate

• Idunnuoluwa Adeniji [PhD Student] [Scientific Visualization and Advanced Rendering]
• Hal Brynteson [BS 2022 (NIU), MS Student] Graduate Research Assistant [DAIMSEL, Digital Isotope]
• Andrew Burks [PhD Student] [co-Advisor with Andy Johnson]
• Amy Byrnes [MS 2025, PhD Student] \(C^2\) the \(P^2\) Fellow
• Greg Cross [PhD Student] [co-Advised with Dan Schonfeld]
• Revathi Dhotre [MS Student] Graduate Research Assistant [Cosmology Portal]
• Carla Floricel [PhD Student]
• Chris Grams [BS 2023, MS 2024, PhD Student] [co-Advised with Yu (Tom) Gao]
• Sreten Kljaic [BS 2023, MS Student] \(C^2\) the \(P^2\) Fellow
• Hemalatha Ningappa Kondakundi [MS Student] Graduate Research Assistant [DAIMSEL, Digital Isotope]
• Shreyas Kulkarni [PhD Student] [co-Advisor with Andy Johnson]
• Yash Kurkure [BS, MS 2023, PhD Student] Graduate Research Assistant
• Wesley Kwiecinski [BS 2023 (NIU), MS Student] \(C^2\) the \(P^2\) Fellow
• JD Pirtle [PhD Student in Education] Graduate Research Assistant [Sage NDC-C]
• Jyotsna Rajaraman [PhD Student] Graduate Research Assistant
• Zhong Zheng [PhD Student] [co-Advisor with Zhiling Lan]

Postdoc

• Shilpika^*

Alumni

Undergraduate

• Kofi Adu-Gyan (Northern Illinois University)
• Abdullah Ali (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Lindsay Arnold^* (University of Chicago)
• Yassir Atlas (University of Illinois Chicago - Early Research Scholar)
• James Bonasera (Northern Illinois University)
• Michael Brizic^* (University of Chicago)
• Emily Brown (Northern Illinois University) BS 2022
• Joe Brynteson (Northern Illinois University)
• Anthony Bucaro^* (Northern Illinois University)
• Chris Cope^* (University of Chicago)
• Justin Derus (Northern Illinois University) BS 2022
• Ojas DhiYogi (Northern Illinois University)
• Julia Finegan (Northern Illinois University)
• Tommy Franczak (Northern Illinois University)
• Fatima Mora Garcia (University of Illinois Chicago - Early Research Scholar)
• Gennette Gill^* (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
• Mason Greig (Northern Illinois University)
• Joseph Hale (Northern Illinois University)
• Kaitlyn Hwang^* (University of Chicago)
• Fatima Jassim (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Ryan Jeziorski (Northern Illinois University)
• Alina Kanayinkal^* (University of St. Thomas)
• Joe Katula (Northern Illinois University)
• May Khine (Northern Illinois University)
• Rob Kondratowiz (Northern Illinois University)
• Wesley Kwiecinski (Northern Illinois University) BS 2022
• Angelo LeDonne^* (Northern Illinois University)
• Joe Lenz (Northern Illinois University)
• Aakash Lilaramani (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Francisco Lozano (Northern Illinois University) BS 2022
• Matthew McCrory^* (North Central College)
• Gio Moscato (Northern Illinois University)
• Connor Murphy^* (Northern Illinois University) BS 2022
• Sarah Osentoski^* (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
• Joseph Paris^* (North Central College)
• Danny Patel (Northern Illinois University)
• Michael Pellegrino^* (Indiana Institute of Technology)
• Franny Plagwitz (Northern Illinois University)
• Nestor Alvarez Popoca^* (Northern Illinois University)
• Ivan Popov (Northern Illinois University)
• Alexander Rojas (Northern Illinois University)
• Matt Rycraft (Northern Illinois University)
• Ivan Sanchez (Northern Illinois University)
• Pambayun Savira^* (University of St. Thomas)
• Renee Sonntag (Northern Illinois University) BS 2021
• Seyfal Sultanov (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Matthew Swed (Northern Illinois University)
• Myrline Sylveus (Northern Illinois University)
• Enkhamgalan Tamillow (Northern Illinois University) BS 2021
• Nazariy Tishchenko (Northern Illinois University)
• Alex Wills (Northern Illinois University) BS 2018
• Joycelyn Wirata (University of Illinois Chicago - Early Research Scholar)
• Mariium Yousuf (Northern Illinois University) BS 2017
• Lila Zayed (Northern Illinois University) BS 2022

Graduate

• Stephen Beck^* (Northern Illinois University)
• Marco Bonafini (University of Illinois Chicago) [co-Advisor with Ian Kash]
• Huy Bui^* (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Priyanjani Chandra (Northern Illinois University) MS 2020
• Matteo Del Grossi (University of Illinois Chicago) MS 2023 [co-Advised with Ian Kash]
• Yuping Fan (Illinois Institute of Technology) PhD 2021 [co-Advised with Zhiling Lan]
• Cole Freeman (Northern Illinois University)
• Leopold Grinberg^* (Brown University)
• Justin Hensley^* (University of Utah)
• Edward Kahler^* (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Bharat Kale (Northern Illinois University) MS 2018, PhD 2023 [co-Advised with Maoyuan Sun]
• Vennela Kilaru (Northern Illinois University)
• Ryan Lewis (Northern Illinois University) BS 2019, MS 2021
• Boyang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology) PhD 2023 [co-Advised with Zhiling Lan]
• Saurav Mukhopadhyay (Northern Illinois University)
• Isaac Nealey^* (University of California San Diego)
• Jason Ortiz^* (University of Central Florida)
• Mrinal Roy (Northern Illinois University) MS 2019
• Ankita Upadhyay (Northern Illinois University) MS 2019
• Vamshi Vhakrala (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Sean Wallace (Illinois Institute of Technology) PhD 2017 [co-Advised with Zhiling Lan]
• Adam Young (Northern Illinois University) MS 2015

Postbac

• Sreten Kljaic^* (2023) University of Illinois Chicago
• Wesley Kwiecinski^* (2023 - 2024) University of Illinois Chicago

Predoc

• Yash Kurkure^* (2023 - 2024) University of Illinois Chicago
• Eric Olson^* (2002 - 2005) Workiva
• Tushar Udeshi^* (1999 - 2000) Google

Postdoc

• Aaron Knoll^* (2010 - 2012) Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
• Xinlian Liu^* (2001 - 2002) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• Tommy Marrinan^* (2015 - 2017) St. Thomas University
• Khairi Reda^* (2014 - 2016) Indiana University - Indianapolis
• Venkatram Vishwanath^* (2009 - 2011) Argonne National Laboratory
• Zhongkai Wen [with Ian Kash]

^* Argonne National Laboratory