Mentoring

Students Mentored

As Primary Advisor
Undergraduate Students:

Determining the Mass and Radius of the White Dwarfs in Four Kepler Self-Lensing Binaries, 2023 – .

• Yassine Abaakil, Columbia University Undergraduate.

High School Students (through Columbia STAR and Harvard-MIT SRMP):

Can Life’s Fingerprints Survive on Mars?, 2025 – 2026.

• Tayeba Kafil, CSS 10th Grade.
• Meita Konate, CSS 10th Grade.
• Maxwell Lally, CSS 11th Grade.

Micrometeoroid Impact Rate Analysis for an Artemis-Era Lunar Base, 2024 – 2025.

• Nasiah Anderson, CSS 12th Grade, Currently a Lafayette College Undergraduate.
• Mark Driker, CSS 11th Grade.
• Kokoro Onuma, CSS 10th Grade.

Identifying Transit Timing Variations in Planetary Hierarchical Triples, 2022 – 2023.

• Farai Sundai, CRLS 10th Grade.
• Jiajing Liu, CRLS 12th Grade, Currently a University of Minnesota Undergraduate.
• Lila Valaskovic, CRLS 12th Grade, Currently a Colgate Undergraduate.

Modeling the Radial Velocities of Four Kepler Self-Lensing Binaries, 2020 – 2021.

• Mohammed Sakib, CRLS 11th Grade. Currently a Harvard Undergraduate.
• Tsion Tedla, CRLS 12th Grade, Currently a Boston University Undergraduate.
• Victoria Chen, CRLS 10th Grade, Currently a University of Toronto Undergraduate.

As Co-Advisor
Undergraduate Students:

Profile Likelihood Analysis of Transit Timing Variations, 2025 – 2026.

• John Moynihan, Columbia Undergraduate.

“Democratically” Detrending TESS M-Dwarfs, Summer 2022.

• Andrew Zhang, Columbia Undergraduate.
• Avishi Poddar, Columbia Undergraduate.
• Madison Li, Columbia Undergraduate.