
Asantha Cooray
Principal Investigator
acooray (at) uci.edu
Office: FRH-2162
Postdocs
Ye Cao
Postdoctoral Fellow
SPHEREx
Graduate Students
Thomas Li
2nd Year Physics Graduate Student
Jatin Chopra
1st Year Physics Graduate Student
Undergraduate Students
James Buda
Undergraduate Researcher
Research in Theoretical and Observational Cosmology
Marco Cheng
Undergraduate Researcher
Research in Observational Cosmology, Instrumentation Design
Daiki Narimoto
Undergraduate Researcher
Research in Instrumentation Design
Jonathan Furumizo
Position
Research in Instrumentation Design
Stewart Smith
Postbaccalaureate Researcher
Reaseach in Observational Cosmology and Space Systems
Maia Parker
Undergraduate Researcher
Micayla Willis
Position
Rouiela Valencia
Postbaccalaureate Researcher
Kai Cooray
Undergraduate Researcher
Research in Observational Cosmology
Roger Chen
Position
Research in Machine Learning
Xinmei Xu
Position
Research in Machine Learning
Oscar Ortiz
Undergraduate Researcher
Past Members
- Nima Chartab, Postdoctoral Fellow (20xx-20xx)
- Derek Nathaniel Diaz Wilson, Graduate Student (20xx)
- Arianna S. Long, Graduate Student (20xx)
- Amy Ralston (20xx)
- Dr. Hooshang Nayyeri, Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2018) and SPHEREx Project Scientist (2018-2020); Now at Amazon
- Dr. Milad Pourrahmani, Graduate Student (2020); Now at Caltech
- Dr. Nicholas Timmons, Graduate Student (2019)
- Dr. Jingzhe Ma, Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019); Now at Harvard CfA
- Dr. Chang Feng, Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017)
- Dr. Ketron Mitchell-Wynne, Graduate Student; Now Senior Data Scientist at Surfline
- Dr. Caitlin Casey, McCue Postdoctoral Fellow of Cosmology (2013-2015); Now at University of Texas, Austin
- Dr. Julie Wardlow, Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2013); Now at Lancaster University
- Dr. Yan Gong, Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2015)
- Dr. Francesco De Bernardis, Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2013)
- Dr. Alexandre Amblard, Postgraduate Research Fellow (2005-2007) and Herschel Project Scientist (2007-2010); Now at NASA
- Dr. Paolo Serra, Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2010); Now at NASA
- Dr. Naoki Seto, Project Scientist (2005-2007); Now at NAOJ, Japan