Dvorkin Group

Group meetings are held on Fridays at 1:15 pm at Lyman 330.

I dedicate a specific effort to maintain a diverse population in my group of students and postdocs.

Group seminars:

Past and upcoming Open group seminars

Current graduate students:

• Aizhan Akhmetzhanova (Ph.D. candidate)
• Prish Chakraborty (Ph.D. candidate)
• Shu-Fan Chen (Ph.D. candidate)
• Luca Gómez Bachar (PhD student co-advised at ITeDA, Argentina)
• Anmol Raina
• Gemma Zhang (Ph.D. candidate)

Current undergraduate students:

• Nino Ephremidze

Former graduate students working in my group:

• Dr. Nick Deporzio (now at Boston University as a Society of Fellows postdoc).
• Dr. Ana Diaz Rivero (now at D. E. Shaw as a Quantitative Researcher).
• Dr. Georges Obied (now at Oxford University as a postdoctoral fellow).
• Dr. Cagan Sengul (now at University of Pittsburgh as a Langley postdoctoral fellow).
• Dr. Arthur Tsang (->”Twig Energy”, company on battery optimization and renewable energy in Copenhagen).
• Dr. Weishuang (Linda) Xu (now at Stanford as a KIPAC fellow).

Former undergraduate students working in my group:

• Maya Burhanpurkar (now at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar).
• Lucía Gordon (now at Harvard University as a Computer Science Ph.D. student).
• Sebastián Wagner-Carena (now at the Flatiron Institute as a Flatiron Research Fellow).

Former postdocs working in my group:

• Dr. Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (now at University of New Mexico as an Assistant Professor).
• Dr. Hayden Lee (now at UPenn as an Assistant Professor).
• Dr. Siddharth Mishra-Sharma (now at Boston University as an Assistant Professor).
• Dr. Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah (now at CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research) as tenure-track faculty).
• Dr. Julian Muñoz (now at UT Austin as an Assistant Professor).
• Dr. Bryan Ostdiek (now at Microsoft as a Data and Applied Scientist).
• Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (now at University of Chicago as a Schmidt postdoctoral fellow).

Former visiting postdocs in my group:

• Dr. Azadeh Maleknejad (from Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, MPA; spring 2020)