Team: Trainees

Meet the Trainees

Undergraduate
Jack Rodgers
Physics and Astronomy
Purdue University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics
Undergraduate
Jiuyang Lyu
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development
Graduate Student
Jason Weitz
Physics
University of California, San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware and Algorithm
Undergraduate
Seiya Tsukamoto
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development, Multi-messenger Astrophysics, High Energy Physics
Graduate Student
Olivia Weng
Computer Science and Engineering
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development
Graduate Student
Hao Fang
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Systems Neuroscience / Neuro AI, Hardware and Algorithm Co-development
Graduate Student
Zihan Zhao
Physics
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics
Graduate Student
Mingfei Chen
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Systems Neuroscience / Neuro AI, Hardware and Algorithm Codevelopment
Graduate Student
Haoyang (Billy) Li
Physics
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Multi-messenger Astrophysics, Hardware and Algorithm, Targeted Systems, Heterogenous systems, Systems Neuroscience / Neuro AI
Graduate Student
Rafia Omer
Physics
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Postdoc
Christina Reissel
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
MIT
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Graduate Student
Trung Le
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Systems Neuroscience / Neuro AI
Graduate Student
Haoran Zhao
Department of Physics
University of Washington
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Heterogenous systems
Graduate Student
Eli Chien
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development
Graduate Student
Noah Paladino
Physics
MIT
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware and Algorithm, Heterogenous systems
Undergraduate
Holton Griffin
Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development, Multi-messenger Astrophysics, Systems Neuroscience / Neuro AI
Undergraduate
Emma de Bruin
Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development, Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Affiliated Graduate Student
Alexander Migala
Physics
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Codevelopment
Affiliated Postdoc
Peter Meiring
Physics (Nuclear and Particle Physics)
Carnegie Mellon University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics
Graduate Student
Daniel Warshofsky
Astronomy
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development, Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Undergraduate
Dmitri Demler
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: I am developing an automated pipeline that selects optimal neural network architectures for physics applications based on specific computational and performance requirements.
Undergraduate
Ravi Kumar
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Interest areas: I am working on Simulation Based Inference (SBI) for Parameter Estimation (PE) of Gravitational Waves (GW) generated from binary coalesces of compact objects (Black Holes, Neutron Stars).
Graduate Student
Atharva Mattam
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Interest areas: Hetereogenous system, Hardware and Algorithm
Graduate Student
Miles Cochran-Branson
Department of Physics
University of Washington
Interest areas: Hetereogenous system, High Energy Physics
Affiliated Graduate Student
Haoyi (Kenny) Jia
Department of Physics
Stanford University/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware and Algorithm
Undergraduate
Advaith Anand
Physics
University of Washington
Interest areas: HEP, Machine Learning, Algorithms
Postbac
Alexandra Junell Brown
Department of Physics
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Affiliated Graduate Student
Sukanya Krishna
Harvard University
Interest areas: Algorithms, Machine Learning, Biosystems, NeuroAI
Graduate Student
Joshua Queen
Physics
Duke University
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Graduate Student
Ziang Yin
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware and Algorithm, NeuroAI
Affiliated Graduate Student
Max Cohen
Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
Interest areas: High Energy Physics
Postdoc
Janina Hakenmueller
Department of Physics
Duke University
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astronomy, High Energy physics, Data analysis
Postdoc
Daniel Diaz
Department of Physics
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware
Postdoc
Melissa Quinnan
Department of Physics
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware
Postdoc
Garyfallia (Lisa) Paspalaki
Department of Physics
Purdue University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithms
Postdoc
Katya Govorkova
MIT Kavli Institute
Interest areas: Particle physics, Gravitational Wave data analysis, Machine Learning
Postbac
Kira Nolan
Department of Astronomy, California Institue of Technology
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astronomy
Postbac
Lucie Afko
Duke University Physics Department
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Multi-messenger Astronomy
Postbac
Jada Marshall
Purdue University, Biomedical Engineering
Interest areas: Neuroscience
Postbac
Malina Desai
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Undergraduate
Megan Averill
Department of Physics
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Postdoc
Yulei Zhang
Department of Physics
University of Washington
Interest areas: High Energy Physics
Postdoc
Yao Yao
Department of Physics at Purdue University
Interest areas: HEP, Hetereogenous sys.
Graduate Student
Waiz Khan
University of Washington
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development
Postdoctoral Scholar
Yuan-Tang Chou
Department of Physics
University of Washington
Interest areas: High Energy Physics
Postdoc
Yue Xu
Department of Physics
University of Washington
Interest areas: High Energy Physics
Affiliated Graduate Student
Zachary Baldwin
Carnegie Mellon University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Machine Learning
Postdoc
Elham E Khoda
Department of Physics
University of Washington (Seattle)
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithms
Postdoc
Patrick McCormack
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
MIT
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithms
Postbac
Rian Flynn
Department of Physics
Purdue University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware and Algorithm, Targeted systems
Undergraduate
Andrew Lange
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: I am researching binary black hole mergers with the ML4GW team.
Postdoc
Leo Scholl
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Neuroscience, Brain computer interfaces
Postdoc
Jan-Frederik Schulte
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Purdue University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithms, Hardware
Postdoc
Brian F Healy
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astronomy, Machine Learning, Algorithms
Graduate Student
Hanchen Ye
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interest areas: High-level Synthesis, Hardware Acceleration, Compiler
Affiliated Graduate Student
Erdem Yigit Ertorer
Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware and Algorithm, Machine Learning
Affiliated Graduate Student
Sonata Simonaitis-Boyd
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
University of California, San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Machine Learning
Affiliated Graduate Student
Daniel Gaytan Villarreal
Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Machine Learning
Graduate Student
Raghav Kansal
Department of Physics
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithms
Graduate Student
Farouk Mokhtar
Department of Physics
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithms
Graduate Student
Anthony Aportela
Department of Physics
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware
Affiliated Graduate Student
Chia-En Chang
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Codevelopment
Graduate Student
Selwyn Reis Gomes
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: Machine Learning, Algorithms, Hardware
Postdoc
Muhammed Saleem Cholayil
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Undergraduate
Andy Meza
Computer Science and Engineering
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development
Graduate Student
Yilin Shen
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development
Graduate Student
Alex Schuy
Department of Physics
University of Washington
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithms
Graduate Student
Rajeev Botadra
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Interest areas: NeuroAI
Graduate Student
Xiaohan Liu
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Hardware, Algorithms
Undergraduate
Zhi-Xing (Ethan) Jiang
UW ECE
Interest areas: HEP, HAC
Affiliate Postdoc
Sagar Addepalli
FPD/ATLAS
SLAC
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware and Algorithm
Graduate Student
Caroline Johnson
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development
Graduate Student
Pranav Murali
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Interest areas: Targeted System
Graduate Student
Jeffery Xu
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Hardware, Algorithms
Graduate Student
Seungbin Park
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
Interest areas: Brain-Computer Interface
Graduate Student
Eric A. Moreno
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Anomaly detection, Graph Neural Networks, Gravitational Waves
Graduate Student
Jeffrey Krupa
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
MIT
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithms, Distributed Computing
Graduate Student
Simon Rothman
Department of Physics
MIT
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Machine Learning, Heterogeneous Computing
Graduate Student
SangEon Park
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithm
Graduate Student
Megan Lipton
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
Interest areas: Brain Computer Interfaces
Graduate Student
Siqi Miao
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm
Graduate Student
Rongzhe Wei
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
Interest areas: Machine Learning Theory
Graduate Student
Jialiang (Tim) Zhang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interest areas: High Level Synthesis, Compiler
Graduate Student
Shikun Liu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Interest areas: Algorithm
Graduate Student
Joshua Henry Peterson
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astrophysics, Hardware and Algorithms
Graduate Student
Will Benoit
Department of Physics
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: Gravitational Waves, Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Graduate Student
Andrew Toivonen
Department of Astrophysics
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: Gravitational Waves, Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Graduate Student
Jingyuan Li
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Machine Leanring, Computational Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Gregory Jun
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interest areas: High-level Synthesis, Hardware Acceleration, compilers
Graduate Student
Matthew Trahms
UW ECE
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Co-development, High Energy Physics
Graduate Student
Vidhi Desai
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Hardware, Algorithms
Graduate Student
Dewen Zhong
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Machine Learning
Graduate Student
Jared Burleson
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Machine Learning
PhD
Michael Nolan
UW ECE
Interest areas: Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Ethan Marx
MIT Kavli Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interest areas: Gravitational Wave Data Analysis, Machine Learning
Undergraduate
Aidan Yokuda
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: Hardware, Algorithms
Undergraduate
James Shen
Duke Physics
Interest areas: Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Undergraduate
Yihui Chen (Andrew)
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Washington
Interest areas: Algorithms, Machine Learning
Undergraduate
Benjamin Simon
Department of Physics
Purdue University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Algorithms
Undergraduate
Matt Wilkinson
University of Washington
Interest areas: Machine learning, hardware
Undergraduate
Jinglin Li
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: I work as an open-source software developer for Skyportal, a platform designed to facilitate real-time data analysis of transient astronomical events.
Undergraduate
Nicolo’ Ghielmetti
Department of Electronic, Information and Bioengineering
Polytechnic of Milan
Interest areas: Machine Learning, Hardware Acceleration, High Level Synthesis
Undergraduate
Donovan Clay
University of Washington
Interest areas: I am working on the HLS4ML team at UW. We research implementing neural networks in hardware on FPGAs. The inference speed of models in hardware is significantly faster than software.
Affiliated Undergraduate Student
Michael Hemmett
Westmont College
Interest areas: My current research focuses on high energy physics through my involvement with the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
Undergraduate
Cristina Andrade
Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics
Interest areas: My primary research project focused on optimizing the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's kilonova detection capabilities by analyzing LSST cadences and filter selections.
Affiliated Graduate Student
Chi-Jui Chen
College of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Codevelopment, High Energy Physics, Multi-messenger Astrophysics, Systems Neuroscience / Neuro AI
Undergraduate
Subash Katel
Computer Science
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: Heterogeneous system, High Energy Physics
Postbac
Abby Gray
University of Minnesota
Interest areas: Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Postbac
Andy Skivington
University of California San Diego
Interest areas: High Energy Physics
Postbac
Van Tha Bik Lian
Duke University
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Postbac
Lauren Peterson
University of Washington
Interest areas: Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Andrew Wildridge
Physics and Astronomy
Purdue University
Interest areas: Hardware and Algorithm Codevelopment, High Energy Physics, Heterogenous systems
Undergraduate
Pujan Patel
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Washington
Interest areas: High Energy Physics, Hardware and Algorithm, Heterogenous system
Affiliated Undergraduate Student
Mariel Peczak
Carnegie Mellon University
Interest areas: I am currently working to improve data reduction in the Compact Muon Solenoid online data filter system through the application of machine learning to optimize data compression through the use of conditional autoencoder algorithms.