Yale Sigma Pi Sigma Inductees

2025

Nathan Apfel


Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Research Project: "Axisymmetric excitations of superfluid vortices"

Diego Aspinwall


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Saybrook College

Timothy Atkeson


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Hong Tang
Research Project: "Phase-Locking in a Fiber Optic Squeezed Light Setup"

Aaron Chizhik


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Music
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Karsten Heeger

William Cho


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Steven Konezny

Adrian Hall


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Joe Howard

Henry Kaplan


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Laura Havener

Reece Kirkpatrick


Major(s): Physics; Political Science
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Steve Lamoreaux

Quazi Rumman Rahman


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Edurado Higino da Silva Neto

Alex Roseman


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Steven Zucker
Research Project: "Maniforld Inference"
2024

Matt Bruning


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Yehia Khalil
Research Project: "Root Cause Analysis of the Nuclear Accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi"

Jessie Chen


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Computer Science
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Meng Cheng
Research Project: "Lindbladian Dynamics in Open–System Phase Transitions with Strong-to-Weak SSB"

Sri Devulapalli


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Charles Bailyn
Research Project: "ML Classification of XRB Spectral and Timing Properties"

Kameron Duncan


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Jack Harris
Research Project: "Measuring Femtometer Displacement in High-finesse Cavity Optomechanics"

Elsa Durcan


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); History Science, Medicine & Public Health
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Reina Maruyama
Research Project: "Superconducting Nanowire Electron Detectors for the RAY Experiment"

Sofia Fausone


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics & Philosophy
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Joe Howard
Research Project: "Data-Driven Discovery of Governing Equations: Microtubule Dynamic Instability"

Sofie Fusco


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Steven Konezny
Research Project: "Exploring Copper-Thiocyanate (CuSCN) as a Hole Transport Layer in Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cells (PVCs)"

Sophia Getz


Major(s): Economics; Physics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Juan Lora
Research Project: "Modeling Climate Impacts of Deforestation in the Amazon"

Michael Lee


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: "Investigating the Zak Transform and its applications to Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) quantum error correction"

Michael Lin


Major(s): Physics; Economics
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Reina Maruyama
Research Project: "Synthetic Signal Injection Routines for the Haloscope At Yale Sensitive to Axion Cold Dark Matter (HAYSTAC)"

Ben McDonough


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics (Intensive)
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: "Tensor-network perspectives on gauging SPT phases"

Rachel Merrill


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Trumbull College
Advisor: Stephen Irons and Alison Sweeney
Research Project: "Investigating the Impact of Introductory Lab Experiments on Students' Physics Self-Efficacy"

Eitan Meir Minsky-Fenick


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Michael Loewenberg
Research Project: "Unsteady-State Particle Distribution in Poiseuille Flow"

Luke Mozarsky


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Statistics and Data Science
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Helen Caines
Research Project: "Tuning the Herwig 7.2 Monte Carlo Event Generator using Professor 2.0"

Alexa Pan


Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: L.A. Paul
Research Project: "Cooperating with Changing Selves: A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Self-Modifying Rational Agents"

Pranav Parakh


Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: "Design, Testing, and Fabrication of a Cavity Shield & Simulation of Trajectory States"

Rose Powers


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: "Photon Energy Resolution Studies for a 10TeV Muon Collider"

Juan Recoaro


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Jack Harris
Research Project: "Probing Supercooled Water with a Magnetic Levitation Platform"

Michael Sacks


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Simon Mochrie
Research Project: "Recovering 3-Dimensional Loci Dynamics with Multiple Particle Tracking"

Varun Varanasi


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Statistics and Data Science
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Jun Korenaga
Research Project: "Investigation of Autocatalytic Reaction Networks"

Elizabeth Welch-Jani


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Spanish
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: "Corrected Luminosity Distribution for AGN at Redshift 1"

David Wells


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Trumbull College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Research Project: "Phase impriting a vortex on an ultracold fermi gas"

Barkotel Zemenu


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: David Moore
Research Project: "Characterizing the Outgassing of Electronegative Impurities in nEXO"
2023

Olivia Aspegren


Major(s): Physics-Intensive with Distinction
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: "The Relative Sensitivity of eROSITA, Chandra and XMM-Newton to Heavily Obscured AGN"

Eric Chavez


Major(s): Physics; Spanish (Intensive)
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Steven Konezny
Research Project: "PTAA Solar Cells"

Nikhil Harle


Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: "Exploring the Computational Complexity of Hilbert Space and Phase Space with Numerical Simulations"

Tausif Hossain


Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: "The Mu2e Trigger Rates Analysis and Data Quality Monitor Development"

Richard Li


Major(s): B.S., Physics (Intensive) with Distinction
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: "Hybrid Qubit-Bosonic Mode Quantum Computers and Cat-State Amplification"

Helena Lyng-Olsen


Major(s): Physics with Distinction; English
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Mary-Louise Timmermans

Neal Ma


Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Diana Qiu
Research Project: "Modelling Two-Dimensional HfSe2 and the Screening Effects of HfO2"

Claire Recamier


Major(s): Physics with Distinction
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Nikhil Padmanabhan
Research Project: "Investigating Fuzzy Dark Matter through Stellar Streams"

Kohsuke Sato


Major(s): Physics with Distinction
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Charles Baltay

Yu Jun Shen


Major(s): Electrical Engineering with Distinction; Physics with Distinction
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Abhishek Bhattacharjee
Research Project: "Investigation of Variational Quantum Eigensolver techniques in Qiskit"

Alejandro Simon


Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction; Computer Science
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Abhishek Bhattacharjee
Research Project: "A Quantum Algorithm for the Leaky Competing Accumulator"

Tristan Weaver


Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction; Mathematics (Intensive)
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Meg Urry
2022

Sami Alves


Major(s): Physics; Computer Science
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Damon Clark

Keon Azar


Major(s): Physics; Economics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Gregory Laughlin
Research Project: "Conducting simulations of multi-exoplanet systems in order to characterize their orbital dynamics and constrain their masses"

Amanda Butler


Major(s): Astronomy; Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Daisuke Nagai

Jack Chapman


Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Mark Gerstein
Research Project: "Applying Quantum Neural Networks to Problems in Bioinformatics "

Jeff Cieslikowski


Major(s): Political Science; Physics
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Alexey Fedorov
Research Project: "Physical Forcings of ENSO under a Warming Climate"

Rebecca Dai


Major(s): Physics; History
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Helen Caines

Sarah Dickson


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: David Moore
Research Project: "Detection of Whispering Gallery Modes in Optically-Levitated Microspheres"

Ryan Flynn


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Daisuke Nagai
Research Project: "Shattering in the Intergalactic Medium in TNG100"

Luke Grossman


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Nir Navon

Matt King


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics (Intensive)
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Advisor: Bonnie Fleming
Research Project: "Pion Absorption Cross Section Measurement in Liquid Argon"

Charlie Mayhew


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); History
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: David Moore

Jack McArthur


Major(s): Chemistry; Physics
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Diana Qiu
Research Project: "Molecular dielectric embedding GW for ionically bonded hybrid perovskites"

Georgia Michelman


Major(s): Physics; History
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Meg Urry

Daniel Qenani


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Keith Baker
Research Project: "Quantum K-Means Algorithm for Signal Processing of H → ZZ* → 4l as Proof of Quantum Entanglement"

Annika Salmi


Major(s): Physics; Astronomy
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Meg Urry

Will Sun


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: "Generating Qubits with QGANs"

Jiawei Tang


Major(s): Physics; Applied Mathematics
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College

Ben Togni


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Meg Urry

Charlie Uchno


Major(s): Physics; Economics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Alison Sweeney

Jean Wang


Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics & Philosophy
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: "Frequency Stability of Oscillator Systems"

Grace Zdeblick


Major(s): Mathematics; Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: "Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning"

Yiming Zhang


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Jack Harris
Research Project: "Building a Optomechanical Platform for Eigenvalue Braids and Knots"

Laura Zhou


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Nir Navon
2021

Amer Al-Hiyasat


Major(s): Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Physics
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Jonathon Howard
Research Project: "A Non-Equilibrium Mechanism of Spastin's Accumulation on Shrinking Microtubule Tips"

Nicholas Archambault


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Juan Lora (EPS)
Research Project: "An Energy Balance Model of Moist Static Energy Flux on Titan"

India Bhalla-Ladd


Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: "M2T: Late-Projected Transverse Mass Calculation in a Search for VH,H→ττ in ATLAS Run 2"

Joe Brownsberger


Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: "Evaluating Retrocausal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics"

Shoumik Chowdhury


Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: "Investigating multi-photon nonlinear resonances and dynamical effects in driven superconducting qubits"

Caleb Clothier


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Michel Devoret

Krish Desai


Major(s): Mathematics (Intensive); Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Thomas Appelquist
Research Project: "String Theory"

Noah Goodman


Major(s): Physics; Humanities
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College

Teddy Hague


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Research Project: "Electromagnetic Sensor Assembly in Yale's Ultracold Quantum Laboratory"

Gabe Hoshino


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Reina Maruyama
Research Project: "Measurements with a Desktop Muon Detector"

Shantanu Jha


Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: "Universal Control of Weakly Coupled Cavity-Transmon System"

Derek Kuldinow


Major(s): Mechanical Engineering; Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Juan da la Mora
Research Project: "Cluster Sizing Studies in a Diffusive Condensation Particle Counter"

Alex Lathem


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: David C. Moore
Research Project: "Outgassing of Electronegative Impurities in nEXO Candidate Polymers"

Lucy McEwan


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Shelly Lesher
Research Project: "Erbium 168 Transition Probabilities from Lifetime Measurements"

Shaun Radgowski


Major(s): Physics; East Asian Studies
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Shruti Puri
Research Project: "State-Overlap Hamiltonians in QAOA: Performance Advantage for Quantum Machine Learning"

Sajan Ramanathan


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Advisor: Laura Newburgh
Research Project: "Ringmap Statistics for the CHIME Telescope"

Isabel Sands


Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Nikhil Padmanabhan
Research Project: "Linear Approximations to UltraLight Dark Matter Stationary States"

Sukhman Singh


Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Steve Lamoreaux
Research Project: "Signal Processing Techniques for the HAYSTAC Experiment"

Tyler Tavrytzky


Major(s): Engineering Science-Mechanical; Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Mark Reed
Research Project: "Merit of Nanowire Biosensors to Detect Pathogenic Organisms"

Miles Waits


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: "Determining the Dependence of AGN Obscuration on Redshift and Luminosity"

Chris West


Major(s): Physics; Computer Science & Mathematics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Julie Zimmerman
Research Project: "Energy Demand of Supercritical Nanoparticle Synthesis Using Ethanol and Water"

Ben Zolkiewicz


Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Trumbull College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: "Project to be completed"