Congratulations to our new PhD Candidates!

Congratulations to our graduate students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year:

Atmospheric Physics Program

Adeleke Segun Ademakinwa,
Advisor: Zhibo Zhang
"Can biased cloud retrievals due to the 3-D radiative effects provide reasonable radiative energy estimates? A closure study based on satellite observations and radiative transfer simulations"

Kamal Aryal,
Advisor: Pengwang Zhai
"Efficient retrieval of aerosol and ocean water properties from multiangle polarimetric measurements over coastal waters using Neural network"

Emily Faber,
Advisor: Adriana Rocha Lima
"Impacts of Surface Winds on Dust Emissions: Comparison of Measurements and Models to Improve Model Parameterization and Further Understanding of Sub- Grid Processes"

Maurice Roots,
Advisor: Belay Demoz
"Dynamics and Chemical Processes within Coastal Domains: Synergy of surface, profiling, and column datasets for air quality science"

Physics Program

Carson Evans,
Advisor: Todd Pittman
"Experimental Storage of Entangled Photons in Cyclical Quantum Memories"

Akram Ibrahim,
Advisor: Can Ataca
"Understanding Growth of Low-dimensional Materials using Multi-scale Modeling and Machine Learning"

Binod Joshi,
Advisor: Yanhua Shih
"Two-photon Beats of Thermal State with Broadband Spectrum"

David Kanaar,
Advisor: Jason Kestner
"Quantum control in silicon qubits in the presence of errors and physical constraints"

All were honored at the Graduate School's Annual PhD Candidates Ceremony on October 21, 2022.