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.
Alexa Anderson Graduate Student
Ph.D. Topic: Looking Inward: M-band Spectroscopy of Protoplanetary Disks
Committee Chair: Jonathan Williams
Committee Chair: Jonathan Williams
IfA Mānoa, B-101
Erica Bufanda NASA Fellow (Future Investigator), Soroptimist Fellow, PhD Candidate
Ph.D. Topic: Vehicles to the Past: Characterizing the Activity of Long Period Comets
Committee Chair: Karen Meech
Committee Chair: Karen Meech
IfA Mānoa
Federica Chiti Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, B101
Kenji Emerson Graduate Student
IfA Hawaii island
Ph.D. Topic: Characterizing High-redshift Interactions within the Environments of the First Structures (CHIEFS)
Committee Chair: Dave Sanders, Roy Gal
Committee Chair: Dave Sanders, Roy Gal
Jason Hinkle Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa
Ph.D. Topic: Adaptive secondary mirror testing and development
Committee Chair: Michael Connelley
Committee Chair: Michael Connelley
IfA Mānoa, 138 (Hilo)
Rena Lee NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Ph.D. Topic: Exploring Extreme Earths: Implications for Rocky Planet Formation
Committee Chair: Fei Dai
Committee Chair: Fei Dai
IfA Mānoa, B-101
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
Committee Chair: Michael Bottom
IfA Mānoa, C-216A
Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO)
Grey Murphree NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Ph.D. Topic: Constraining Structure Formation at High Redshift
Committee Chair: István Szapudi
Committee Chair: István Szapudi
IfA Mānoa
Suchitra Narayanan PhD Candidate, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, P.E.O. Scholar
Ph.D. Topic: Organosulfur Chemistry in the Birthplaces of Planets
Committee Chair: Jonathan P. Williams
Committee Chair: Jonathan P. Williams
IfA Mānoa
James Ou Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. Topic: Mass Distributions of Binary Asteroids in Main Belt Families
Committee Chair: Christoph Baranec
Committee Chair: Christoph Baranec
IfA Hawaii island, 132
Dynamics of Main Belt Binary Asteroids, Robo-AO
Derek Sikorski Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, C233
IfA Mānoa, C-216A
Ph.D. Topic: Developments in Direct Imaging: Implementing Deformable Mirror Upgrade and Characterizing Protoplanetary Disks
Committee Chair: Michael Bottom, Jonathan Williams
Committee Chair: Michael Bottom, Jonathan Williams
IfA Hawaii island, WM Keck Observatory
Jingwen Zhang Graduate Student, NASA FINESST Fellow
IfA Mānoa, C-127
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
Committee Chair: Christoph Baranec
IfA Hawaii island, 133
Instrumentation, Adaptive Optics
Yuchen (Elina) Zhang Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, B-227
IfA Mānoa, C-216