Former Students:
Interaction is an important part of my research. Consequently, I have
written few single author papers. Below I list the young people -- students
and postdocs -- I have
worked in the past.
Students. There were a number of students who were supervised by
a colleague with whom I interacted with during their PhD period. For those
who were co-supervised I mark by "*". For those whom I provided data or
interacted on specific projects I mark by "#".
Some postdocs were Prize fellows for whom I was either the nominal supervisor
or took active interest. I have marked such entries also with "#".
If you know the homepages of anyone below please let me know. On the
other hand, please also let me know if you think that I have overlooked
you or that you object to being on this list.
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Anderson, Stuart (PhD 1993; Advisor: T. A. Prince)#
"A Study of Recycled Pulsars in Globular Clusters"
Staff Member, LIGO Caltech
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Berger, Edo (Phd 2004)
"Gamma Ray Bursts: The Beast and Lair"
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
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Bhalerao, Varun (PhD 2012; Primary advisor: F. Harrison)
"Neutron stars and NuSTAR"
Asst Professor of Physics, IIT Bombay, India
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Bloom, Joshua Simon (PhD 2002)
"Towards an Understanding of the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Professor, University of California, Berkeley,
Co-founder, Wiso.io
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Bochenek, Christopher
(PhD 2021)
"The Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts"
Google Corporation
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Bottom, Michael
(PhD 2016; initially advised by J. Johnson)
"Characterization of Extra-solar planets by coronagraphy"
Faculty, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
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Busch, Michael (PhD 2010)
"Shapes & Spins of near-earth asteroids"
Research Scientist,
SETI Institute, 8129 Michaelbusch
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Cao, Yi (PhD 2016)
"Cosmic Explosions: Observations Of Infant Hydrogen-Free Supernovae Towards An
Understanding Of Their Parent Systems"
Google Corp, Santa Clara
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Cameron, P. Brian (PhD 2008)
"Astrometry with Adaptive Optics"
Director, Sensor Modeling,
The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, Virginia
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Cenko, S. Bradley (PhD 2008; F. Harrison)*
"Gamma ray bursts"
Deputy Project Scientist, Swift X-ray Observatory,
Goddard Space Flight Center, Md
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Danner, Rudolf ("Rolf") (PhD 1996; A. J. Buras)*
"X-ray Emission from Old Neutron Stars"
North Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles
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Ho, Anna Y. Q.
(PhD 2020)
"The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions"
Miller Fellow, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
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Jacoby, Bryan (PhD 2005)
"Precision Pulsar Timing"
The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, Virginia
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Jensen-Clem, Rebecca
(PhD 2017)
"A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration"
Miller Fellow, UC Berkeley
Assist. Professor, U. C. Santa Cruz
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Johnston, Helen (PhD 1992)
"Compact Objects in the Disk and Globular Clusters"
Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Sydney, Australia
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Kaplan, David Laor (PhD 2004)
"Diversity in Neutron Stars"
Professor, University Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Kasliwal, Mansi Manoj (PhD 2011)
"Transients in the Local Universe"
Assist. Prof, Astronomy, Caltech
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Lane, Benjamin F. (PhD 2003)
"High Precision Stellar Interferometry"
Group Leader, Henry Draper Laboratory, Cambridge
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Mooley, Kunal P. (PhD 2015; G. Hallinan)*
"Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky: The Search for
Slow Transients with the VLA"
Jansky Fellow, Caltech
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Nakajima, Tadashi (PhD 1989; G. Neugebauer)*
"Diffraction-Limted Imaging on the 200-inch Telescope"
Staff Astronomer, National Astronomy Observatory, Japan
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Navarro, Jose (PhD 1994)
"A Wide-bandwidth Pulsar Timing Machine"
Chief Scientist,
Kongsberg Norcontrol IT, Norway
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Oppenheimer, Rebecca (PhD 1999)
"Direct Detection of Brown Dwarf Companions of Nearby Stars"
Curator & Professor, American Musueum of Natural History, NYC
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Price, Paul (PhD 2003; B. Schmidt, MSO)*
"Gamma Ray Bursts"
Astronomical Software Scientist, Princeton University
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Rand, Richard (PhD 1991)
"The Relationship Between the Density Wave, Molecular Gas and
Star Formation in M51"
Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Ray, Paul #(PhD 1995; Principal Advisor: T. A. Prince)
"High Sensitivity Searches for Radio Pulsars"
Staff Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory
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Sandhu, Jagmit Singh (PhD 2001)
"High Precision Dual Frequency Timing of Millisecond Pulsars"
(co-directed by R. N. Manchester)
Staff Member, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
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Soderberg, Alicia Margarita (PhD 2007)
"GRB-Supernova connection"
Associate Professor, Astronomy Department, Harvard University
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Tendulkar, Shriharsh (PhD 2013)
"Beyond the blur: Construction and characterization of the first autonomous
AO system and An AO survey of magnetar proper motions"
Assistant Professor, TIFR, Colaba, India
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Vasisht, Gautam (PhD 1998)
"The Many Faces of Neutron Stars"
Staff Member, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Wasczack, Adam (PhD 2015; co-advised by T. A. Prince)
"Solar System Small-Body Demographics with the Palomar Transient Factory
Survey"
Senior Director of Data Science at 605, New York, New York
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Wiktorowicz, Sloane (PhD 2008)
"Unambiguous Black Hole Mass from Polarimetry & Application
to Hot Jupiters"
Member of the Technical Staff
The Aerospace Corporation
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Yao, Yuhan
(PhD 2023; co-supervised by F. Harrison)
"High Energy Transients Powered by Black Holes"
Miller Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
Temporal order:
Nakajima* (1989),
Rand (1991),
Johnston (1992),
Anderson* (1993),
Navarro (1994),
Ray* (1995),
Danner (1996),
Vasisht (1998),
Oppenheimer (1999),
Sandhu (2001),
Bloom (2002),
Lane (2003), Price* (2003),
Berger (2004), Kaplan (2004),
Jacoby (2005),
Soderberg (2007),
Cameron (2008), Wiktorowicz (2008), Cenko* (2008),
Busch (2010),
Kasliwal (2011),
Bhalerao (2012),
Tendulkar (2013),
Waszczak (2015),
Mooley (2015),
Bottom (2016),
Cao (2016),
Jensen-Clem (2017),
Ho (2020),
Bochenek (2011),
Yao (2023)
Postdoctoral Scholars (Chronological Order):
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Steve Thorsett , Millikan Fellow, 1991-1994
President, Willamette University, Salem, OR
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Chris Haniff, NATO Fellow, circa 1990
Professor, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
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Tadashi Nakajima, Post-doctoral fellow, 1993-1996?,
Staff Astronomer, National Astronomy Observatory, Japan
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M. Vivekanand, Senior Postdoc, 1991-1992 (funded by Navy?),
Staff Astronomer,
National Centre for Radio Astronomy, India (retired, Bangalore)
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J. Anthony Phillips, Post-doctoral Fellow, 1992-1994,
SpaceWeather.com
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Xiao-Pei Pan, 1987-1997?
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, now retired
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Fiona Harrison,
1993-1995, Millikan Fellow (#), 1993-1995,
now Chairperson of Physics, Mathematics & Astronomy, Caltech
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Thomas T. Hamilton , LTSA Fellow, circa 1994-1998,
Rand Corporation,
Santa Monica, California
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Marten van Kerkwijk, , Hubble Fellow, 1994-1996
Faculty, Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, Canada
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Victoria Kaspi, Hubble Fellow, IPAC (#), 1994-1996
Professor, Department of Physics, McGill University, Canada
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J. Christopher Clemens Fairchild Fellow (#)
Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, U. North Carolina
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Michelle Creech-Eakman, Postdoctoral Fellow,
Faculty, Department of Physics, New Mexico Insituting of Mining
Technology, Socorro, NM
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Chris Koresko, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA (last known)
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Alan Diercks, Millikan Fellow
Senior Scientist,
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle (LinkedIn)
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Titus Galama Fairchild Fellow, 1999-2002
RAND Corporation; Senior Economist at USC, Los Angeles
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Daniel Reichart Hubble Fellow, 2000-2002
Faculty, Department of Physics & Astronomy, U. North Carolina
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Maria Osorio-Zapatero , 1999-2002? (Keck grant for Mt. Wilson)
Astronomer, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain
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Matthew Britton, Postdoctoral Fellow 2000-2003
Senior Engineering Specialist at The Aerospace Corporation,
Los Angeles
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Jean-Luc Margot, Postdoctoral Fellow 2000-2004
Professor, Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
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Robert Rutledge , Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000-2004 (#)
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics, McGill University
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James Lloyd (Millikan Fellow) 2002-2004
Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
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Derek Fox
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2005
Professor of Astronomy, Pennsylvania State
University, State College, PA
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Chris Gelino, IPAC, Caltech
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Maciej Konacki (Michelson Fellow, Research Fellow) 2000-2005
Professor, Copernicus Astronomical Center,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Torun
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Dae-Sek Moon(Millikan Fellow) 2003-2006
Professor of Asronomy, University of Toronto, Canada
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Mike Ireland (Michelson Fellow 2005-2007)
Staff Astophysicist, Australian National University, Australia
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J-P Macquart
(Jansky Fellow, 2004-2007)
Senior Lecturer, Curtain University, Perth, Australia
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Arne Rau
(Postdoc Fellow, 2005-2008)
Athena/WFI Project Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Extra-terrestrial
Physics, Garching, Germany
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Nick Law,
Postdoc (PTF Project Scientist), 2006-2009
Asst. Professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Eran Ofek
(postdoc 2007-2009, Einstein 2010-2011)
Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
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Robert Quimby
(postdoc 2007-2011)
Associate Professor, San Diego State University;
Director, Mt. Laguna Observatory
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Alessandra Corsi , postdoc 2010-2012(#)
Associate Professor, Physics, Texas Tech University,
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Assaf Horesh , (postdoc, 2010-2013)
Asst Professor, Rachah Institute of Physics, University of Jerusalem
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Christoph Baranec,
Junior and Senior postdoc, PI: Robo-AO, (2007-2013)
Associate Professor, IfA, Hawaii
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Nick Konidaris, postdoc (2011-2013), PI: SED Machine
Staff Astronomer, Carnegie Observatories, Carnegie Science
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Sumin Tang (postdoc, 2012-2014),
Data Scientist, Facebook, Bay Area, California
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Sarah Burke Spolaor, (2013-2014)
Asst. Professor, West Virginia University, WV
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Dan Perley, (Hubble Fellow, 2011-2014, 2015)
Faculty in Astrophysics, Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool, UK
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Samaya Nissanke, TAPIR Fellow (#), circa 2011-2014
Faculty in Astronomy & GRAPPA , University of Amsterdam, NL
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Eric Bellm,
Postdoctoral Fellow (NuSTAR and later ZTF Project Scientist)
[co-mentor: F. Harrison]
Research Professor in Astronomy, University of Washington,
Seattle
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Harish Vedantham,
Millikan Fellow, 2015-2018
Staff Scientist,
ASTRON, The Neterlnads
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Vikram Ravi, Millikan Fellow, 2015-2018
Assistant Professor, Astronomy, Caltech
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Nadejda (Nadia) Blagorodnova, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2018
VENI Fellow, Radboud University, Netherlands
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Dmitri Duev, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2018
Staff scientist, Caltech (2018-2021
Weights & Biases, Inc
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Michael Coughlin, Lee Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2019
Assistant Professor, U. Minneosat, Minneapolis
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Igor Andreoni,
Post-doctoral Fellow, 2018-2021
Neil Gehrels Fellow, GSFC
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Wenbin Lu,
Walter Burke Fellow, 2018-2021
Lyman Spitzer Fellow, Princeton University
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Przemek Mroz, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021
Asst Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland
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Jan van Roestel, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2022
VENI fellow, Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam
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U. Christoffer Fremling , Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2022
Staff Member, Palomar Observatory
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Ben Roulston, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023
Faculty, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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Ilaria Caiazzo, Walter Burke Fellow (2019-2024),
Faculty, Insitute for Science & Technology, Austria
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Liam D. Connor,
Tolman Research Scholar (2020-2024),
Faculty, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University
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