Principal Investigator
Group Members

Rafaël Sarfati
Visiting Scientist
Applied Physics
B.S. / M.Eng., Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 2010
Ph.D., Yale University, 2017

Zihao Qi
Doctoral Candidate
Physics
B.Sc., Caltech, 2021

Toni Liu
Doctoral Candidate
Physics
B.Sc., Caltech, 2021
B.A. Wesleyan University, 2019

Jiajun Bao
Doctoral Student
Applied Mathematics
B.S., University of Washington, 2022
M.S., University of Chicago, 2024

Harshwardhan Praveen
Doctoral Candidate
Complex Systems
B.Tech, IIT, Hyderabad, 2019
M.Tech, IIT, Hyderabad, 2020

Dory Castillo-Peters
Doctoral Student
Applied Mathematics
B.A., Rutgers University-Newark, 2021
Past Group Members:
Rafaël Sarfati, Research Fellow, GOODFIRE, San Francisco, CA
Dominic Diaz, Director of Instructional Design, Break Through Tech, Cornell Tech, NYC
Jacob Brown, Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC
Tom Burns, AI Explainability Team, Aleph Alpha Research, Heildelberg, Germany
Robert Stephany, Sydney Fernbach Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
Christophe Bonneville, Postdoctoral Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
Hilarie Sit, Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University, Providence, RI
Wensi Wu, Research Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
John Chavis, Applied Mathematician, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Nicholas LaVigne, Data Scientist, URSA Space Systems, Ithaca, NY
Justyna Kosianka, Analytics Team Manager, URSA Space Systems, Ithaca, NY
Yolanda Lin, Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Andrew Loeb, Operations Project Leader, Moog, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Vasileios Fountoulakis, Manager – Casino Marketing Analytics, Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
Heather Reed, Data Scientist, ASAPP, NYC
Raphael Sternfels, Quantitative Researcher, Azur IM, Paris
Emily Guzas, Engineer, Naval Undersea Warfare Center – Newport, Providence, RI
Chris Stull, R&D Manager, Computed Tomography Inspection, NDT&E, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
Woo Yong Jeong, Senior Software Lead, Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence, Norcross, GA
Mija Hubler, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO