The following is a listing of people with whom I work on various research projects at the University of Florida.
Graduate Students
Michelle Edwards -- Thesis topic: Instrumentation for and observations of massive stellar environments of magnetars; PhD expected 2008
Valerie Mikles -- Thesis topic: Searches for and studies of jet-producing black hole systems; PhD expected 2008
Miguel Charcos -- Thesis topic: Instrumentation and observations for spectropolarimetry of relativistic jets; PhD expected 2009 Curtis DeWitt -- Thesis topic: The FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey; PhD expected 2009-2010 Mark Keremedjiev -- Project topic: Simulations of stabilized-speckle spectroscopy and applications to supermassive black holes; Second year project in 2007-2008 Nestor Lasso -- Project topic: Instrumentation and observations of high-speed flickering in microquasars; Second year project in 2008-2009
Staff Scientists
Dr. Reba Bandyopadhyay -- Assistant Scientist
Dr. S. Nicholas Raines -- Assistant Scientist
Engineers & Technicians
Greg Bennett -- Mechanical Engineer
Kevin Hanna -- Electrical Engineer
Jeff Julian -- Mechanical Engineer
Roger Julian -- Project Manager
Charlie Murphey -- Mechanical Engineer
Craig Warner -- Software Engineer
Group Alumni
Dr. John Wilson -- former postdoctoral fellow (Cornell 2000-2002); staff scientist at University of Virginia (2003-)
Dr. Dae-Sik Moon -- PhD 2003 (Cornell); Millikan Postdoctoral
Prize Fellow at Caltech (2003-2006); Asst. Prof. at U. Toronto (2006-)
Dr. Joseph Carson -- PhD 2004 (Cornell); postdoctoral fellow at JPL (2004-2007); SPHERE team at MPIA-Heidelberg (2007-)
Dr. Jami Meteer -- PhD in Electrical Engineering 2004 (Cornell) jointly supervised w/E. Kan; engineer at Intel Corp (2005-)
Dr. David Rothstein -- PhD 2006 (Cornell), jointly supervised with R. Lovelace; NSF postdoctoral fellow at Cornell (2006-)
Dr. Antonio Marin-Franch -- former GTC postdotcoral fellow (2003-2006); Juan de la Cierva prize fellow at IAC (2006-)
Dr. David Clark -- PhD 2007 (Florida); UNAM postdoctoral prize fellow at IA-UNAM Ensenada (2007-)
Shannon Patel -- forrmer research assistant (2003-2004); graduate student in astronomy at UC Santa Cruz (2004-)
Jessica Lavine -- graduate student (2003-2005); scientist at Raytheon Corp (2005-)
Mindy Jo Robinson -- graduate student (2003-2004); graduate student in oceanography at USF (2004-)
Previous Undergraduate Students (partial listing -- contact me if your name should appear here!)
Dana Alexander
P. Brian Cameron -- grad student at Caltech
David Dror
Ben Fierce
Will Fischer -- grad student at UMass-Amherst
Jonathan Foster -- grad student at Harvard
Megan Garske -- grad student at Washington
Dounan Hu
Malia Jackson -- poet/blogger in San Francisco
Ryan Karins
David Kull
Alfred Lee
Laura Lopez -- grad student at UC Santa Cruz
Vincent Luh
Garrett Mason
Catlin Nchako
Shannon Patel -- grad student at UC Santa Cruz
Rishon Saftler
Dmitry Savransky -- Mars rover jockey at Cornell
Kevin Schavinsky-Guiton -- grad student at Oxford
Jeremiah Shipman
Brienne Shkedi