Fellows by Practicum Location
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson, Caira | 2026 | Zhang, Hong | Performance Study of a Fully Implicit Runge-Kutta Method Using MatKAIJ for Stiff MHD Simulations in PETSc |
| de Pablo, Luis | 2025 | Ferrier, Nicola | Rapid Ecological Monitoring with SAGE |
| Garcia, Fred Angelo | 2026 | Frontiere, Nicholas | Galaxy Clusters in the FrontierE Cosmological Simulations |
| Garcia, Michelle | 2024 | de Pablo, Juan | Active Learning to Accelerate ABF Grid Sampling |
| Gersey, Julia | 2026 | Ferrier, Nicola | CrossSense: Contrastive Alignment of Heterogeneous Sensing Modalities on the Sage Edge Sensor Network |
| Meitz, Ethan | 2024 | Ramanathan, Arvind | Generation and Validation of Intrinsically Disorder Protein Complexes from Diffusion Models |
| Niu, Zijian | 2026 | Ramanathan, Arvind | Agentic Platform for Small-molecule Binder Design |
| Paik, Maxwell | 2025 | Schanen, Michel | Exploring GPU-acceleration of Incremental Potential Contact |
| Torsiello, Joseph | 2024 | Osborn, James | Machine Learning + Hybrid Monte Carlo (ML+HMC) Simulation in Lattice QCD |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowden, Amanda | 2026 | Lin, Wuyin | CESM2 vs E3SMv3: The Madden-Julian Oscillation's Modulation of Easterly Waves (in a Warming Climate) |
| Charles, Clement | 2025 | Kelly, Christopher | Analysis of lattice QCD data using resampling, multistate fits and GEVP |
| Chen, Lily | 2026 | Yoo, Shinjae | Mixture of Experts for Batch Effects in Cell Painting |
| Ravindra, Pavan | 2024 | Lu, Deyu | Machine Learning for X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy |
| Zhu, Albert | 2025 | Lu, Deyu | Spin lifetime in 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles, Clement | 2026 | Lamm, Henry | Mean field determination of discrete finite subgroups of SU(N) |
| Krishnan, Tanvi | 2026 | Machado, Pedro | Composite HNL model analysis and sensitivity in high-energy neutrino telescopes |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bardon, Alexandra | 2025 | Bouchard, Kristofer | Estimation of cortical communication during anesthesia |
| Bardon, Alexandra | 2026 | Bouchard, Kristofer | Analysis of feedforward and feedback subspaces during anesthesia |
| Bhan, Luke | 2024 | Mahoney, Michael | Solving long horizon optimal control with distributed optimization and randomized numerical linear algebra. |
| Bowden, Amanda | 2024 | Collins, William | The Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in the ERA5 & HENS using TempestExtremes |
| Cabral-Pelletier, Logan | 2025 | Feldman, Daniel | Silicate Weathering in Hothouse Climates |
| Cabral-Pelletier, Logan | 2026 | Feldman, Daniel | Earth's Albedo Symmetry: Past, Present, and Future |
| Chen, Emily | 2026 | Griffin, Sinead | Altermagnetic spin waves from a GW-BSE approach |
| Chua, Lauren | 2025 | Blau, Samuel | Automated Training Data Generation for Polymer Reactivity |
| Conner, Noah | 2026 | Martin, Daniel | Modelling Fusion Plasma in 5D: Adding Fourth-Order Velocity Mapping to COGENT |
| Dolorfino, Marissa | 2025 | Adams, Paul | Integrating crystallography & machine learning for improved protein-ligand complex determination |
| Fadlovich, Rae | 2025 | North, Josh | Characterizing ecologically relevant marine heatwaves in the Chesapeake Bay |
| Hart, Emma | 2024 | Li, Xiaoye Sherry | Flow Matching for Probabalistic Forecasting of Time Series |
| Hartzell, Alexia | 2026 | Neaton, Jeffrey | First-Principles Modeling of Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in Crystalline Pentacene |
| Heras Rivera, Juampablo | 2024 | Ushizima, Daniela | Developing and evaluating deep learning segmentation models in the biological and medical domain. |
| Hofgard, Elyssa | 2024 | Griffin, Sinead | Application of Topological Data Analysis to Amorphous Materials |
| Hofgard, Elyssa | 2026 | Griffin, Sinead | Modeling Multipolar and Topological Order in Amorphous Materials |
| Huan, Stephen | 2026 | Lindsey, Michael | Generative modeling of chaotic trajectories |
| Jiang, Jessica | 2026 | Moore, Joel | Walshness as a Learnability Metric for Neural Quantum States |
| Khumalo, Nothando | 2026 | de Jong, Bert | Untitled |
| Kim, Patrick | 2025 | Johansen, Hans | A Higher-Order Mapped Multiblock Grid Discretization with Embedded Boundaries for Nuclear Fusion Applications |
| Larsen, James | 2025 | Lin, Lin | Fast and Stable Phase Factor Finding for Quantum Signal Processing |
| Majeau, Fiona | 2026 | Heleno, Miguel | Investigating the Validity of Singular Perturbation Theory for Reducing Modern Electric Grid Models |
| Mancoridis, Vassiliki | 2025 | Falco, Nicola | Footprint-Aware Upscaling of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Using Deep Learning |
| Morrell, Zachary | 2026 | Klymko, Katherine | Discovering New VQE Ansatzes Through Genetic Algorithms |
| Nagaitsev, Kirill | 2025 | Iancu, Costin | Translating PyTorch to Optimized CUDA with Large Language Models |
| Nosirov, Ibrohim | 2025 | Li, Xiaoye Sherry | GPTune Extension: Non-zero mean field Gaussian Process |
| O'Meally, Franz | 2024 | Almgren, Ann | Multiphase Modeling of Cohesive Particle-Laden Flows |
| Simotas, Kathlynn | 2025 | Lukic, Zarija | Radiative Transfer & Foundation Models for the Nyx Cosmological Code |
| Simpson, Cooper | 2026 | Wild, Stefan | Non-uniform Correlation Informed Sampling for Efficient Stochastic Optimization |
| Williams, Jess | 2026 | Yang, Chao | Improved Alias Sampling via Select-Copy QROM |
| Yang, Xiaomian | 2026 | Liu, Yang | Coloring-Based Parallel H2 Factorization Algorithm |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berry, Isabel | 2025 | Lightstone, Felice | Toward High-Throughput Physics-Based Modeling and Virtual Screening of Membrane Proteins |
| Dravid, Amil | 2024 | Liu, Shusen | Extracting and Aligning Knowledge from Foundation Models |
| Foley, Emily | 2026 | Pratt, Jane | Simulating Stellar Convection with the Next Generation ALE Code MARBL |
| Guo, Gabriel | 2025 | Lordi, Vincenzo | Exploring Machine Learning to Analyze Quantum Two-Level Systems |
| Majeau, Fiona | 2024 | Woodward, Carol | Exploring the Suitability of Interpolation-Based Discrete Event Handling for Inclusion into SUNDIALS |
| Moyer, Benjamin | 2025 | Ezzedine, Souheil | From Waves to Yields: AI-Powered Insights into Explosion Source Parameters |
| Moyer, Benjamin | 2026 | Ezzedine, Souheil | LHydro.jl: A Vendor-Neutral, GPU-Accelerated Lagrangian Hydrocode in Julia |
| Paige, Jennifer | 2024 | Caldwell, Peter | Automated Calibration of the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) |
| Paige, Jennifer | 2025 | Caldwell, Peter | Further Enhancement of the Automated Calibration of the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) |
| Paik, Maxwell | 2026 | Kolev, Tzanio | Improving the Scalability of Algebraic Multigrid with Filtering |
| Powell, Margaret | 2026 | Terai, Ryutaro Christopher | Implications of the 1D radiative transfer bias in km-scale atmospheric models |
| Stanton, Sevio | 2026 | Vranas, Pavlos | Building Lattice-QCD Workflows from Hadron Masses to Scattering |
| Walker, Michael | 2025 | Olson, Britton | Modeling Surface Tension and Viscosity Effects on Rayleigh-Taylor Mixing with Miranda |
| Yik, William | 2026 | Caldwell, Peter | Learning Aerosol Effects with a Global Machine Learning Climate Emulator |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andalman, Zachary | 2024 | Fryer, Christopher | Thunderstorm: Relativistic Electron Transport in Kilonovae Ejecta |
| Dula Razzolini, Isabella | 2024 | Benedict, James | Using WRF to study convectively generated gravity waves |
| Dula Razzolini, Isabella | 2025 | Benedict, James | Does WRF produce realistic distributions of gravity waves in the tropics? |
| Dula Razzolini, Isabella | 2026 | Benedict, James | Untitled |
| Halpern, Jacob | 2025 | Guo, Fan | Particle Acceleration During Magnetic Reconnection with Coulomb Collisions |
| Krasowska, David | 2024 | McCormick, Patrick | Task-Based Programming for Processing in Memory HPC Clusters |
| Lee, Brandon | 2024 | Guo, Fan | Acceleration of Nonthermal Plasmas by Magnetic Reconnection |
| Mitchell, Grant | 2026 | Petersen, Mark | Diagnosing Numerical Mixing in Omega |
| Nalluri, Prani | 2026 | Van Roekel, Luke | Parameterizing the mesoscale contribution to turbulent air-sea heat fluxes in E3SM |
| Scholl, Cameron | 2025 | Xu, Chonggang | Predicting future synchrony between tree bud break and egg hatch of a major forest pest in northeastern US. |
| Zorek, Sophia | 2025 | Hampel-Arias, Zigfried | Uncertainty Quantification of Hyperspectral Neural Radiance Fields for High Consequence Remote Sensing Applications |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bready, Conor | 2026 | Aubry, Taylor | Evaluating The Spatial Dependencies of Reorganization Energies |
| Carbonero, Alvaro | 2026 | Barrows, Clayton | How to efficiently solve transmission expansion models with security constraints |
| Delgado Granados, Luis | 2025 | Ha, Mai-Anh | Exploring the reaction pathway of nitrogen reduction to ammonia with alpha-Fe2O3 (1-12) as a catalyst |
| Lechowicz, Adam | 2024 | Comden, Joshua | Distribution Grid Incentive Design with Unknown Agent Behavior |
| Melendez-Rivera, Joshua | 2024 | Aubry, Taylor | Controlling activity, selectivity, and stability of (photo)electrocatalysts via tuning of the fermi-level by mechanical strain and applied potential |
| Rasmussen, Melissa | 2024 | Young, Ethan | Extending Fluid-Structure Interaction Codes for Floating Photovoltaic Arrays |
| Villatoro, Cristian | 2025 | Sprague, Michael | Developing multi-fidelity machine learning models for off-shore wind turbine platform designs |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abadie, David | 2026 | Lupo Pasini, Massimiliano | Scaling and Expanding the Scope of Radial Charge Distribution-based Atomistic Descriptors |
| Bellavita, Julian | 2025 | Kannan, Ramakrishnan | Forward Error Bounds and Efficient Algorithms for Computing a Tensor Times Matrix Chain in Low Precision on GPUs |
| Chambliss, Amelia | 2024 | Peles, Slaven | Transient stability of fusion power plants on the electric grid |
| Dockery, James | 2026 | Norman, Matt | Optimizing the Design Parameters of Modified Spectral Finite Volume Methods |
| Keller, Abigail | 2024 | Carter, Evin | Optimizing microhydropower installation in the Qualla Boundary |
| Moncayo, Stefanie | 2026 | Hettich, Robert (Bob) | Toward Reliable Differential Proteomics in Complex Biological Systems |
| Rasmussen, Melissa | 2026 | Hix, William Raphael | Restarting multidimensional Castro core-collapse simulations in Flash-X |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gallenstein, Raven | 2026 | Cheung, Margaret | PTMdiscoverer Pipeline |
| White, Sienna | 2024 | Hetland, Rob | How is surface salinity in the Puget Sound affected by atmospheric rivers? |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gade Jr, Thomas | 2023 | Hager, Robert | Verification of low-n resistive tearing mode physics in the electromagnetic X-point Gyrokinetic Code (XGC) |
| Gade Jr, Thomas | 2026 | Hager, Robert | Investigating Spectral Methods on Uneven Meshes and Simulating 2,1 Tearing Modes in Large Apsect Ratio Toroidal Plasmas Using XGC |
| Lee, Jackson | 2026 | Martirez, John Mark | Implementing Projector-Based Methods for Capped Density Functional Embedding Theory |
| Sullivan, Jamar | 2026 | Juno, James | Implementing Nonlinear Implicit Time Stepping in Gkeylll |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller, Aaron | 2025 | Chen, Jacqueline | Foundation models for chemically reacting flows |
| Raskin, Levi | 2026 | Bennett, Janine | Strong classical baselines diminish quantum-enhanced Markov-chain advantage. |
| Rodriguez, Cameron | 2025 | Tezaur, Irina | Exploring the domain decomposition-based coupling of high-fidelity and operator inference models |
| Name | Year | Practicum Supervisor | Practicum Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addala, Vaishnavi | 2026 | Hines, Jordan | Modeling and Simulating Small Coherent Leakage Errors in Clifford Circuits |
| Brophy, Alli | 2026 | Bochev, Pavel | Investigating the Stability of Coupling Transient Heat Equations With Dynamic Mode Decomposition Flux Surrogates |
| Dubey, Mohit | 2025 | Taylor, Mark | SCREAM if You Love -5/3: Kinetic Energy Spectra and HRRR-Based Evaluation of the E3SM Global Storm-Resolving Model |
| Erwin, Gage | 2026 | Baczewski, Andrew | Simulating Thermal State Preparation with Tensor Networks |
| Holmgren, Benjamin | 2025 | Parekh, Ojas | Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Token Graphs |
| Larsen, James | 2026 | Baczewski, Andrew | Parallel Autoregressive Neural Quantum States for Quantum Chemistry |
| Rios, Gabriel | 2024 | Taylor, Mark | Evaluating the accuracy of the Zhang-MacFarlane deep convective parameterization in the grey zone of a global atmospheric model |
| Rios, Gabriel | 2025 | Taylor, Mark | Evaluating and implementing modifications to the Zhang-MacFarlane deep convective parameterization in E3SM |
| Taylor, Maya | 2025 | Pearson, Carl | Conjugate Gradient Iterative Solver on Tenstorrent's Wormhole |
| Tumlin, Anne | 2025 | Fragkos, George | Integrating Statistics and Physics for Informed Cyber-Physical Feature Development in FACETS |