This page has information about Yale Ph.D. alumni who completed their thesis work at Wright Lab from 2013 to the present.
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Alumni News
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Redondo commissioned as a US Navy officer at Yale ROTC ceremony
Yale recognized Air Force, Naval, and Army ROTC graduates who are now among the nation’s newest military officers.
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Congratulations to Wright Lab Class of 2026 graduates!
Wright Lab congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2026.
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Where engineering meets design
Wright Lab’s George Ploumis and Henry Kaplan designed an interactive sound installation for the Guggenheim museum as part of a Yale course.
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Thesis Defense News
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Xiran Bai successfully defends thesis, "Quantum Squeezing to Accelerate Axion Dark Matter Searches: From Demonstration to Broad Scan Range"
Bai’s thesis with the HAYSTAC experiment enabled broad range scans that go beyond just small-scale demonstrations.
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Arianna García Caffaro successfully defends thesis, "Probing the Higgs CP Structure in the H to tau tau Decay and Quantifying QCD Systematics in Machine Learning-Driven Jet Substructure Techniques"
García Caffaro implemented a new Neural Network-based observable that is preliminarily 40% more sensitive than previous measuring techniques.
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Sierra Cantway successfully defends thesis, "Probing jet hadrochemistry modification with measurements of identified particles in jets and the underlying event in pp and Pb–Pb collisions with ALICE"
Cantway’s thesis focuses on understanding the strong force, improving our understanding of jet-QGP interactions and hadronization.
