Ph.D. Program:
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):
February 2024; August 2024; October 2024; December 2024;
February 2025; April 2025; May 2025;
Current:
UGS - Undergraduate Student:
Zhihao Cheng (UGS at BU; supported by UROP, Fall 2024 & Fall 2025)
Jack Crimmins (UGS at BU; supported by UROP, Summer 2025)
Emmett Shei-House (UGS at BU; supported by MASGC Fellowship, Fall 2025)
Zoey Jestude (UGS at BU)
Kaichun Xu (UGS at BU)
Barton Yang (UGS at BU)
Jingxuan Zhang (UGS at BU)
Langrui 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; supported by Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship, 2024-2026)
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)
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; supported by MASGC Fellowship, Fall 2024) --> 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; supported by UROP, Fall 2024).
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:
Simin Shekarpaz (PDR at BU) -> PDR at BU Applied Mathematics.
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.