Current Research Projects

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Undergraduate	Research Advisor	Topic
Elizabeth Gutiérrez	Boylan-Kolchin	A Simulated Look into the First Stars in the Universe
Bryce Hobbs	Endl	Testing the Reliability of the Compressed Sensing Technique on Exoplanet Radial Velocity Data
Isaac Laseter	Finkelstein	Lyman Alpha Line Detection in the North Ecliptic Pole
Dustin Katzberg	Hawkins	The Chemical Homogeneity of Binary Stellar Systems
Alice Burington	Hawkins	Orbits of the Oldest Stars in the Milky Way
Anjana Telidevara	McQuinn	Characterizing the Star-Formation Rate and Gas in Dwarf Galaxies
Peter Smith	Morley	Optimal James Webb Space Telescope Configurations for Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres
Dhruva Karkada	Offner	Harnessing Machine Learning to Study Protostellar Outflows
Pranav Premnath	Wu/Bowler	Dynamical Mass Measurements of Young Stars With ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array)
Aniket Sanghi	Best	Constraining the Initial Mass Function of L0-T8 Brown Dwarfs using Population Synthesis Simulations
Zach Baker	Gebhardt	Automatic Data Classification using Machine Learning
Khavvia Shanmugasundararaj	Robinson	Distinguishing Lyman Alpha and O2 Lines in Spectra from HETDEX Data using Machine Learning
Zoe De Beurs	Kraus/Vanderburg	Removing Stellar Activity from RVs using Artificial Intelligence
Enrico Piperno	Guszejnov	Molecular Cloud Properties in Simulations of Spiral Galaxies
Delaney White	Finkelstein	HETDEX: Emission Line Completeness
Daniel Mock	Finkelstein	HETDEX: AGNs
Kendrick Mack	Finkelstein	JWST: Data Simulations