Research Team

Faculty

• K.S. Babu, Regents Professor
• Vedran Brdar, Assistant Professor
• Dorival Gonçalves, Associate Professor
• Joe Haley, Professor
• Sasha Khanov, Professor
• Flera Rizatdinova, Department Head and Professor

 

Postdocs

Theory

• Dibya S. Chattopadhyay, Postdoctoral Fellow

Experiment

• Yanhui Ma, Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Graduate Students

Theory

• Murshed Alam
• Sumit Biswas
• Ajay Kaladharan
• Samiur Mir
• Alberto Navarro
• Sai Charan Sekar

Experiment

• Zackary Alegria
• Soumyananda Goswami
• Luke Vaughan
• Saad Mohiuddin
• Shivang Patel
• Derrick Allen
• Hector Verduzco Acevedo
• Nathan Vincent May

 

Undergraduate Students

Experiment

 

Staff

• Blake Beauchamp, Engineer
• Steven Welch, Engineer
• Jacob Edwin Crosby, Engineer

 

NSF Summer REU Students

Undergraduate

 

2025

• Samantha King
• Susan Novak

2021

• Gage Erwin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
• Lily Daneshmand, Marietta College, OH

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Research Team Alumni

Former Postdoc Researchers

Theory

• Rahool Kumar Barman, Ph.D.
• Akanksha Bhardwaj, Ph.D.
• Kirtiman Ghosh, Ph.D.
• Tathagata Ghosh, Ph.D.
• Ilia Gogoladze, Ph.D.
• Cosmin Macesanu, Ph.D.
• Yukihiro Mimura, Ph.D.
• Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Ph.D.
• Santosh Rai, Ph.D.
• Zurab Tavartkiladze, Ph.D.
• Jeff Woodside, Ph.D.
• Yongcheng Wu, Ph.D.

Experiment

• Nicolas Bousson, Ph.D.
• Angela Maria Burger, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at Laborartoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Josu Cantero Garcia, Ph.D.
• Vallary Shashikant Bhopatkar, Ph.D.
• David Jamin, Ph.D.
• Jie Yu, Ph.D.

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Former Visiting Faculty

• Saki Khan, Ph.D.
• Shaikh Saad, Ph.D.
• Tibor Torma, Ph.D.

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Former Graduate Students

Theory

• Roshan Abraham, Ph.D.
• Abdelhamid Albaid, Ph.D.
• Cyril Anoka, Ph.D.
• Abdel Bachri, Ph.D.
• Geraldine Cabrera
• Shreyashi Chakdar, Ph.D.
• Ritu Dcruz, Ph.D.
• Daniel Dumitru, M.S.
• Bhaskar Dutta, Ph.D.
• Tsedenbaljir Enkhbat, Ph.D.
• Steven Gabriel, Ph.D.
• Reema Ghavi, M.S.
• Steve Gibbons, Ph.D.
• Benjamin Grossman, Ph.D.
• Jack Huesman, M.S.
• Sudip Jana, Ph.D.
• Wang Kai, M.S.
• Durmus Karabacak, Ph.D.
• Chris McMullen, Ph.D.
• Yangzhi Meng, Ph.D.
• Ayon Patra, Ph.D.
• Corneliu Rujoiu, Ph.D.
• Eric Steinfelds, Ph.D.
• Mingxian Su, Ph.D.
• Anil Thapa, Ph.D.
• Shiryuan Xu, Ph.D.

Experiment

• Babak Abi, Ph.D.
• Egor Antipov, Ph.D.
• Hatim Hegab, Ph.D.
• Wasikul Islam, Ph.D.
• Dmitri Sidorov, Ph.D.
• Madhuranga Thilakasiri, Ph.D.
• Julio Julio, Ph.D.
• Vishnu Kovilakam, Ph.D.
• David Muller, Ph.D.
• Zeke Murdock, Ph.D.
• Steve Narf, M.S.
• Joshua Stewart, Ph.D.
• Evan Van de Wall, Ph.D.
• Jacob Edwin Crosby, Ph.D.
• Calvin Ainsworth, M.S.

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Former Undergraduate Students

Theory

• Stephen Johnston, Senior Thesis
• Andrew Noel
• Dutch Ratcliffe, Senior Thesis

Experiment

• Gregory Beauregard
• Dustin Carr, Senior Thesis
• Todd Edmonds
• David Mayes
• Allison Muchiri
• Leland Palmer
• Cameron Racz
• Dillon Williams