{"id":9,"date":"2024-10-29T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/gravity\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:28:02","slug":"group-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/gravity\/group-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Current group members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current group members<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-card-wrapper wsu-card-wrapper--per-row-3\" >\r\n    \n<article class=\"wsu-card\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wsu-image-frame wsu-image--ratio-1-1\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3502\/2024\/10\/Wu-Kexuan-2-396x264-1.jpg\"\r\n\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3502\/2024\/10\/Wu-Kexuan-2-396x264-1.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3502\/2024\/10\/Wu-Kexuan-2-396x264-1-198x132.jpg 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class=\"wsu-card__content\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"wsu-title \">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t         Matthew Van Dyke\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wsu-caption\">\r\n\t\t\t            (Senior, Physics major)\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/article>\n\n<article class=\"wsu-card\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wsu-image-frame wsu-image--ratio-1-1\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3502\/2024\/11\/benMcDonald.jpg\"\r\n\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3502\/2024\/11\/benMcDonald.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3502\/2024\/11\/benMcDonald-396x594.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3502\/2024\/11\/benMcDonald-792x1188.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3502\/2024\/11\/benMcDonald-768x1152.jpg 768w, 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Dupree<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shaon Ghosh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bernard Hall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ryan Magee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aaron Rogan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shawn Seader<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dipongkar Talukder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Praveer Tiwari<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bhaskar Biswas*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kabir Chakravarti*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunil Choudhary*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sayak Datta*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shalabh Gautam*\u2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tathagata Ghosh*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anuj Mishra*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Samanwaya Mukherjee*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Khun Sang Phukon*<sup>\u00b6<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vaishak Prasad*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Javed Rana*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shreya Shah*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading wsu-font-size--xmedium\">Past undergraduate students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wsu-list--columns-3\">\n<li>Bernard Hall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jon Leiner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sarah Myers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Noel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Svend Sorensen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. Aneesh*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Varun Srivastava*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sumeet Kulkarni*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shreya Anand*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abhishek Das*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Soumi De*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rahul Dhurkunde*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reetika Dudi*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sourath Ghosh*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sreekanth H.*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shivani Harer*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasanna Joshi*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sujay Mate*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tanmay Mishra*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amlan Nanda*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Purnima Narayan*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Akshat Singhal*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shelby Taylor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading wsu-font-size--xmedium\">Past postdocs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wsu-list--columns-3\">\n<li>Iouri Gusev<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nairwita Mazumder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasanta Char*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anuradha Gupta*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bharat Kumar*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arunava Mukherjee*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remya Nair*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mandar Patil*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prasia Pankunni*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fatemeh Nouri*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shristi Tiwari*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>\u2020<\/sup> This list is in the process of being compiled. Please email us if your name is missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Mentored at IUCAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b6 Co-advised with Dr. Pankaj Jain, IIT-Kanpur.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u2021 Co-supervisor: Dr. David Hilditch, CENTRA, Lisbon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current group members Our alumni\u2020 Past graduate students Past undergraduate students Past postdocs \u2020 This list is in the process of being compiled. 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