Research Group

I am looking for active undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs who would like to join my group and work on a wide range of research topics ranging from space and (exo)planetary sciences, and laboratory and astro- plasma physics to physics-informed machine learning. If you are interested in such opportunities, please contact me at dcfy@bu.edu. 

Ph.D. Program: 

• • To apply for Ph.D. in Astronomy at Boston University, please click here.

  • To apply for Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Boston University, please click here.

Business Manager:

Mr. Thomas O'Connor

E-mail: tomoc@bu.edu; Phone: +1 (617) 353-7418

Ms. Erin Reynolds

E-mail: ereynold@bu.edu; Phone: +1 (617) 358-0603

Department Administrator:

Ms. Anne Smartvlasak

E-mail: asmart@bu.edu; Phone: +1 (617) 353-2625

Group Photos (click the link):

September 2023;
February 2024; August 2024; October 2024; December 2024;
February 2025; April 2025; May 2025; 

Current:

UGS - Undergraduate Student:

• Zhihao Cheng (UGS at BU)

• Jack Crimmins (UGS at BU)

• Emmett Shei-House (UGS at BU)

• Kaichun Xu (UGS at BU)

• Jingxuan Zhang (UGS at BU)
  
  

PBR - Post-baccalaureate Researcher:

• Raul Lama (PBR from BU)
  
  

GS - Graduate Student:

• Laura Chin (GS at BU Astronomy; Joined BU from Wellesley College)

• Yilan Qin (GS at BU ECE; Joined BU from Fudan University)

• Sujay Shankar (GS at BU Astronomy; Joined BU from The University of Texas at Austin)

• Abigail Tadlock (GS at BU Astronomy; Joined BU from Mount Holyoke College)

PDR - Postdoctoral Researcher:

• Jiawei Gao (PDR at BU; Joined BU from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

• Xinmin Li (PDR at BU; Joined BU from USTC)

• Simin Shekarpaz (PDR at BU; Joined BU from Brown University)

RS - Research Scientist, and SRS - Senior Research Scientist:

• Liang Wang (SRS at BU; Joined BU from Princeton University)

• Hongyang Zhou (RS at BU; Joined BU from University of Helsinki, Finland) 

• Chi Zhang (PDR-->RS at BU; Joined BU from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

VUGS - Visiting Undergraduate Student, VGS - Visiting Graduate Student, and VS - Visiting Scholar:

• Liangjin Song (VS)

Past:

UGS - Undergraduate Student, GS - Graduate Student, and VUGS/VGS - Visiting Student:

• Jacqueline Vazquez (UGS at BU) --> GS at Washington University in St. Louis.

• Cindy Zhou (UGS at BU) --> GS at The University of Chicago.

• Yue Yuan (VUGS at BU) --> GS at UCLA.

• Duilio Lioce (UGS at BU).

• Thomas Kelly (GS at BU ECE).

• Zhen Shi (VGS at BU) --> PDR at Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

• Laura Chin (Summer intern supported by NASA SUPPR, UGS at Wellesley College) --> GS at BU.

• Hilary Egan (GS at CU Boulder, co-advised her with Prof. Dave Brain) --> In industry.

• Rebecca Jolitz (UGS at UC Berkeley, GS at CU Boulder, co-advised her with Prof. Dave Brain) --> PDR at UC Berkeley.

• Dion Li (Summer intern supported by DOE SULI, UGS at Univ. Michigan) --> GS at MIT.

• Anthony Raymond (GS at Univ. Michigan, co-advised him with Prof. Karl Krushelnick and Prof. Louise Willingale) --> RS at Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester.

• Elisabeth Rulke (Summer intern supported by NASA SUPPR, UGS at Princeton Univ.) --> GS at Tsinghua University.

• Brandon Russell (GS --> PDR at Univ. Michigan, co-advised him with Prof. ‪Karl Krushelnick‬ and Prof. Louise Willingale) --> PDR at PPPL.

PDR - Postdoctoral Researcher:

• Ziyu Huang (PDR at BU) --> PDR at GaTech.

• Paul Campbell (GS --> PDR at Univ. Michigan, co-advised him with Prof. Karl Krushelnick and Prof. Louise Willingale) --> RS at Univ. Michigan.

• Leonardo Regoli (PDR at Univ. Michigan, co-advised him with Prof. Steve Bougher) --> RS at APL/JHU.

RS - Research Scientist, and SRS - Senior Research Scientist:

• Yuxi Chen (RS at Princeton Univ. --> SRS at BU) --> RS at Univ. Michigan.