Teaching, Mentoring & Awards

Mentoring

Graduate Students

1. Jackson Clark, PhD physics, ODU 2030

2. Colin Matthews, PhD physics, ODU 2030

3. Elizabeth Breen, PhD physics, ODU 2026

4. Penn Rogers, PhD physics, ODU 2026

5. Alexander Coxe, PhD physics, ODU 2024

6. Dallan Duffin, PhD physics, ODU 2024

7. Corey Sargent, PhD physics, ODU 2024

8. Ioannis Sakiotis, PhD computer science, ODU 2024

9. Jackson Clark, MS physics, ODU 2023

10. Erik Johnson, PhD physics, ODU 2021

11. Sukesh Sangam, MS computer science, ODU 2018

12. Ravi Majeti, MS computer science, ODU 2017

13. Kamesh Arumugam, PhD computer science, ODU 2017 (Won Lee Entsminger Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award 2018)

14. Benjamin Sprague, MS physics, NIU 2008 (Won Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools MS Award 2008)

15. Edward Nissen, MS physics, NIU 2007

Undergraduate Summer Students

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

1. 2025: Kayla Markham (poster, paper)

2. 2024: Anne Campbell

3. 2023: Andrew Tom (poster, paper)

4. 2022: Gabriella Wilson

5. 2022: Ryan Shahan

6. 2021: Albrun Johnson

7. 2021: Meagan Jennings

8. 2020: Elizabeth Breen

9. 2019: Jeffrey McKaig

10. 2018: Trenton Hagerman

11. 2017: Andrew Dotson

12. 2016: Rebeka Kelmar 

13. 2015: Tyler Blanton 

14. 2014: Cody Reeves

15. 2014: Victoria Gabriele

16. 2014: Todd Hodges

17. 2013: Alyssa Henderson

18. 2011: Anton Zvezdin

19. 2010: Matt Kramer

20. 2010: Colin Jarvis

Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) 

1. 2015: Cody Reeves

2. 2011: Matt Kramer

Undergraduate Senior Thesis at ODU

1. Spring 2025, Jessica Blevins: "Missing Mass Profiles in Galaxies: ΛCDM vs. Nonlinear General Relativity"

2. Spring 2025, Colin Matthews: "Modeling the CMB Power Spectrum Using General Relativity Self-Interaction"

3. Fall 2024, Kyle Wyatt: "The Quasar Jet Mystery" 

4. Spring 2024, Brandon Velasco: "Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect" [journal, arXiv]

5. Fall 2023, Ryan Shahan: "Simulating undulator emissions"

6. Spring 2023, Christian Koon: "Black hole information paradox"

7. Spring 2022, Adam Lane: "Missing mass profiles for disk galaxies using nonlinear general relativity"

8. Spring 2021, Jackson Clark: "Orbits of a charged particle around a Reissner-Nordström black hole"

9. Spring 2019, Corey Sargent:  "Significance of nonlinear gravitational effects on the dynamics of spiral galaxies" [journal, arXiv]

10. Spring 2019, Aaron Brown:  "Optimizing the performance of inverse Compton sources through the use of RF laser chirping"  [journal, arXiv]

11. Spring 2019, James Howard: "Diagnostics and optimization for inverse Compton sources"

12. Spring 2018, Kelly Sanderson: "Optimizing an analysis of neutral hydrogen content of galaxy groups in the Illustris-1 simulation"

13. Spring 2018, Trenton Hagerman: "Semi-analytical methods for inverse Compton scattering" [pdf, journal]

14. Spring 2017, Amethyst Maps: "Order and chaos in particle accelerator trajectories"

15. Fall 2015, Erik Johnson: "Computation of Compton-scattered energy spectra in the linear regime" [journal, arXiv]

16. Spring 2015, Chris Cotnoir: "A hybrid nature-inspired algorithm for multidimensional nonlinear optimization with applications to biology"  [journal]

17. Spring 2015, Mark Stefani: "Wavelet-based noise-reduction techniques in tomography with applications to accelerator physics"