Alumni

Master's degree

• Melissa Baiocchi (2024/8 graduated): HELIX (Cosmic-ray experiment)
  • Thesis: "Thermal Modeling, metrology, and hodoscope development for the High Energy Light Isotope eXperiment"

​​​​​​​Undergraduate Researchers

• Gabrielle Barsky-Giles: NSERC USRA fellow/Summer Research student (2024) 
  • HELIX drift chamber tracker calibration
• Kaan Sun: SWEP fellow/Summer Research student (2024) 
  • HELIX flight data database; HELIX drift chamber tracker simulation
• Anthony Sandhar-Cruz: Summer Research student (2024) 
  • High-energy neutrino telescope simulation, geant4 simulation for table top experiments 
• Gabriel Huyer: Summer Research student (2023) 
  • Thermal simulation of drift chamber detector for HELIX balloon experiment; Setup of thermal-vacuum chamber; RICH refractive index measurements;
• Cora Neave: Mitacs fellow/Summer Research student (2023) 
  • Thermal simulation of CubeSAT satellite and balloon payload.
• Rebecca Dudley: MI SWEP fellow/Summer Research student (2023) 
  • Silicon PM IV measurement automation; Thermal environment setup
• Jack Macaulay: Summer Research student (2022) 
  • Thermal & optical laboratory setup for photosensor testing  
• Alex Galvin: McDonald Institute Summer Research and Outreach Fellow (2022) 
  • Neutrino alert database, VME module setup
• Tai Withers: McDonald Institute Summer Research and Outreach Fellow (2021) 
  • Fermi-LAT analysis pipeline, neutrino alert database