Group

I have been fortunate to work with a talented group of students and postdocs, listed below with where they are now.

SMU undergraduates and prospective Ph.D. students interested in cosmology are welcome to get in touch.

Current members

Ph.D. Students

• Joshua Perez (2024–present)
• Alvin Leluc (2023–present)
  • Texas Section APS award for outstanding graduate oral presentation, 2024
  ORCID INSPIRE

Undergraduates (First-Year Research Experience)

• Nikita Karthik (2026–present)
• Aidan Premirelli (2026–present)

Former members

Postdocs

• Victor Chan (2024–2025)
  • Earlier a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, 2018–2023 (research supervised at CITA)
  • Now: Echologics, Toronto
  ORCID INSPIRE
• Joseph Ryan (2021–2024)
  • Now: Instructor, University of South Carolina
  ORCID INSPIRE
• Cynthia Trendafilova (2019–2022)
  • Next: CAPS Fellow, UIUC
  • Now: Postdoc, Case Western Reserve University
  ORCID INSPIRE

Graduate Students, SMU

• Brandon Stevenson, Ph.D., co-supervised (2020–2026)
  • Now: Innovative Signal Analysis, Dallas
  INSPIRE LinkedIn
• Eric Guzman, Ph.D. (2018–2023)
  • SMU Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship
  • Next: AI Engineer, Honeywell
  • Now: Data Scientist, Travelers Insurance
  ORCID
• Jasmine Liu, Ph.D. student, co-supervised (2022–2024)
  • Now: Goldman Sachs
  LinkedIn
• Antone Amalbert, Ph.D. student, co-supervised (2023–2024) LinkedIn
• Michael Litke, M.S., co-supervised (2022–2023)
  • Next: Ph.D. program, University of Hawaii
• Ishwita Saikia, Ph.D. student, co-supervised (2022–2023) LinkedIn

Graduate Students, CITA (research supervisor)

• Alex Laguë, University of Toronto (2018–2019)
  • Now: Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
  ORCID INSPIRE
• Selim Hotinli, Imperial College London (2016–2020)
  • Now: Postdoc, Perimeter Institute
  ORCID INSPIRE
• Matthew Wilson, University of Toronto (2016)
  • Next: Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2022
  ORCID INSPIRE
• Derek Inman, CITA (2013–2014)
  • Now: Postdoc, RIKEN

Undergraduates, SMU

• Christopher Cook (2024–2026)
  • Goldwater Scholar, 2025
  • Now: Ph.D. student (fellowship), UT Austin
  ORCID INSPIRE
• Joshua Ange (2022–2025)
  • Goldwater Scholar, 2023
  • Churchill Scholar, 2025
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2025 and 2026
  • Now: Ph.D. student, Columbia
  Website ORCID INSPIRE
• Noah Pearson (2019–2021)
  • Robert S. Hyer Award, 2020
  • Now: Ph.D. student, Montana State University
  ORCID INSPIRE LinkedIn
• Keillian Davis, First-Year Research Experience (2025–2026)
• Danna Alden, First-Year Research Experience (2025–2026)

Undergraduates, CITA

• Connor Sheere (2016–2018) INSPIRE LinkedIn
• Brayden Mon (2017)
• Harrison Winch (2016) LinkedIn
• Vivian Britto (2014) INSPIRE
• Shenglin Jing (2012–2013)