Team

Our team has been supported by DOE Office of Science ASCR, FES and SciDAC programs, NNSA, LANL and SNL LDRDs, NSF, NASA, and Georgia Tech.

Current members

Alejo Ballester, School of CSE and School of Physics, Georgia Tech, 2025–present
- Alejo earned his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Florida.
- Alejo has been supported by Georgia Tech and ASCR.
- My role: advisor
Tage Burnett, School of CSE, Georgia Tech, 2025–present
- Tage earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University.
- Tage has been supported by Georgia Tech and NNSA.
- My role: advisor (co-advised with Spencer Bryngelson)
Harshavardhan Harish, School of CSE, Georgia Tech, 2025–present
- Harsha earned his B.S. in Math and Certificate in CSE from University of Texas at Austin.
- Harsha has been supported by Georgia Tech and ASCR.
- My role: advisor
Rushan Zhang, School of CSE, Georgia Tech, 2025–present
- Rushan earned his B.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering and B.S. in Computer Science from HKUST.
- Rushan has been supported by Georgia Tech.
- My role: advisor

Emmanouil (Manolis) G. Drimalas, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 2024–present
- Manolis has been supported by LANL LDRD and NASA.
- My role: co-advisor with Federico Fraschetti (CfA at 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).

Alexander (Alex) de Magalhaes, School of CSE, 2025–present
- Alex earned his B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University.
- Alex has been supported by Georgia Tech OSPO and ASCR.
- My role: thesis advisor

Leonardo (Leo) Molinari, Graduate student from Emory University, summer 2025
- Leo is supported by LANL LDRD CSES program.
Christian Engman, UG student from Georgia Tech, 2025-present
- Christian is supported by LANL LDRD through the inter-lab program.

Daniel Serino, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2022–2024
- Current: Staff Scientist, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- My role: primary mentor
Allen Alvarez-Loya, NSF MPS-Ascend postdoc fellowship, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2022–2025
- Current: ISTI postdoc fellow, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- My role: mentor
Oleksii Beznosov, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2022–2025
- Current: Staff Scientist, T-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- My role: co-mentor

Jamar Sullivan, Postbac, summer 2025
Emmanouil 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

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