# Advising ## Graduate Student Advising With so many collaborators at SEAS, it has been great to be part of multiple graduate students’ PhD committees. I’ve been part of the PhD qualifying exam committee and PhD dissertation committee for students advised by David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei, Vijay Janapa Reddi, H. T. Kung, Robert Wood, Marko Lončar, and Donhee Ham. To the Harvard grad students reading this: feel free to invite me to be part of your committee, or let me know any time you’d like to talk about your research and potential collaborations! - **Current Doctoral Students (I am their Primary Adviser)** - Mariam Elgamal. Post-Quals. 4th Year Graduate Student. - Georgios Kyriazidis. Post-Quals. 4th Year Graduate Student. - John Davis. Pre-Quals. 3rd Year Graduate Student. - Jalil Morris. Pre-Quals. 3rd Year Graduate Student. - David Kong. Pre-Quals. 3rd Year Graduate Student. - Danielle Grey-Stewart. Pre-Quals. 2nd Year Graduate Student. - Moboluwagbe (Bolu) Adesanmi. Pre-Quals. 1st Year Graduate Student - **Doctoral Student Rotations** - Rita Abani, Advised by Professor Jennifer Hoffman, ES 299r planned for Spring 2025. - Danielle Grey-Stewart, Advised by Professor Jennifer Hoffman, ES 299r, Spring 2024. Transferred to my research group afterwards. - Xiangying Zuo, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) student rotation, Fall 2023. - TomHenry Reagan, Advised by Professor Donhee Ham, ES 299r, Fall 2023. - John Davis, ES 299r, Fall 2022. Transferred to my reseach group afterwards. - **Doctoral Dissertation Committee** - Lillian Pentecost, PhD, Harvard, 2022. Advised by Professors David Brooks and Gu-Yeon Wei. - **Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committee** - Letícia Magalhães, 2024. Advised by Professor Marko Lončar. - Alicia Golden, 2024. Advised by Professors David Brooks and Gu-Yeon Wei. - Christian Chan, 2024. Advised by Professor Robert Wood. - Nadir Talha, 2024. Advised by Professor Donhee Ham. - Néstor Cuevas, 2023. Advised by Professors David Brooks and Gu-Yeon Wei. - Shvetank Prakash, 2022. Advised by Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi. - Matthew Adiletta, 2022. Advised by Professors David Brooks and Gu-Yeon Wei. - Mark Mazumder, 2022. Advised by Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi. - Vikas Natesh, 2022. Advised by Professor H. T. Kung. - Andrew Sabot, 2022. Advised by Professor H. T. Kung. - Yuchang Zhang, 2022. Advised by Professor Donhee Ham. - **Visiting Scholars** - Jui-Hung Chang, Visiting PhD Candidate through the Taiwan Study Abroad Program, from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), 2023 - 2024. - **Masters Students (Research Advising)** - John Bourland, SM 2024, Harvard University. - Arnav Srivastava, SM 2023, Harvard University. - **Masters Students (Thesis Reader)** - Alex Dyer, SM 2024, Harvard University. ## Undergraduate Student Advising Getting involved in research as an undergraduate is an all-around win for everyone involved. Of course, undergrads can get a taste of what it feels like to do research, i.e., trying to figure out questions and problems that no one has figured out before. This is quite different vs. working through homework for classes, and requires development of a different set of skills. Research experience especially valuable for undergraduates interested in the possibility of pursuing graduate school. Undergraduate researchers are also highly valuable for our research group, since they (you) help to advance our research mission, and gives our PhD students a chance to gain experience as mentors in advising research projects. As such, we support undergraduates in our research group through a variety of programs that Harvard has to offer. We have supported students through a wide variety of mechanisms. - **Undergraduate Students (Research Advising)** - J. Ikechukwu (Ike) Ogbu, Harvard College Research Program (HCRP), Summer 2024. - David Garcia, Harvard College Research Program (HCRP), Summer 2024; Independent Research, Summer 2023. - Arjun Batra, Independent Research, Summer 2024; Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE), Summer 2023; Undergraduate Research for Credit (ES 91r), Spring 2023. - Melinda Modisette, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI), Summer 2024; Harvard College Research Program (HCRP), Summer 2023. - John Bourland, Undergraduate Research for Credit (ES 91r), Fall 2023. - Oriana Gjini, Undergraduate Research for Credit (ES 91r), Fall 2023. - Rodrick Shumba, Undergraduate Research for Credit (ES 91r), Spring 2023. - Yasmine Omri, Independent Research, Fall 2022. - Molly Bosworth, Harvard College Research Program (HCRP), Summer 2022. - Kathryn (Kade) Kelsch, Summer Internship, Summer 2022. - Arnav Srivastava, Harvard College Research Program (HCRP), Summer 2022. - Tianyu (Jet) Zhao, Independent Research, Summer 2022. - Jonathan Collins, Undergraduate Research for Credit (ES 91r), Spring 2022. - Charles Lego, Undergraduate Research for Credit (Physics 90r), Fall 2021. - Samantha DePaolo, Independent Research, Summer 2021. - Natalie Martin, Independent Research, Summer 2021. - **Undergraduate Senior Project Advising (ES 100) -** ***see the end of this section for more information about ES 100 advising*** - Arjun Batra, 2024 - 2025. - David Garcia, 2024 - 2024. - Oriana Gjini, 2024 - 2025. - Melinda Modisette, 2024 - 2025. - Rodrick Shumba, 2024 - 2025. - Ezenia Diaz-Lembert, 2024 (off-cycle). - Yasmine Omri, 2023 - 2024. **ES 100 Dean's Award winner.** - Anna Ramos, 2023 - 2024. **ES 100 Dean's Award honorable mention.** - Michael Stankovich, 2023 - 2024. - Egemen Bostan, 2022 - 2023. **ES 100 Dean's Award honorable mention.** - Aaron Chin, 2022 - 2023. **ES 100 Dean's Award honorable mention.** - **Post-Baccalaureate Students** - Dawn Bordenave, 2021 - 2023. - **Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Students** - Matthew Arcarese, from University of Arizona, Summer 2024 - **Research Fellows** - Jaspreet Kaur Pawa, Undergraduate Research Fellow, from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani), 2021. - **Electrical Engineering Concentration Advising** - Langa Siziba, 2024. - Elianne Sacher, 2022 - 2024. - Arba Shkreli, 2022 - 2024. - Michael Stankovich, 2022 - 2024. - **Freshman Advising (Board of First Year Advisers)** - Dandi Desta, 2024 - 2025. - Brayden Lee, 2024 - 2025. - Lillie Tyrrell, 2024 - 2025. - Jonathan Waldorf, 2024 - 2025. - Matteo Cagliero, 2023 - 2024. - Ben Fortuin, 2023 - 2024. - Seager Hunt, 2023 - 2024. - Angelina Wong, 2023 - 2024. - Jacobo Alvarez Martinez, 2022 - 2023. - Adolfo Balderas, 2022 - 2023. - Joaquin Castro-Balbi, 2022 - 2023. - Daniel Kocot, 2022 - 2023. - Kyra Mo, 2021 - 2022. - Faith Rounds, 2021 - 2022. - Lana Wagner, 2021 - 2022. - Kimberly (Rain) Wang, 2021 - 2022. **ES 100 Senior Project Advising** I am proud that my ES 100 advisees have received high recognition. In particular, Yasmine Omri won the Dean’s award in 2023-2024, and Anna Ramos, Egemen Bostan, and Aaron Chin all received honorable mentions for Dean’s awards, in 2023-2024 (Anna), and 2022-2023 (Egemen and Aaron). I’ve attached pictures of the awards ceremonies below, with Dean David Parkes (2024) and Dean Frank Doyle (2023). ![deans-2024-winners](/sites/g/files/omnuum8181/files/nanodesign/files/deans-2024-winners.png) ![deans-2024-honorable-mention](/sites/g/files/omnuum8181/files/nanodesign/files/deans-2024-honorable-mention.png) *ES 100 Dean's Award honorable mentions in 2024, together with SEAS Dean David Parkes (on the right). My advisee Anna Ramos is in the center.* ![deans-2023-honorable-mention](/sites/g/files/omnuum8181/files/nanodesign/files/deans-2023-honorable-mention.png) *ES 100 Dean's Award honorable mentions in 2023, together with SEAS Dean Frank Doyle (4th from the the right). My advisees Aaron Chin and Egemen Bostan are 3rd and 4th from the left.*To the undergraduates: let me know *early* if you would like to do your ES 100 project with me! So far at Harvard, I have been wide open to doing projects with everyone who has asked. HOWEVER, this led me to advising a record-breaking *six* ES 100 projects in the the fall 2024 semester! Moving forward, I’d like to target 1-2 ES 100 projects per year. If you’re interested to do your ES 100 project together (I likely know who you are, based on independent research and summer research we have done together), please submit a 2 page ES 100 project proposal to me at least 1 month before the ES 100 project deadline. There is no specific format – just send me the proposal that you were going to submit to the ES 100 staff anyway. That way, in case there are more projects than I have time to advise, that gives you time to find an alternative adviser if need be. Thank you!