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
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
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 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
Ian Cunnyngham Graduate Student
IfA Hawaii island
Aaron Do Graduate Student
Ph.D. Topic: Hawai'i Supernova Flows
Committee Chair: Ben Shappee
Committee Chair: Ben Shappee
Kenji Emerson Graduate Student
IfA Hawaii island
Jason Hinkle Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa
Willem Hoogendam NSF Graduate Research Fellow
IfA Mānoa, C-216
Type Ia Supernovae Progenitor Systems, Asteroseismology of Gravity-Mode Pulsators
Rena Lee NSF Graduate Research Fellow
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
IfA Mānoa
Suchitra Narayanan PhD Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow
IfA Mānoa
SURPH (Software Utility for Relative PHotometry), Co-Designed ASTR 399 (Introduction to Astronomical Research) w/ Dr. Roy Gal
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
Aldo Sepulveda NSF Graduate Research Fellow, ΦKΦ Graduate Fellow
IfA Mānoa
Derek Sikorski Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, C216A
IfA Mānoa, C-225
SCEXAO/CHARIS Multi-Wavelength High Contrast Imaging of a Debris Disk, Focal Plane Speckle Suppression at Keck
Jingwen Zhang Graduate Student
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, C216A