ObsCos - People

Principal Investigator

Joaquin Vieira

Professor, Department of Astronomy, Department of Physics

Director of Astronomy and the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2009 Ph.D. Physics, The University of Chicago

2002 B.S. Astrophysics, The University of California, Los Angeles

Postdocs

Kedar Phadke

JWST Observations, SPT SMGs, Machine Learning, SkAI

Mathilde Van Cuyck

TIM & Line Intensity Mapping

Karolina Garcia

CAPS Fellow -- ISM & cosmology Simulations and Theory

Graduate Students

David Vizgan

Astronomy: SPT SMGs

Yujie Wan

Astronomy: Galactic Transients

Brockton Brendal

Physics: TIM Instrumentation

Sydnee O'Donnell

Physics: TIM Instrumentation

Andrew Gao

Physics: Galactic Observation

Elif Yilmaz

ECE: SPT Instrumentation

Qing Hao

Physics: Instrumentation

Alumni

Andrew Nadolski

PhD Astronomy, 2020

Currently: Intel

Sreevani Jarugula

PhD Astronomy, 2022

Currently: Fermilab

Cassie Reuter

Research Scientist, 2020 - 2023

Postdoc, 2017 - 2020

Currently: Scientist at Gamma Reality

Melanie Archipley

PhD Astronomy, 2024

Currently: University of Chicago

Kedar Phadke

PhD Astronomy, 2024

Currently: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Jianyang Fu

PhD Astronomy, 2025

Currently: Dicke Fellow at Princeton University

Veronica Dike

Postdoc, 2023 - 2025

Undergraduate Alumni
(this is incomplete ... if you should be here and you are not, please ping Joaquin)

Noor Ansari, Sierra Barone, Margie Bruff (--> U. Colorado Boulder), Joseph Capota, James Chesire (--> U. Minnesotta --> Caltech), Austin Edmister (--> Michigan State), Kayleigh Excell, Unique Divine, John Farwick, Lina Florez (--> U. Pittsberg), Rebecca Furstenau, Yonas Gebre, Robert Gramillano, Angelina Harke-Hosemann (--> U. Colorado Boulder), Rose Hewald, Lilly Kettler (--> U. Cincinatti), Anna Kofman (U. Penn --> U. Chicago), Sidney Lower (--> U. Florida), Jason Meier, Yashasvi Moon (--> U. Illinois), Alex Navarre (--> U. Cincinnati), Athish Thiruvengadam, Maya Vira, Lizhong Zhang (--> UCSB --> Princeton)