Team
Our team has been supported by DOE Office of Science ASCR, FES and SciDAC programs, NNSA, DOE lab LDRDs, NSF, NASA, and Georgia Tech.
Current members
PhD students at GT
- Alejo Ballester, Physics and CSE, 2025–present
- Alejo earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering from University of Florida. Alejo will be a summer intern at LANL.
- My role: advisor
- Tage Burnett, CSE, 2025–present
- Tage earned his BS in ME from BYU. He has taken multiple interns at SNL and will be a summer intern at ORNL.
- Awards: GT President's Fellowship
- My role: advisor
- Harshavardhan Harish, CSE, 2025–present
- Harsha earned his BS in Math and Certificate in CSE from UT-Austin. He will be a summer intern at LANL.
- My role: advisor
- Alex Most, ML, 2026–present
- Alex earned his BS from Santa Clara and MS in Data Science from Montana State. He is a Post-Master at LANL.
- My role: advisor
- Ian Russel, CSE, 2026–present
- Alex earned his BS in CMDA from Virginia Tech. He is a Post-Bacc at LANL.
- Awards: GT President's Fellowship
- My role: advisor
- Rushan Zhang, CSE, 2025–present
- Rushan earned his BEng in AE and BS in CS from HKUST. He will be a visiting student at LBNL during the summer.
- My role: advisor
PhD students at other universities
- Emmanouil (Manolis) G. Drimalas, Physics, University of Arizona, 2024–present
- Manolis has taken multiple internships at LANL.
- My role: co-advisor with Federico Fraschetti (CfA at Harvard, primary)
- Mandela B. Quashie, Computational Math, Michigan State University, 2023–present
- Mandela has taken multiple internships at LANL.
- My role: co-advisor with Andrew Christlieb (MSU, primary)
Master's students at GT
- Alexander de Magalhaes, CSE, 2025–present
- Alex earned his B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University. He will be a summer intern at LANL.
- Awards: GT Spark Award
- Jiya Varma, CS, 2025–present
- Jiya earned her BS in CS at GT.
- Awards: President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA)
Undergraduate students at GT
- Elliot Day, Computer Science, 2026–present
- Miles Hauck, Electrical Engineering, 2025–present
- Connor Kelly, Nuclear Engineering, 2025–present
Student interns at LANL and GT
- Yicong (Eddy) Luo, PhD student from GT, summer 2026
- Christian Engman, UG student from GT, 2025–present
- Awards: DOE SULI fellowship
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
- 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
Student interns at GT
- Hao Wang, UG in Applied Math, 2025–2026
- Janani Murugan, UG in Biochemistry and CS, 2025–2026
- Saisruthi Bandla, MS in AE, summer 2025
Student interns at LANL
- Leonardo Molinari, Graduate student from Emory University, 2025–2026
- 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