Congratulations Class of 2025!

Yale Physics congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2025, including:

Ph.D. 

December 2024 

• Sanah Bhimani, ‘24 (advisor Laura Newburgh), “From Site to First Light: OCS Deployment and Defining Detector Quality Metrics for the Simons Observatory SAT-MF1”
• Xinyi Chen, ‘24 (advisor Nikhil Padmanabhan), “Reconstruction of the initial conditions: improvements and applications to constraining dark energy and primordial non-Gaussianity”
• Yuxuan  Cheng, ‘24 (advisor Corey O’Hern),  “Computational Studies of Deformable Particles Flowing Through Constrictions”
• Viraaj Jayaram,  ‘24  (advisor Thierry Emonet), “Normative and Empirical Investigation of the Role of Odor Timing in Drosophila Olfactory Navigation”
• Samantha Pagan, ‘24 (advisor Karsten Heeger), “Physics on the keV Energy Scale with CUORE: A Search for Solar Axions”
• Jingjing Pan, ‘24 (advisor Keith Baker), “Exploring the Standard Model and Beyond Through the Lens of Jet Substructure and Machine Learning with the ATLAS Experiment”
• Will Tyndall, ‘24  (advisor Laura  Newburgh), “Drone Calibration Systems for 21 cm Cosmology Experiments”

May 2025 

• Sophia Hollick, ‘25  (advisor Reina Maruyama), “COSINE-100 and ANAIS-112: Two Experiments, One Search for the Annual Modulation of Dark Matter”
• Aniket  Maiti, ‘25 (advisor Robert Schoelkopf), “Controlling and protecting quantum information in superconducting oscillators”
• Shuhang  Pan, ‘25 (advisor Charles Ahn), “Fabrication and Characterization of Chalcogenide and Oxide Thin Films”
• Joseph Shomar, ‘25 (advisor Damon Clark), “Visual Circuits for Distance Estimation in Walking Drosophila”
• Zachary Sun, ‘25  (advisor Michael Murrell), “Mechanics and Energetics  of Cytoskeletal Assembly”
• Arina  Telles,  ‘25 (advisor Karsten  Heeger),  “Microwave Techniques for Neutrino Mass Measurement”
• Andrew Ton, ‘25  (advisor Corey  O’Hern), “Computational Studies of Tissue Development and Repair”
• Kabish Wisal, ‘25 (advisor A. Douglas  Stone), “Spatial Control of Nonlinear Interactions in Multimode Fiber”
• Tianyu Yuan,  ‘25 (advisor  Simon Mochrie), “Chromatin Architecture and Dynamics in Native Folding States”

Undergraduates

Mathematics & Physics

• Nathan Apfel^*+ (advisor Nir Navon), “Superfluid vortex excitations”
• Forrest Hutchison (advisor Chiara Mingarelli), “Targeted Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves”
• Misheal Saah (advisor Ian Moult), “Asymptotic Symmetries and Soft Theorems in Gravity: A Light-Ray Approach”

Physics

• Diego Aspinwall^*+ (advisor Amir Haji-Akbari), “Building a Computational Toolbox for Antifreeze Protein Design”
• Eli Bader^*+ (advisor Laura Newburgh), “Battery Hot-Swap System for Drone Calibration of Radio Telescopes”
• Grace Burton⁺ (advisor Laura Havener), “HRPPD Test Station for pfRICH at ePIC”
• Reece Kirkpatrick⁺ (advisor Steve  Lamoreaux), “Small Modular Reactors and Public Policy”  
• Jack Lloyd⁺  (advisor  Keith Baker), “Quantum Entanglement in High Energy Physics”
• Brody Nies^* (advisor Narasimha Rao), “Marginal Impacts of Heat Pump Adoption Under Various Subsidy Scenarios”
• Caleb Reske^* (advisor Thierry Emonet), “Inference and dynamics in state-space models for navigation behavior”
• Jacob Simmons^* (advisor Lea Winter), “Characterizing electrical properties of a non-thermal plasma with a liquid electrode”
• Austin Wang  (advisor Logan  Wright),  “Oppen: AI Code–Optimization Agent for Physics Research”

Physics (Intensive)

• Wayne  Ariston^*+  (advisor Nicholas Read), “Non-trivial eigenvalues of the Liouvillian in open quantum systems”
• Timothy Atkeson^*+ (advisor Hong Tang),  “Phase-Locking in a Fiber Optic Squeezed Light Setup”
• Aaron Chizhik⁺  (advisor Karsten Heeger), “Light Detector Testing for CUPID Alpha Background Identification”
• William Cho⁺ (advisor Steven Konezny), “Effects of Hydrogen on CuSCN Conductivity”
• Wade  Colley (advisor Steven Konezny), “Charge Transport Properties of the Electron Hole Material Copper-Thiocyanate (CuSCN) in Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cells (PVC)”
• Grant Fitez^*  (advisor Helen Caines), “Automation of LFHCal Tile Measurements”
• Adrian  Hall^*+ (advisor Joe  Howard), “Cooperative Targeting of Spastin to Microtubule Severing Sites”
• Lane Healy (advisor Steven Konezny), “Hydrogen Doping of CuSCN for Increased Conductivity”
• Henry Kaplan⁺  (advisor  Laura Havener), “Characterization of HRPPD tiles for the pfRICH detector at ePIC”
• JeHwan  Kim^*+ (advisor Damon Clark), “Investigating algorithms for motion detection in human eye movements and conscious perception”
• Wyatt Kremer  (advisor Meng Cheng), “Topological order in fractional quantum Hall states”
• Khelan Parikh^*  (advisor Hong Tang), “Quartz and 6GHz Lithium Niobate Ultrasensitive Mass Sensor for Solid Neon Crystal Growth”
• Roshan Pourghasemi (advisor James Duncan), “Physics Informed Neural Networks for Medical Image Registration”
• Quazi Rumman Rahman⁺  (advisor Eduardo da Silva Neto), “Towards Noise-Correlation Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (NC-ARPES)”
• Alex Roseman^*+  (advisor Steven  Zucker), “Optimal Transport to Compare Manifold Inference Results”
• Din-Ammar Tolj⁺  (advisor Daisuke Nagai),  “A Differentiable Model of Triaxial Dark Matter Halo Shape”

*indicates distinction in the major
+ indicates induction into Sigma Pi Sigma

For Commencement photos, see our Flickr album.