Class of 2025

Senior research topics, honors, and what's next:

Rachel Leia Bailey, MON, HONORS, BS-PHYS Advisor: Vahle “Muon Simulation Improvements in the NOvA Far Detector”
Mia Pearl Bridges, HONORS, PBK, BS-PHYS Advisor: Aubin “Measuring the 5D Excited Energy Levels of Rubidium Atoms Using Laser Spectroscopy”
Russell Alan Burns, HONORS, PBK, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Mordijck “Predicting the Current-Voltage Sweeps of PINQUED for a Cylindrical Langmuir Probe”
Tracey Harrison Callis, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Schniepp “Designing a 4D-Printer for Materials with Locally Tunable Anisotropy”
Nelson Xunyang Campos, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Mikhailov “Design and Implementation of Single and Quadruple Langmuir Probes for PINQUED”
Connor Joseph Cassidy, HONORS, PBK, BS-PHYS/MATH; SM Advisor:Jackura “The Role of Single Pion Exchange in the Binding of the Omega Meson”
Ryan Thomas Craig, BS-PHYS/HIST Advisor: Mordijck “Plasma Characterization with Langmuir Probe Data”
Safiyah Jenan Dandashi, PBK, BS-PHYS/MATH; AM Advisor: Aubin “Design and Construction of a Well-Collimated Rubidium Effusive Oven”
Olivia Renno Diederich, BS-PHYS/JAPN Advisor: Qazilbash “Elusive High-Temperature Superconductors”
Denis Furletov, HONORS, PBK, BS-PHYS/CSCI Advisor: Stevens “Partial Wave Analysis of the Photo Production Gamma p -> K+ Lambda0”
Fiona Anne Gordon, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Frey “Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring with Photoplethysmography”
Zhiqing Guo, BS-PHYS; MS Advisor: Novikova “Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy of Metastable Helium: Exploring Polarization and Magnetic Field Interactions at 1083nm”
Evan Bradley Jackson, HONORS, BS-PHYS Advisor: Armstrong “Calibration of Tracking Measurements of the MOLLER Experiment”
Brian Thomas Janicki, BS-PHYS/CSCI Advisor: Schniepp “Characterization and Application of Didymosphenia Geminata Derived Materials”
Paul Graham Johnson, BS-PHYS;MS Advisor: Vahala “Challenges and Approaches in Developing Unitary and Dissipative Quantum Algorithms for the Lorenz System”
Eli Schlossberg-Kunkel, BS-PHYS/MATH; AM Advisor: Erlich “Lorentz Invariance in Stochastic Quantum Field Theory”
Rylen David Latosky, BS-PHYS Advisor: Stevens “Jefferson Lab’s (DACERI) DAta CEnter Robot Inspector”
Joab Mauldin Lesesne IV, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Frey “Racing USV: Design and Development”
Connor Earl Martin, HONORS, PBK, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Yang“Machine Learning and Digital Interface Design in an A.I. Power Synthesizer”
Erin Latham Mcdonald, HONORS, BS-PHYS; EPAD/CAMS; BT “A Machine Learning Approach to Optical Based Blood Pressure Reading” Advisor: Frey
Verona Leura Miller, MON, HONORS, BS-PHYS Advisor: Averett “Pressure Broadening in an Alkali-Metal Vapor in the Presence of a High Pressure Buffer Gas”
Kaitlin Ebbe Molloy, MON, BS-PHYS Advisor: Stark “Trapping Conditions of Charged Particles in Dipole and Gravitomagnetic Fields”
Zachariah Alexander Morris, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Frey “Racing USV: Design and Development”
Garison Karl Batangan Obcemea, BS-PHYS; EPAD/CSCI Advisor: Schniepp “Designing a 4D-Printer for Materials with Locally Tunable Anisotropy”
Aaron Ostenfeld, HONORS, PBK, BS-PHYS/MUSC Advisor: Vahle “Benchmarking Computer Learning Characterization of NOvA Test Beam Detection Events”
Rahul Kishore Pamadi, HONORS, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Yang “Analog Design of an AI-Assisted Synthesizer”
Sebastain Y Parker, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Schniepp “Designing a 4D-Printer for Materials with Locally Tunable Anisotropy”
Rafael Francesco Ruiz, MON, BS-PHYS Advisor: Vahle “Electron Scattering Simulations with Geant4: Theoretical Comparisons and Learning Applications”
Ethan Edward Sabol, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Frey “ Racing USV: Design and Development”
Sarah Morgan Sasinowska, HONORS, BS-PHYS Advisor: Aubin “Suppressing Current Deviations via the AC Skin Effect”
Emma Porter Small, HONORS, BS-PHYS; EPAD/CAM; BT Advisor: Frey “Continuous Blood Pressure Sensing with Photoplethysmography”
Aidan Thomas Smith, BS-PHYS; EPAD/GOVT Advisor: Frey “Racing USV: Design and Development”
Liam Michael Staker, MON, PBK, HONORS, BS-MATH; SM/PHYS “Surveying Approaches to Black Hole Theory and Quantum Gravity” Advisor: Erlich
Sophie Barclay Strauss, MON, BS-PHYS Advisor: Dudek “Predicting Expected Energy Spectra from Hadron-Hadron Scattering Models Using the Lüscher Condition”
Qiyuan Su, HONORS, PBK, BS-PHYS/INRL Advisor: Novikova “Study of Rydberg EIT Resonance for Local Measurement of Electric Field”
Isla David Thomas, MON, BS-PHYS/MATH; SM Advisor: Erlich “Asymptotic Safety in Quantum Field Theories with Deconstructed Dimensions”
Samuel James Turner, BS-PHYS; EPAD Advisor: Mikhailov “Design and Implementation of Single and Quadruple Langmuir Probes for PINQUED”
Skylar Dakotah Walker, PBK, BS-PHYS; EPAD/CSCI Advisor: Frey “Building an Unmanned Surface Vehicle”
Zhiyu Zhou BS-PHYS Advisor: Luepke “Temperature and Thickness Dependence of MOKE in Co50Fe50 Alloy”