Teaching, Mentoring & Awards
Teaching
ASTP 414: Relativity and Cosmology (Fall 2020, 2022, 2023)
ASTP 313: Elements of Astrophysics (Spring 2020, 2021, 2023)
PHYS 120: Physics of the 21st Century (Fall 2015-8, 2022, 2023)
PHYS 111N: Intro General Physics I online (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Summer 2022, Summer 2023)
PHYS 112N: Intro General Physics II online (Spring, Fall 2018, Summer 2020, Summer 2021)
PHYS 112N: Intro General Physics II (Spring 2015-7)
PHYS 111N: Intro General Physics I (Fall 2014-6)
PHYS 652: Astrophysics (Spring 2008)
Awards
Spring 2023: Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor
Spring 2020: SCHEV Rising Star Nominee and Finalist
Spring 2019: Early Career Distinguished Teaching Award
Spring 2019: Excellence in Supporting Undergraduate Research
Spring 2019: SCHEV Rising Star Nominee and Finalist
Spring 2018: ODU New Faculty of the Year Winner
Spring 2018: Excellence in Supporting Undergraduate Research
Spring 2017: ODU New Faculty of the Year Finalist
Spring 2017: Excellence in Supporting Undergraduate Research
Spring 2017: Shining Star
Spring 2016: Shining Star
Spring 2016: Excellence in Supporting Undergraduate Research
Spring 2016: Early Career Distinguished Research Award
Fall 2015: Phi Beta Pi Most Passionate Professor
Fall 2015: Shining Star
Fall 2014: Shining Star
Mentoring
Graduate Students
Katheryne Price, PhD physics, ODU 2028
Elizabeth Breen, PhD physics, ODU 2026
Penn Rogers, PhD physics, ODU 2026
Alexander Coxe, PhD physics, ODU 2024
Corey Sargent, PhD physics, ODU 2024
Dallan Duffin, PhD physics, ODU 2024
Ioannis Sakiotis, PhD computer science, ODU 2023
Sukesh Sangam, MS computer science, ODU 2018
Kamesh Arumugam, PhD computer science, ODU 2017 (Won Lee Entsminger Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award 2018)
Benjamin Sprague, MS physics, NIU 2008 (Won Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools MS Award 2008)
Undergraduate Summer Students
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
2011: Anton Zvezdin
2010: Matt Kramer
2010: Colin Jarvis
Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI)
2011: Matt Kramer
Undergraduate Senior Thesis at ODU
Spring 2024, Brandon Velasco: "Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect"
Spring 2023, Christian Koon: "Black hole information paradox"
Spring 2022, Adam Lane: "Missing mass profiles for disk galaxies using nonlinear general relativity"
Spring 2021, Jackson Clark: "Orbits of a charged particle around a Reissner-Nordström black hole"
Spring 2019, Corey Sargent: "Significance of nonlinear gravitational effects on the dynamics of spiral galaxies" [journal, arXiv]
Spring 2019, Aaron Brown: "Optimizing the performance of inverse Compton sources through the use of RF laser chirping" [journal, arXiv]
Spring 2019, James Howard: "Diagnostics and optimization for inverse Compton sources"
Spring 2018, Kelly Sanderson: "Optimizing an analysis of neutral hydrogen content of galaxy groups in the Illustris-1 simulation"
Spring 2018, Trenton Hagerman: "Semi-analytical methods for inverse Compton scattering" [pdf, journal]
Spring 2017, Amethyst Maps: "Order and chaos in particle accelerator trajectories"
Fall 2015, Erik Johnson: "Computation of Compton-scattered energy spectra in the linear regime" [journal, arXiv]
Spring 2015, Chris Cotnoir: "A hybrid nature-inspired algorithm for multidimensional nonlinear optimization with applications to biology" [journal]
Spring 2015, Mark Stefani: "Wavelet-based noise-reduction techniques in tomography with applications to accelerator physics"