I’m a third year PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at CU (Fall 2021-current). Education: B.S., Physics (Minors in Computer Science & Mathematics), Carthage College, 2020 Conference Presentations: Bartel, N., T. Matsuo, B. J. Anderson, and S. K. Vines (2023), Interhemispheric Asymmetry of Field-Aligned Currents Determined by Principal Component Analysis of AMPERE-Iridium NEXT Magnetometer Data (poster), GEM Workshop , June 11-16, San Diego, CA. Bartel, N., T. Matsuo,...
I’m a fifth year PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at CU (Fall 2019-current). I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Florida in Aerospace Engineering with minors in Math and Physics. In undergrad, I worked on multiple satellite projects including DebriSat which sought to improve satellite break-up models and LISA which seeks to measure low-frequency gravitational waves caused by massive cosmic events. In summer 2017, I...
I'm a second year PhD student in the Applied Mathematics (APPM) Department at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder (Fall 2022-current). Before joining the APPM PhD program, I worked as a staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on inverse problems for determining the composition of the ocean floor and modeling wind speed and direction fluctuations over the ocean. Education: M.S., Applied Mathematics and Computational Mathematics , Johns...
I am a PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department (Spring 2019-current). My research interests are the application of statistical inverse theory, the day-to-day variation of middle and low latitude electrodynamics and plasma behaviors, and the analysis of the magnetometer data and ionospheric ion density data. My current research focuses on assimilating magnetometer data into a numerical model of the ionosphere and thermosphere to investigate major equatorial ionospheric phenomenons...
I’m a second year PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at CU (Fall 2022-current). Education: B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Iowa, 2022 Awards, Honors, and Fellowships: AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award, "Pulsating Aurora Borealis Identification Using Wavelet Scattering and Neural Networks", NG46A-04, AGU Fall Meeting , Chicago, December 12-16, 2022.
I am a PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at CU Boulder. I work as GRA at LASP under the research mentorship of Dr. Laila Andersson, while pursuing a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences under the academic mentorship of Prof. Tomoko Matsuo. Education: M.S., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder, 2022 B.S., Astrophysics, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder, 2017
I am currently pursuing a MS degree in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at CU Boulder. I received a BS Degree in Aerospace Engineering from CU Boulder in May 2023. Education: B.S., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder, 2023 Presentations: Brandon Dilorenzo (2022), My Experience in Undergraduate Research at CU Boulder, 3rd Center for Geospace Storms DRIVE Science Center Workshop , November 14-15, Laurel, MD.
Clayton Cantrall is now a Senior Research Staff at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. His PhD research was on the use of optical remote sensing technologies to improve our understanding and ability to predict processes at the upper boundary of Earth’s atmosphere. Education: Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder, 2022 M.S., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder, 2019 B.S., Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, 2015 Awards, Honors,...
Sierra Flynn works at LASP as a Flight Controller for the GOLD, TSIS, and EVE missions. She received a master degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Coloraod Boulder in 2017. MS Thesis: Flynn, S. (2017), Understanding the Variability in Thermospheric Nitric Oxide Flux Using Empirical Orthogonal Functions, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder. Publications: Flynn, S., D. J. Knipp, T. Matsuo, M. Mlynczak, and L. Hunt (2018), Understanding the...
Shay Gilpin is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona. Her overall research goal is to use mathematics to study problems in data assimilation and geoscience in an effort to further our understanding and develop practical solutions. Here is Shay's webpage https://sgilpin4.github.io/ . Education: PhD, Applied Mathematics, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Boulder, 2023 M.S. Applied Mathematics, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Boulder, 2022 B.A. Mathematics,...
Chih-Ting Hsu is currently a Project Scientist I at NCAR, and worked as a research associate with Prof. Tomoko Matsuo at CU Boulder in 2018-2019. She graduated from the Institute of Space Science, the National Central University, Taiwan. She visited Boulder while she was a graduate student and fell in love with this place, so she came back after receiving her PhD degree. She specializes in ionospheric radio occultation data...
Liam Kilcommons now works at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. He worked as a professional research assistant with Prof. Tomoko Matsuo and Prof. Delores Knipp at CU Boulder. He received a BS Degree in physics from the Colorado State University. Publications: Li, J., T. Matsuo, and L. M. Kilcommons, 2021: Assimilative Mapping of Auroral Electron Energy Flux using SSUSI Lyman-Birge-Hopfield (LBH) Emissions, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, under review,...
Jason Li works at MIT Lincoln Lab. He graduated with M.S. and B.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from CU Boulder in 2021. MS thesis: Li, J. (2021), Assimilative Mapping of Electron Flux using SSUSI Lyman-Birge-Hopeld Emissions, CU Boulder. Papers: Li, J., T. Matsuo, and L. Kilcommons (2021), Assimilative Mapping of Auroral Electron Energy Flux using SSUSI Lyman-Birge-Hopfield (LBH) Emissions, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, under review, https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10506769.1 Conference Presentations: Li,...
Willem Mirkovich is now pursuing a MS degree in Computer Science at New York University. He worked as a professional research assistant in the Prof. Tomoko Matsuo research group at CU Boulder. He received a BS Degree in Computer Science from CU Boulder in 2020. Presentations: Mirkovich, W., T. Matsuo, and L. M. Kilcommons (2020), Data-Driven Modeling of Polar Ionospheric Electrodynamics Using Convolutional Neural Networks (iPoster), AGU Fall Meeting , Virtual.
Akash Ratheesh Babu is now pursuing a PhD degree at Georgia Tech University. He worked as a professional research assistant in Prof. Tomoko Matsuo's research group at CU Boulder. He received a master degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from CU Boulder in 2020.
Fan Shen works at TikTok as a Software Development Engineer. She graduated with a PhD degree in Computer Science (Cyber Security) in 2023. She worked in Prof. Matsuo research group as a Software Engineer while pursuing a PhD degree under the academic mentorship of Prof. Levi Perigo and Prof. James Curry. PhD Thesis: Shen, F. (2023), Strategic Network Orchestration in Software-Defined Networking. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/docview/2861566890/D459AFF5294E43BBPQ
Si Shen now works for Amazon. He received a M.S. degree from the Computer Science Department at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder in 2019. He had closely worked with Prof. Tomoko Matsuo in the upper atmospheric data assimilation. He also has a Ph.D. degree in Meteorology from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in China. Independent study: Shen, S., 2019: An exploration of using graph-based SLAM for data assimilation problems, guided...
Yining Shi is a Research Associate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and received a PhD degree from the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Boulder in 2019. PhD thesis: Shi, Y. (2019), High-latitude Ionospheric Field-aligned Currents (FACs) Derived with Inverse and Assimilative Analysis of Iridium Magnetic Perturbation Data and New Insights Gained, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/docview/2365359978/9A401618B90A4B49PQ/ Publications: Shi, Y., D...
I work for ICON in Austin, Texas. I graduated in Spring 2023 with a M.S. degree in Space Resources from the Colorado School of Mines, and received a B.S. degree in Metallurgical and Material Engineering also from the Colorado School of Mines in 2021. I had the opportunity to work with Professor Tomoko Matsuo through an REU in Solar and Space Physics in the Summer of 2018. I have been...
