Alumni News: Fall 2025

More notable alumni news:

• Hormuzd Katki '92 celebrated his retirement from the NIH National Cancer Institute.

• Lightsynq Technologies, a startup co-founded by Bart Machielse '12, was acquired by IonQ, a commercial quantum computing and networking company.

• Eva Albaghiti ‘13 was awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan.

• Chris Tong '21 received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to attend graduate school at Princeton University.

• Harikesh Kailad '23 won a Goldwater Scholarship (umd.edu)

Publications:

Medical Research:

• Y. Qiao et al., and Stephen Chen '91, Current and future directions in interventional neuro-oncology-are we there yet? (J. Neurointerv. Surg.)

• Jonathan Jun '92, Intermittent hypoxia and spironolactone: a match made in vessels? (Sleep)

• T.P. Joshi et al., and Arash Kimyai-Asadi '92, Digital Papillary Adenocarcinoma: An Updated Review of Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Management (Dermatologic Surgery)

• C. Ladaika et al., and Heather O'Hagan '94, LSD1 inhibition attenuates targeted therapy-induced lineage plasticity in BRAF mutant colorectal cancer (Molecular Cancer)

• A. A. Dixit et al., and Eric Sun '96, Association Between Opioid Use Disorder and Healthcare Spending and Utilization in Emergency Surgical Patients: A Retrospective Analysis Using Commercial Claims (Annals of Surgery Open)

• Franklin Wright '96 et al., Thin air, thick blood: High altitude trauma centers have increased deep venous thrombosis rates (American Journal of Surgery)

• R.I. Torene et al., and Kyle Retterer '99, A scalable approach for genomic-first rare disorder detection in a healthcare-based population (American Journal of Human Genetics)

• Jennifer Caswell-Jin '02 et al., Physician Specialization and Receipt of Updated Breast Cancer Care in the United States: A SEER-Medicare Analysis (JCO Oncology Practice)

• M. Lambec, Dimana Dimitrova '02, and S. Mihaylova, Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Rule Violations for Drug-Likeness Assessment in Peptide Molecules Using Random Forest Models (Int'l J. Mol. Sci.)

• Nisha Gilotra '02 and S. Divakaran, The time is now: Identifying optimal imaging strategies to monitor cardiac sarcoidosis activity (J. Nuclear Cardiology)

• E.L. Myers etal., and Melodi Javid Whitley, '03, Recognition and management of adverse cutaneous reactions in patients on enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab in the inpatient setting (JAAD Case Reports)

• Adrienne Long '05 et al., Hypogammaglobulinemia in Children Receiving Targeted Immunotherapies for B Lineage Malignancies: Practical Guidance for Assessment and Management (Pediatric Blood & Cancer)

• R. Khazanchi et al., and Srikanth Divi '05, Identifying patients at risk of increased health utilization following lumbar spine surgery (J. Clinical Neuroscience)

• Padma Sheila Rajagopal '05, S. Hassan, and C.C. Pritchard, Hotspot BRCA1/2 Mutations in Tumors With Microsatellite Instability Suggest Passenger Mutation Status and Evaluation of Therapeutic Options (JCO Precision Oncology)

• Kiran Belani '06 et al., Tricuspid Regurgitation after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: Trajectories and Association With Mortality (Clinical Transplantation)

• J. Khasentino, Anastasiya Belyaeva '11 et al., A personal health large language model for sleep and fitness coaching (Nature Medicine)

• Anna Ou '16 et al., Cognitive function in physically healthy, unmedicated individuals with major depression: Relationship with depressive symptoms and antidepressant response (J. Affective Disorders)

Public Health Research:

• A.H. Sinclair et al., and Joshua Weitz '93, NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment (Nature Human Behavior)

• K.M. Pollack Porter, Attia Goheer '00, et al., Training Doctoral Students to Advance Health Equity Through Policy Leadership: An Overview of the Health Policy Research Scholars Program (Health Equity)

• Sarah Peitzmeier '06 et al., An Internet-Delivered Sexual Assault Resistance Intervention for Undergraduate Women (The IDEA3 Trial): Protocol for a Multisite Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial (JMIR Research Protocols)

• H. Bae, K. Meckel, and Maggie Shi '12, Dependent insurance coverage and parental job lock: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act (J. Pub. Econ.)

• A. Chandra and Connie Xu '15, Where Discovery Happens: Research Institutions and Fundamental Knowledge in the Life-Sciences (NBER Working Paper)

Neuroscience Research:

• C.J. MacDowell et al., and Timothy Bushman '97, Multiplexed subspaces route neural activity across brain-wide networks (Nature Communications)

• S. Walvekar et al., and Erin Beck '99, Cortical lesions are common in af longitudinal progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy cohort (Brain Communications)

• C.J. Dallman et al., Bingni Wen Brunton '02, and J.C. Tuthill, Selective presynaptic inhibition of leg proprioception in behaving Drosophila (Nature)

• A. Nern et al., Stuart Berg '03, G.M. Rubin, and M.B. Reiser, Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system (Nature)

• C.D. Guoynes, G. Pavalko, and Michael Sidorov '03, Courtship and distress ultrasonic vocalizations are altered in a mouse model of Angelman syndrome (J. Neurodev. Disorders)

• S. Peng and Wilma Bainbridge '05, Image memorability predicts social media virality and externally-associated commenting (Computers in Human Behavior)

Biology Research:

• S. Murakami et al., and Samie Jaffrey '89, m6A alters ribosome dynamics to initiate mRNA degradation (Cell)

• David Hu '97, Cooperative behavior: Superefficient weaver ants (Current Biology)

• J. Zou, E. Maciejewski, and Jason Ernst '98, Genome-wide identification and analysis of recurring patterns of epigenetic variation across individuals (Communications Biology)

• X. Hu et al., and Ani Manichaikul '99, Genetic mapping of complement system proteins for islet autoimmunity in children with high risk of T1D (Communications Biology)

• K. Börner et al., incl. Rahul Satija '02 and Jean Fan '09, Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP): 3D Human Reference Atlas construction and usage (Nature Methods)

• J. Clem et al., and Kristina Cammen '03, Evaluating the Use of Environmental DNA for Pinniped Detection and Population Genetics at Haulout Sites (Marine Mammal Science)

• C.W. Fell et al., and Jonathan Gootenberg '09, Reprogramming site-specific retrotransposon activity to new DNA sites (Nature)

• R. Alex Wiebe '15, D.S. Wilcove, and C.E. Tarnita, Trajectories of biodiversity loss and extinction from trade globalization (Current Biology)

• A. Lucas, Daniel Schäffer '19, J. Wickramasinghe, and N. Auslander, kMermaid: Ultrafast metagenomic read assignment to protein clusters by hashing of amino acid k-mer frequencies (PLoS Computational Biology)

Chemistry Research:

• M.B. Carpio et al. and Yevgeny Brudno '00, A versatile and efficient method to quantify purity and degree of substitution in alginate derivatives (Carbohydrate Polymers)

• M. Degbevi et al., and Emily Tsui '04, Ligand Basicity Modulates Metal Cation Reduction Potentials at Colloidal Cadmium Chalcogenide Quantum Dot Surfaces (J. American Chemical Society)

• J. Großkopf et al., incl. Robert Martin '14, Generalizing arene C–H alkylations by radical–radical cross-coupling (Nature)

Physics Research:

• H. Fu, Carl Miller '97, and W. Slofstra, The Membership Problem for Constant-Sized Quantum Correlations is Undecidable (Communications in Mathematical Physics)

• Ning Bao '04 et al., Superselection rules, quantum error correction, and quantum chromodynamics (J. High Energy Physics)

• N. Acharya et al., and Jessica Shang '04, Rippled shock propagation in a laser-driven target at multimegabar pressures (J. Applied Physics)

• R.M. Kroeze et al., incl. Michael Winer '15, Directly observing replica symmetry breaking in a vector quantum-optical spin glass (Science)

• W.Y. Wang et al., incl. Anna Barth '17, Rigidity transitions in anisotropic networks: a crossover scaling analysis (Soft Matter)

Engineering Research:

• E.M. Raftery et al., and Minjoo Larry Lee '94, Photopumped Buried Dielectric Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers (IEEE Photonics)

• R.K. Padhy et al., and Aaditya Chandrasekar '09, Treetop: topology optimization using constructive solid geometry trees (Structure and Multidisciplinary Optimization)

• Sara Shonkwiler ‘14 et al., Input part shape representation/deep learning architecture and dataset analysis for additive manufacturing part quality predictions (Manufacturing Letters)

• Mikhail Khrenov '18, W.F. Templeton, and S.P. Narra, ADDOPT: An Additive Manufacturing Optimal Control Framework Demonstrated in Minimizing Layer-Level Thermal Variance in Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (J. Manuf. Sci. Eng.)

Astronomy and Planetary Science Research:

• J.W. Conrad and Caleb Fassett '98, Secondary craters reveal differences in neighboring geologic units: An example on Mars (Icarus)

• Marc Pulupa '99 et al., Highly Polarized Type III Storm Observed with Parker Solar Probe (Astrophysical Journal Letters)

• S. Kaur, D. Viganò, Jackie Villadsen '05, et al., Polarized, variable radio emission from the scallop-shell binary system DG CVn (Astronomy & Astrophysics)

• Vijay Baharani '08 et al., Design of a High-Performance EGSE Architecture for the Dragonfly Mission to Titan (2025 IEEE Aerospace Conference)

Environmental Research:

• Miranda Mockrin '95 et al., Legacies of urbanization and suburbanization on forest patch distribution, ownership, and use: Insights from Baltimore, Maryland (Urban Forestry & Urban Gardening)

• Jennifer Helgeson '02, A.A. Kajbaf, and J.F. Fung, Co-benefits of resilience planning: a review of analysis tools and methods (Frontiers in Climate)

• S. Fasola, M. Brudzinski, and Noel Jackson '04, Evidence for Far-Field Wastewater Disposal Causing Recent Increases in Seismicity in Central and Northern Kansas (Seismica)

• M. Koucka, C. Poor, Jordyn Wolfand '07, et al., The First Thirty Years of Green Stormwater Infrastructure in Portland, Oregon (Sustainability)

Mathematics and Computer Science Research:

• L. Zhang et al. and Maneesh Agrawala '90, Generating Past and Future in Digital Painting Processes (ACM Transactions)

• A. Bik, A. Danelon, and Andrew Snowden '00, Isogeny classes of cubic spaces (Selecta Mathematica)

• Jared Marx-Kuo '15, A Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the Allen–Cahn equation on manifolds with boundary (Interfaces and Free Boundaries)

Humanities and Social Science Research:

• S.E. Watson et al., and Naomi Cleghorn '89, Robberg Lithic Technology from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1 (J. Paleo. Archeology)

• David Heetderks '93, Unraveling Tonic Identity and Function in Reger’s “Mozart” Variations (Oxford Handbook of Musical Variation)

• J. Berger '98 et al., Casting a Wider Net: Using Automated Content Analysis to Discover New Ideas (Current Directions in Psychological Science)

• S.C. Guntuku et al., incl. Angel Fan '16, Historical patterns of rice farming explain modern-day language use in China and Japan more than modernization and urbanization (Nature Hum. and Soc. Sci. Comm'cns)

Policy Research:

• E. Alashwali et al., and Lorrie Cranor '89, Work from home and privacy challenges: what do workers face and what are they doing about it? (J. Cybersecurity)

• Daniel Chen '95 and M. Loecher, Mood and the malleability of moral reasoning: the impact of irrelevant factors on judicial decisions (J. of Behav. and Experim. Econ.)

• M. Sullivan, Ellen Kohl '97, and C. Sellers, The Co-Development of Environmental Justice and Children’s Environmental Health at the EPA (Environ. Justice)

• O. Dube, S.J. MacArthur, and Anuj Shah '01, A Cognitive View of Policing (Quart. J. of Econ.)

• Jeremy Goodman '06, Permutation-invariant social welfare orders are anonymous (J. Math. Econ.)

• R. Gonzales and Laura Cui '19, A conversation with Angie Drobnic Holan on misinformation, fact-checking, and the modern media landscape (MIT Policy Review)

News articles by alumni journalists:

• Ars Technica: All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity by Kyle Orland '00

• Willamette Week: Oregon’s Early Child Care Crisis Impacts All but Two of the State’s 36 Counties by Khushboo Rathore '20

• Bloomberg News: Wall Street and AI Startups Are Fighting Over Entry-Level Quants by Anika Seth '21

• Houston Chronicle: How do high-end restaurants like Barbacana refine their service? They track your data by Aviva Bechky '21