People
Principal Investigator
Ajay Shah, Ph.D.
Position: Professor
Current Members
Arshad Ansari
Position: Visiting Scholar (Jul 2024 - Present)
Rebecca Delo
Position: UNIFY & PROBE Research Administrative Management Analyst (June 2025 - Present)
Meg Edwards
Position: Research Technician (Aug 2025 - Present)
Roberta Franks
Position: Program Assistant (Feb 2023 - Present)
Samuel Gamor
Position: PhD Student (May 2025 - Present)
Sanjeev Karki
Position: Visiting Scholar (Sept 2025 - Present)
Asmita Khanal, PhD
Position: Research Scientist (Oct 2023 – Present); Postdoctoral Scholar (May 2022 - Sep 2023); PhD Graduate Student (Spring 2022); MS Graduate Student (Summer 2018)
Michael Klingman
Position: Senior Design Engineer
Kevin Monk
Position: PhD Student (Aug 2023 - Present)
Parag Subhash Padekar
Position: MS Graduate Student (Aug 2025 - Present)
Birendra Bahadur Rana, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Scholar (Jan 2025- Present); Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar (Jul 2023 - Dec 2024)
Amit Prasad Timilsina, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Scholar (Nov 2022 - Present); Visiting Scholar (Aug 2022 - Oct 2022)
Alumni
Anirudh Akula, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher (Oct 2019 - Apr 2021)
Isamar Amador-Diaz
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2016)
Michael Balsman
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Apr 2022 – May 2023)
Nawa Raj Baral
Position: PhD Graduate Student (Fall 2016)
Suraj Kumar Bhagat, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate (Mar 2024 - Apr 2024); Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar (Sep 2023 - Feb 2024)
Zhifang Cui, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar (Jun 2017 - Jun 2018)
Sandeep Dhakal
Position: MS Graduate Research Associate (Aug 2022 - Dec 2024)
Xionghui Fei
Position: Visiting Scholar (Sep 2019 - Jan 2021)
Arthur Fontana
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2016; Summer 2017); High School Intern (Summer 2014)
Duncan Fontana
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2019)
Jiawei Ge
Position: High School Intern (Summer 2025; Summer 2024 - Dec 2024)
Akhila Gopal
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2015)
Suren Gourapura
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2016)
Debbie Hodson
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2023 - Spring 2024)
Luis Huezo Sanchez
Position: PhD Graduate Student (Spring 2020)
Victor Ionescu
Position: High School Intern (Summer 2025)
Sushobhan Joshi, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar (Aug 2021 – May 2023)
Andrea Landaverde
Position: Visiting Scholar (Spring 2018)
Lucas Larcomb
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2025)
Yangyang Li
Position: Visiting Scholar (Sept 2016 - Sept 2018)
Matt Lorentz
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2022)
Ashish Manandhar, PhD
Position: Research Scientist (Oct 2021 – Jul 2025); Postdoctoral Researcher (Aug 2019 - Oct 2021); PhD Graduate Student (Spring 2019)
Wilbert Mauser
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2023; Spring 2024)
Paschal Simon Milindi
Position: MS Graduate Student (Summer 2016)
Shreya Mishra
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2024)
Seyed Hashem Mousavi-Avval, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher (Fall 2020); PhD Graduate Student (Summer 2020)
Beenish Saba, PhD
Position: LEGACY Postdoctoral Scholar (Aug 2022 - May 2024)
Esha Shrestha
Position: Graduate Research Associate (May 2022 - Dec 2024); Visiting Scholar (Mar 2019 - Feb 2022); Research Associate (Aug 2017 - Feb 2019)
Shyam Sivaprasad
Position: MS Graduate Student (Spring 2021)
Haley Stockham
Position: MS Graduate Student (Summer 2021)
Ananta Prakash Subedi, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar (Jan 2025 - Apr 2025)
Jaden Tatum, PhD
Position: Visiting Scholar (May 2024 - Nov 2024); PhD Graduate Student (Spring 2024); PhD Candidate & Graduate Research Associate (Aug 2019 – May 2024)
Evan Thomas
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2023)
Megan Thomas
Position: Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2015)
Ashley Tomassetti
Position: Visiting Fellow (Summer 2025)
Juliana Vasco-Correa, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher (Aug 2017 - Dec 2019); PhD Graduate Student (Summer 2017)
Junqi Wang
Position: Visiting Scholar (Sep 2017 - May 2019)