Arnold Chan is a PhD candidate at Northwestern in the Department of Chemistry.

Arnold’s research is about observing the dynamics of protein and nucleic acid structural motifs. Arnold couples lasers perturbations with time-delayed X-ray scattering pulses to gather snapshots of model biochemical systems as they evolve in time. He then utilizes molecular dynamics simulations to generate atomistic resolution mechanisms of these systems.

Deanna DiMonte is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

She has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Deanna is a member of the Image and Video Processing Lab. Her current research is using machine learning for brain segmentation of MRIs from stroke patients.

Vinh Dinh is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Physics.

Vinh is originally from Vietnam and received their MPhys Physics degree from University of St Andrews (UK) in 2019. Vinh is working on Optimal Control for Quantum Computing.

Ali is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Physics. She does research with Monica Olvera de la Cruz. Ali uses molecular dynamics simulations to better understand assembly of soft matter and biophysical systems.

Igor is a Ph.D student in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Igor earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Geophysics from Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Brazil.

His research is related to data-driven geophysics and computer modelling in Earth Science. He is currently working on a 3D model for the Midcontinent Rift based on gravity and seismic data from Superior Rifting EarthScope Experiment with Professor Suzan van der Lee.

He is also working on modelling a possible cause of earthquakes based on subsidence of the ground level due to gas exploration in the Netherlands with Professor Giuseppe Buscarnera from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

He received his Bachelor’s of Science in Nuclear Engineering in 2011, as well as a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering.

He currently works with Professor Mel Ulmer on Stable Membrane Candidate for Deployable Membrane Space Telescopes. He also works as a trainee with Professor Michael Schmitt on CMS, calculating Z Boson’s Mass with high precision.

Cole is a Ph.D student in the Physics and Astronomy Department, studying Physics.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota.

Cole joined Michael Schmitt’s group at Northwestern in 2018. He is working on the Mu2e, or muon-to-electron conversion, experiment at the Fermilab.
Cole is working on modeling the magnetic field in the detector and calibrating the Hall probes that will be used to measure this field. He also plans to study the forbidden muon-to-positron conversion process.

Chase is a Ph.D. student in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University.

He works on gravitational wave astrophysics and the modeling of compact binaries.

Guoping is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University.

He works on establishing a computational methodology based on polymerization reactions happening inside of droplets, and he is interested in studying and predicting the properties of polymer materials on microfluidic devices with deep learning.

Haoxiang Li is a graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Emily Ma is a PhD candidate at Northwestern in the Department of Chemistry.

Renée is a Ph.D student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. She is a member of the Figueroa-Feliciano Research Group, working on Micro-X and studying supernova remnants to help look for keV dark matter as well as design new detectors for future Micro-X flights.

Ally is a PhD student and graduate worker studying Learning Sciences in the School of Education and Social Policy. She is a research assistant and collaborator with the Technology, Race, Ethics and Equity in Education (TREE) Lab, led by Dr. Sepehr Vakil and Dr. Sarah Van Wart. Together with the TREE Lab, her work aims to disentangle the complex sociopolitical and ethical dimensions of ed-tech and other technologies in learning spaces. Looking forward, her dissertation work will explore what school districts mean (and what implications persist) when they describe decision-making as “data-driven”, and how data, broadly construed, is conceptualized, operationalized, and politicized in schools.

Ally is also an active member of Northwestern Graduate Workers, as well as the Office of Equity Student Advisory Board and Northwestern’s Community Safety Advisory Board.

Monica Rizzo is a Ph.D student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
She graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics from the Rochester Institute of Technology

Monica is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration; She studies the properties compact binaries using inferences made via gravitational wave detections. Monica is also involved in developing and improving gravitational wave data analysis pipelines.

Candice is a Ph.D student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

She studies supernovae and other transients. Currently, her project is on the deep X-ray and radio limite of Type Iax supernova, SN 2014dt.

Lin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at Northwestern University.

She works on designing optical functional meta-materials with DNA-programmable assembly techniques, which serve as building blocks for constructing optical nanodevices and all-optical integrated circuits.

Learn more about Lin’s research.

Ziwei is a Ph.D student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

He has a Bachelor’s of Science and a Master’s of Science in Mechanics from Beijing Institute of Technology. He is a Ph.D. candidate in O.Balogun’s group.
Research: Generally, my research is studying elastic wave propagation in solids. Now, I am working on a project to design phononic structures at the microscale to tailor the elastic wave propagation and to realize high-efficient waveguide, filters, and sensors.

Jean Weill is a Ph.D student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, studying Theoretical Particle Physics.

Jean is currently working under Professor Andre de Gouvea on theoretical neutrino physics.

He is focusing on neutrino oscillations, the mechanism behind non-zero neutrino masses, and the neutrino masshierarchy problem. Jean is learning the theory to be able to tackle these problems.