Current members:
Emily Bregou (2nd year PhD student)
Owen Chase (3rd year PhD student)
Yonny Sklansky (3rd year PhD student)
Emilie Thelie (TCCAP fellow)
Mahdi Qezlou (HETDEX fellow)
Kuan Wang (HETDEX fellow)
Alessandra Venditti (CFC fellow)
Jed McKinney (independent Hubble fellow)
Past Students:
Hector Cruz (PhD 2025 JHU -> Simons Junior Fellow CCA/NYU).
Chris Shallue (PhD 2025 Harvard -> Google AI)
Wenzer Qin (PhD 2024 at MIT -> Simons Junior Fellow NYU).
Dashon Jones (undergraduate at UMass Lowell -> PhD at Rice).
Nash Sabti (PhD 2023 at KCL->Postdoc JHU).
Nick Deporzio (PhD 2023 at Harvard -> Postdoc BU).
W. Linda Xu (PhD 2022 at Harvard->Postdoc Stanford).
We also interact with other UT Austin groups, including those led by Mike Boylan-Kolchin, Karl Gebhardt, John Chisholm, and Kim Boddy (Physics). We are part of the Cosmic Frontier Center, Cosmic AI, and the Weinberg Institute. If you’re interested in opportunities for joining the group, either as a PhD student or postdoc please reach out!