Christine joined the group in August 2009 as a postdoctoral research associate and joined the faculty in August 2012. She works on jet measurements in ALICE and sPHENIX.  She is in the JETSCAPE collaboration, where she focuses on comparisons between data and models.  She is overseeing the upload of data from published PHENIX papers to the HEPData data base.  In the EPIC and sPHENIX collaborations she is heavily involved in diversity, equity a

Ken is the ALICE-USA Barrel Tracker Upgrade Principal Investigator, the ORNL ALICE-USA Tier 2 Site Computing Contact, the ORNL Group  Leader for Relativistic Heavy Ions, and the former co-lead of the ECCE Consortium Detector Team which led the design of the reference detector for the Electron Ion Collider. He supervises ALICE heavy ion analysis by graduate student Ewa Glimos and mentors sPHENIX hardware development by other students.

Soren has done most of his research within the WA80/93/98 collaboration (transverse energy production, nuclear stopping power, etc.), the PHENIX collaboration (Muon Arm system, offline computing, heavy flavor physics), and the ALICE collaboration (ALICE-USA Coordinator). His research prior to retiring was primarily focused on the ALICE-USA BTU project as well as the analysis of single muon data from the PHENIX Muon Arms and transverse energy production in ALICE.

Sookhyun joined the group in January 2023 and works on JETSCAPE and sPHENIX.

Austin graduated in physics from the University of Maryland, and began his PhD program in August 2017. His thesis research is focused on the measurement of the nuclear modification factor in p--Pb collisions at 8 TeV using the ALICE detector. He has a strong interest in detector electronics and technology, and has assisted in several projects within ALICE and sPHENIX. These include front end card assembly for the ALICE BTU project, iHCal module assembly for sPHENIX, and MVTX readout testing and assembly for sPHENIX, as well as accompanying DAQ decoder software.

Patrick joined the group in summer 2018 as a Research Assistant through the Tennessee Fellowship for Graduate Excellence. He graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in both Math and Physics where he worked with the ALICE experiment under Jennifer Klay. Patrick continues his work with ALICE here at UTK where his thesis work will focus on identified pions, kaons and protons in jets in heavy-ion collisions. After his PhD, Patrick is hoping to transition to the machine learning industry. 

Tanner began his work with the UTK RHIP group in 2019 as an undergraduate summer research fellow. After receiving his Bachelors degree in May of 2020 from the University of Tennessee, he subsequently began his PhD program in August of 2020. He became a full-time graduate research assistant at the start of 2022. His research interests are in heavy flavor tagged jets and is currently working to measure c-tagged jet anisotropies in Au-Au collisions using the sPHENIX detector. He also has interest in deep learning an it's applications to high energy physics as a whole. 

Christal graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2021 with Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics. She joined RHIP in May 2019 as a REU student where she worked on implementing a process to compare heavy ion collision experiments with models like PYTHIA and JETSCAPE in a program called Rivet. In 2020, she was awarded the Douglas V. Roseberry Award. Christal is continuing her work on JETSCAPE and will complete her thesis analysis in sPHENIX.