Congratulations Graduates: Class of 2022!

Sami Alves
Major(s): Physics / Computer Science
Advisor: Damon Clark
Residential College: Morse College
Niki Anderson
Major(s): Physics / Economics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Keon Azar
Major(s): Physics / Economics
Advisor: Gregory Laughlin
Research Project: Conducting simulations of multi-exoplanet systems in order to characterize their orbital dynamics and constrain their masses
Residential College: Pierson College
Plans: I plan to live and work in New York City.
Memorable or Interesting Moment: Going to night sky observation sessions at the Leitner Observatory
Amanda Butler
Major(s): Astronomy and Physics (Intensive)
Advisor: Daisuke Nagai
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Maria Canon
Major(s): Physics / Psychology
Advisor: Eduardo Higino da Silva Neto
Research Project: Investigating systematic errors and confidence levels in an algorithm measuring local lattice strain
Residential College: Davenport College
Antonio Cao
Major(s): Physics / Computer Science & Mathematics
Advisor: Owen Miller
Research Project: Finite Difference Time Domain Simulation on the Web
Residential College: Morse College
Robert Carter
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Steve Lamoreaux
Research Project: An Exploration in Improvements on the Cavendish Experiment
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Plans: Moving to Egypt! I’ll be living in Cairo
Memorable or Interesting Moment: I once remember cramming before my 440 midterm in the undergraduate physics lounge, and quite literally minutes before the exam I started to understand the material! It ended up being ok in the end, and I learned a lot, but I’ll never forget the stress of 440
Jack Chapman
Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Advisor: Mark Gerstein
Research Project: Applying Quantum Neural Networks to Problems in Bioinformatics
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Jeff Cieslikowski
Major(s): Political Science / Physics
Advisor: Alexey Fedorov
Research Project: Physical Forcings of ENSO under a Warming Climate
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Plans: After a gap year in DC, off to law school!
Memorable or Interesting Moment: Studying for intro physics on the chalkboards in SPL late at night, pretending I was working on the Apollo missions for NASA but in reality just calculating how fast a ball would fall on the moon
Sarah Dickson
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: David Moore
Research Project: Detection of Whispering Gallery Modes in Optically-Levitated Microspheres
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Aidan Donaghey
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: Simulating QNN on classical hardware
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Kunsang Dorjee
Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Advisor: Juan Lora
Research Project: A Large-Scale Cloud Diagnostic Scheme for the Atmosphere of Titan
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Eric Elftmann
Major(s): Physics
Advisor: Corey O'Hern
Research Project: Accuracy of Core Sidechain Packing in Computational Protein Models
Residential College: Saybrook College
Ryan Flynn
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Daisuke Nagai
Research Project: Shattering in the Intergalactic Medium in TNG100
Residential College: Morse College
Pablo Garza
Major(s): Physics
Advisor: Steve Lamoreaux
Residential College: Silliman College
Luke Grossman
Major(s): Physics
Advisor: Nir Navon
Residential College: Berkeley College
Matt King
Major(s): Physics (Int.) / Mathematics (Int.)
Advisor: Bonnie Fleming
Research Project: Pion Absorption Cross Section Measurement in Liquid Argon
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Plans: Research and Teaching (Ideally as a physics professor)
Memorable or Interesting Moment: In Physics 261, I gave Professor Girvin a package of Welch's fruit snacks at the beginning of class. He ripped it open, downed the entire package, chewed for a long time, then exclaimed, "Wow! These are really good!" He then proceeded with the class.
Hanbai Lyu
Major(s): Mathematics / Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Nir Navon
Residential College: Branford College
Charlie Mayhew
Major(s): Physics
Advisor: David Moore
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Jack McArthur
Major(s): Chemistry / Physics
Advisor: Diana Qiu
Research Project: Molecular dielectric embedding GW for ionically bonded hybrid perovskites
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Georgia Michelman
Major(s): Physics / History
Advisor: Meg Urry
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Daniel Qenani
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Keith Baker
Research Project: Quantum K-Means Algorithm for Signal Processing of H → ZZ* → 4l as Proof of Quantum Entanglement
Residential College: Davenport College
Annika Salmi
Major(s): Physics / Astronomy
Advisor: Meg Urry
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Matthew Schneider
Major(s): Physics
Advisor: Madhusudhan Venkadesan
Research Project: Experimental Set-up for Fish Fin Stiffness Research
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Plans: Undergraduate Pilot Training
Ema Smith
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Laura Newburgh
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Will Sun
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: Generating Qubits with QGANs
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Jiawei Tang
Major(s): Physics / Applied Mathematics
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Malcolm Tang
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Ben Togni
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Meg Urry
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Sebastian Tsai
Major(s): Physics (Int.) / Applied Mathematics
Advisor: George Fleming
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Charlie Uchno
Major(s): Physics / Economics
Advisor: Alison Sweeney
Residential College: Berkeley College
Jean Wang
Major(s): Physics (Int.) / Mathematics & Philosophy
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: Frequency Stability of Oscillator Systems
Residential College: Morse College
Grace Zdeblick
Major(s): Mathematics / Physics
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning
Residential College: Pierson College
Yiming Zhang
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Jack Harris
Research Project: Building a Optomechanical Platform for Eigenvalue Braids and Knots
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Plans: I will be pursuing a PhD in physics at MIT with a focus on experimental atomic, molecular, and optical physics.
Memorable or Interesting Moment: Walking into the Sachem’s Wood from YSB in the evening after lab.
Andrew Zheng
Major(s): Physics / Economics
Advisor: Reina Maruyama
Research Project: CUORE/CUPID Muon Veto Prototypes Testing and Analysis
Residential College: Trumbull College
Plans: Become a Professor someday.
Laura Zhou
Major(s): Physics (Int.)
Advisor: Nir Navon
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College