PI: Prof. Daisuke Nagai

Departments of Physics & Astronomy

Yale University


Postdoctoral Associates

Dr. Priyanka Singh (Yale 2021-2023: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Indor, India)

Dr. Michael Tremmel (Yale 2017-2022: Assistant Professor, University College Cork, UK)

Dr. Nir Mandelker (Yale 2016-2020: Assistant Professor, Hebrew University, Israel)

Dr. Andrew Hearin (Yale 2014-2017: Physicist, Argonne National Lab)

Dr. Erwin Lau (Yale 2011-2017: Research Scientist, Harvard SAO)

Dr. Andrew Wetzel (Yale 2011-2013: Associate Professor, UC Davis)

Dr. Suman Bhattacharya (Argonne National Lab 2011-2014: Senior Data Scientist, Uber)

Dr. Suchetana Chatterjee (Yale 2009-2012: Assistant Professor, Presidency University, India)

Dr. Douglas Rudd (Yale 2010-2012: Data Scientist, Stitch Fix)

Dr. Laurie Shaw (Yale 2009-2012: Research Associate, Harvard)

Dr. Zheng Zheng (Yale 2009-2011: Professor, U.Utah)


Graduate Students (Ph.D)

Isabel Medlock (Yale Astronomy 2021-Present)

Naomi Gluck (Yale Physics 2021-Present)

Han Aung (Yale Physics Ph.D. 2021: Zuckerman Postdoc Scholar, Hebrew University)

Urmila Chadayammuri (Yale Astronomy Ph.D. 2021: Associate Editor, Nature)

Camille Avestruz (Yale Physics Ph.D. 2015: Assistant Professor, U.Michigan)

Kaylea Nelson (Yale Astronomy Ph.D. 2015: Director of FAS Research Computing, Yale)


Graduate Students (Pre-Candidacy Projects)

Anran Jiao (Yale S&DS 2025-Present)

Max Lovig (Yale S&DS 2023-2025)

Chloe Neufeld (Yale Astronomy 2023-2025)

Iver Warburton (Yale Astronomy 2022-2025)

Zehao Dou (Yale S&DS 2022-2023)

Sheridan Green (Yale Physics 2017-2020)

Joshua Burt (Yale Physics 2014-2015)

Sarah Benjamin (Yale Astronomy 2013-2015)

Tonima Tasnim Ananna (Yale Physics 2014)

Benjamin Elder (Yale Physics 2012-2013)

Duncan Campbell (Yale Astronomy 2012-2013)

Allison Merritt (Yale Astronomy 2012)

Maria Jose Maureira (Yale Astronomy 2011-2012)

Luis Vargas (Yale Astronomy 2010-2011)

Adele Plunkett (Yale Astronomy 2009-2010)

Ngoc Nhung Ho (Yale Astronomy 2008-2009)


Undergraduate Students

Din-Ammar Tolj (Yale 2023-2025)

Tristan Weaver (Yale 2023-2024)

Juliana Karp (Yale 2023-2024)

Oliver Lin (Yale 2023-2024)

Daniel Chang (Yale 2023-2024)

Finn Gibson (Yale 2023)

Billy Kline (Yale 2023: MIT)

KJ McConnell (Yale 2022-2024)

Noam Scully (Yale 2022)

Kevin Hu (Yale 2022)

Mehika Patel (Yale 2022)

Julia de los Reyes (Yale 2022)

Amanda Butler (Yale 2021-2022: NVIDIA)

Ryan Flynn (Yale 2021-2022: Boston University)

Agastya Rana (Yale 2021-2022)

Danny Farid (Yale 2020-2023: SpaceX)

Tibor Rothschild (Yale 2020-Present)

Dash Stevanovich (Yale 2020-2023: U. Minnesota)

Jack Ross (Yale 2019-2020)

Keshav Raghavan (Yale 2019-2022: U.Cambridge)

Luis F. Machado P. V. (Yale 2016-2018: ETH, Zurich)

Emil Ohman (Yale 2016-2017: U.Oxford)

Mari Kawakatsu (Yale 2016-2017: Princeton)

Julia Menzel (Yale 2016: U.Cambridge/MIT)

Maya Fishbach (Yale 2013-2015: U.Chicago)

Christopher Cappiello (Yale 2013-2015: Ohio State)

Liang Yu (Yale 2012-2014: MIT)

Hendrik Kits van Heyningen (Yale 2013-2014: PILYTIX)

Wonyong Chung (Yale 2013: Princeton)

Ian Vorbach (Yale 2012: Stanford)

Elliy Peng (Yale 2011-2012: U.Paris Sud)

Daniel Steinbrook (Yale 2011-2012)

Pearson Miller (Yale 2010-2012: MIT)

Michael Laskin (Yale 2011: U.Chicago)

Frank Thompson (Yale 2011)

Nicolas Aldana (Yale 2011)

Daksha Rajagopalan (Yale 2010: Aberystwyth)

Jonathan Richardson (Yale 2009-2011: U.Chicago)

Joshua Schoenfield (Yale 2009-2010: UCLA)

Katherine Rosenfeld (Yale 2009-2010: Harvard)

Adam Solomon (Yale 2009-2010: U.Cambridge)

Jason Kaufman (Yale 2008-2009: UC Santa Barbara)

Sam Post (Yale 2008-2009: Northwestern)

Yulia Kuznetsova (Caltech 2007-2008: UC San Diego)

Group Members