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