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
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
Willem Hoogendam NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Ph.D. Topic: Rapid Observations of Infant Supernovae
Committee Chair: Ben Shappee
Committee Chair: Ben Shappee
IfA Mānoa, B-227
Supernovae, Tidal Disruption Events, Transients, Interstellar Objects and Comets
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
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
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
Yuchen (Elina) Zhang Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, C-232A
IfA Mānoa, C-216