Team

Our team has been supported by DOE Office of Science (ASCR, FES, ARDAP), LANL and SNL LDRDs, NSF, and Georgia Tech.

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Current members

Postdocs

• Allen Alvarez-Loya, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2022–present
  • Allen has been supported by NSF MPS-Ascend postdoc fellowship (DMS-2213261).
  • My role: mentor

Ph.D. students

• Alejo Ballester, School of CSE and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2025–present
  • Alejo earned his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Florida.
  • My role: advisor
• Rushan Zhang, School of CSE, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2025–present
  • Rushan earned his B.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering and B.S. in Computer Science from HKUST.
  • My role: advisor
• Manolis G. Drimalas, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 2024–present
  • Manolis has been supported by LANL LDRD CSES prgoram.
  • My role: co-advisor with Federico Fraschetti (Harvard, primary) and Chengkun Huang (LANL).
• Mandela B. Quashie, Department of CMSE, Michigan State University, 2023–present
  • Mandela has been supported by ASCR and LANL Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS).
  • My role: co-advisor with Andrew Christlieb (MSU, primary) and Josh Burby (UT-Austin).

Master's students

• Alexander de Magalhaes, School of CSE, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2025–present
  • Alex earned his B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University.
  • Alex has been supported by Georgia Tech OSPO.

Undergraduate students

• Jiya Varma, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2025–present
• Miles Hauck, Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2025–present

Student interns at LANL

• Leonardo Molinari, Graduate student from Emory University, summer 2025
• Jamar Sullivan, Postbac, summer 2025
• Christian Engman, Undergraduate student from Georgia Institute of Technology, summer 2025

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Former members

Postdocs

• Daniel Serino, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2022–2024
  • Current: Staff Scientist, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • My role: primary mentor
• Oleksii Beznosov, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2022–2025
  • Current: Staff Scientist, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • My role: co-mentor

Student interns mentored at LANL

• Manolis G. Drimalas, Graduate student from University of Arizona, 2024
• Mandela B. Quashie, Graduate student from Michigan State University (CNLS student fellow), summer 2024
• Shih-Hsin Wang, Graduate student from University of Utah, summer 2024
• Jack Coughlin, Graduate student from University of Washington, summer 2022
• Valentin Duruisseaux, Graduate student from University of California San Diego, summer 2022
• George Kevrekidis, Graduate student from Johns Hopkins University, summer 2022
• Matt Picklo, Graduate student from Colorado School of Mines (ISTI fellow), summer 2022
• Kyle Schwiebert, Graduate student from Michigan Tech University (NSF MSGI), 2022
• Boqian Shen, Graduate student from Rice University, summer 2021
• Mingchang Ding, Graduate student from University of Delaware, summer 2019
• Zhichao Peng, Graduate student from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, summer 2019
• Kai Huang, Graduate student from Michigan State University, summer 2019

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Postdoc collaborators at LANL

• Xuping Xie, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2022-2024
  • Current: Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
  • My role: informal co-mentor
• Zakariae Jorti, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2020-2023
  • Current: Senior R&D Engineer, Ansys
  • My role: informal co-mentor
• Shuang Liu, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2020
  • Current: Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
  • My role: informal co-mentor