May 23, 2022
Wright Lab congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2022, including:
Ph.D. Graduates
- Emma Castiglia (advisor Sarah Demers), “Machine Learning for Tau Leptons and the Search for the Associated Production of a Higgs Boson with a Vector Boson, with the Higgs Boson Decaying to a Tau Pair at ATLAS”
- Emily Kuhn (advisor Laura Newburgh), “Calibration Instrumentation for the Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX)”
- Michael Oliver (advisor John Harris), “Measurement of Correlations Between Neutral Pions and Charged Hadrons in Heavy Ion Collisions with ALICE”
- David Stewart (advisor Helen Caines), “Jet to Event Activity Correlations in Small System Collisions at STAR”
- William Thompson (advisor Reina Maruyama), “Searching for Dark Matter with COSINE-100”
Undergraduates
- Matt King*+ (advisor Bonnie Fleming), “Measuring the Total Cross Section of Pion Absorption in Liquid Argon with the LArIAT Detector”
- Matthew Schneider (advisor Charles Baltay)
- Sarah Dickson*+ (advisor David Moore), “Detection of Whispering Gallery Modes in Optically-Levitated Microspheres”
- Charlie Mayhew*+(advisor David Moore)
- Yiming Zhang*+ (advisor Jack Harris), “Building a Optomechanical Platform for Eigenvalue Braids and Knots”
- Daniel Qenani*+ (advisor Keith Baker), “ Quantum K-Means Algorithm for Signal Processing of H → ZZ* → 4l as Proof of Quantum Entanglement
- Ema Smith (advisor Laura Newburgh)
- Andrew Zheng* (advisor Reina Maruyama), “CUORE/CUPID Muon Veto Prototypes Testing and Analysis”
We also congratulate the following graduating undergraduate students who have worked at Wright Lab as part of their academic journey:
- Luke Grossman*+ (worked with Charlie Baltay)
- Will Sun*+ (worked with Jack Harris)
- Sebastian Tsai* (worked with Laura Newburgh)
- Jean Wang *+(worked with Reina Maruyama)
- Laura Zhou*+ (worked with Reina Maruyama)
- Grace Zdeblick*+
* indicates distinction in the major
+indicates induction into SPS