Graduate Students

Most graduate students are based at IfA Mānoa, located in the city of Honolulu on the island of O‘ahu. Some are located on the neighbor islands, at our IfA Hilo and IfA Maui locations.

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Alexa Anderson Graduate Student

Ph.D. Topic: Looking Inward: M-band Spectroscopy of Protoplanetary Disks
Committee Chair: Jonathan Williams
IfA Mānoa, B-101

Connor Auge Graduate Student

IfA Mānoa

Casey Brinkman NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Ph.D. Topic: Understanding the Diversity of Rocky Planet Compositions, and their Connection to Host Star Abundances
Committee Chair: Dan Huber
IfA Mānoa
Ph.D. Topic: Understanding the Diversity of Rocky Planet Compositions, and their Connection to Host Star Abundances

Erica Bufanda PhD Candidate, Soroptimist Fellow

Ph.D. Topic: Vehicles to the Past: Characterizing the Activity of Long Period Comets
Committee Chair: Karen Meech
IfA Mānoa

Mitchell Dennis Graduate Student

IfA Mānoa, B101

Dhvanil Desai Graduate Student

IfA Mānoa, C-216A

Aaron Do Graduate Student

Ph.D. Topic: Hawai'i Supernova Flows
Committee Chair: Ben Shappee
IfA Mānoa
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Ryan Dungee Ph.D. Candidate

IfA Hawaii island
Predicitve Control in Ground Layer Adaptive Optics, Rotation Periods of M dwarfs in M67 and Rup 147

Tze Goh Graduate Student

IfA Mānoa, C-213D
The rotating universe

Willem Hoogendam NSF Graduate Research Fellow

IfA Mānoa, C-216
Type Ia Supernovae Progenitor Systems

Jonathan Lee Graduate Student

IfA Mānoa

Rena Lee NSF Graduate Research Fellow

IfA Mānoa, B-101

Jiayi Liu Graduate Student

IfA Mānoa, C-216A

Miles Lucas Graduate Student

Ph.D. Topic: Optical Imaging Polarimetry of Planet-Forming Regions at Solar System Scales with SCExAO/VAMPIRES
Committee Chair: Michael Bottom
IfA Mānoa, C-216A
Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO)

Grey Murphree NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Suchitra Narayanan PhD Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow

SURPH (Software Utility for Relative PHotometry), Co-Designed ASTR 399 (Introduction to Astronomical Research) w/ Dr. Roy Gal

Michael Nassir Graduate Student

IfA Mānoa

James Ou Graduate Research Assistant

Ph.D. Topic: Mass Distributions of Binary Asteroids in Main Belt Families
Committee Chair: Christoph Baranec
IfA Hawaii island, 132
Dynamics of Main Belt Binary Asteroids, Robo-AO

Anna Payne NASA Graduate Fellow

IfA Mānoa

Aldo Sepulveda NSF Graduate Research Fellow, ΦKΦ Graduate Fellow

IfA Mānoa
IfA Mānoa, C-225
SCEXAO/CHARIS Multi-Wavelength High Contrast Imaging of a Debris Disk, Focal Plane Speckle Suppression at Keck

Bryan Yamashiro Graduate Student

IfA Mānoa, B-101

Ruihan (Suzanne) Zhang Graduate Student

Ph.D. Topic: HAPA: Hybrid Atmospheric Phase Analysis A Wavefront Sensing Technique for Improving the Adaptive Optics Correction of Fainter Stars
Committee Chair: Christoph Baranec
IfA Hawaii island, 133
Instrumentation, Adaptive Optics