Group
I have had the good fortune of mentoring talented postdoctoral and graduate researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, many of whom have gone on to careers in academia, national laboratories, and industry.
Current members
Graduate Researchers
- Dekang Meng, Georgia Tech, Fall 2024 – present
- Rosemary Barrass, Georgia Tech, Summer 2024 – present
- Young-Ho Cho, UT Austin, Summer 2024 – present
- Rohit Dube, Texas A&M University, Spring 2023 – present
Former members
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr. Rohit Kannan, 2021 – 2023 (CNLS Postdoctoral Fellow; deterministic global optimization and learning for nonconvex optimization)
- Dr. Kshitij Girigoudar, 2022 – 2023 (Robust optimization in unbalanced distribution grids; co-mentor)
- Dr. Haoxiang Yang, 2019 – 2021 (CNLS Postdoctoral Fellow; optimal power flow in distribution networks under stochastic disruptions)
Graduate Researchers
- Rylan Malarchick, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Summer 2026
- Rie Huntington, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2026 (CNLS Summer Fellow)
- Irfan Ullah, Texas A&M University, Spring 2024 – 2026
- Agustin Castellano, Johns Hopkins University, Summer 2025
- Sumin Kang, Virginia Tech, Spring 2025 (NSF Non-Academic Research Internship)
- Hannah Moring, University of Michigan, 2023 – 2025
- Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Arizona State University, Fall 2024
- Fatih Cengil, University of Arkansas, 2021 – 2024
- Neelkamal Somisetty, Texas A&M University, 2021 – 2024
- Erin George, UCLA, 2023 (Applied ML Summer Fellow)
- Zhirui Hu, George Mason University, 2023
- Mithun Goutham, Ohio State University, Summer 2022 (CNLS Summer Fellow)
- Zsolt Szabo, Macquarie University, 2022
- Elena Henderson, Southern Methodist University, 2021 – 2022
- Owen Lockwood, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2021
- Cheng Guo, University of Toronto, 2020 – 2021
- Minseok Ryu, University of Michigan, 2019
- Manuel Garcia, UT Austin, 2018
- Siddharth Bhela, Virginia Tech, 2018
- Site Wang, Clemson University, 2016 – 2018
- Saikrishna K. Hari, Texas A&M University, 2017
- Ole Kröger, Heidelberg University, 2017
- Mowen Lu, Clemson University, 2015 – 2017
- S. Chalil Madathil, Clemson University, 2015 – 2017
- Fei Wu, Ohio State University, 2016