Current Group Members
Faculty
Professor, Department of Astronomy
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Email: xinliuxl_AT_illinois.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Binary Black Hole
Email: acgross_AT_illinois.edu
Intermediate-mass Black Hole
Email: wasleske_AT_illinois.edu
Graduate Students
Benchmarking, Generative AI
Email: aberres2_AT_illinois.edu
Cosmology, Photometric Redshift
Email: achintya_AT_illinois.edu
Physics-informed AI, Cosmology
Email: shuruil3_AT_illinois.edu
Multi-messenger & Time-domain Astronomy
Email: liamjn2_AT_illinois.edu
Prince YadavPhysics
Astrophysics, Computer Vision
Email: princey2_AT_illinois.edu
Postbaccalaureate Research Associates
Yash Ejjagiri
NCSA SPIN Mentor
Machine Learning and Data Science
Email: yse2_AT_illinois.edu
Undergraduate Students
Naavya Jain
Astrophysics Senior
Intermediate-mass Black Hole
Email: naavyaj2_AT_illinois.edu
Alums
Dr. Grant Merz, PhD 2026 -> Computer Vision Engineer@KinaTrax
NCSA SPIN
Spencer Hulsey, AI for Astro Edu (co-advised with Prof. Looney and Dr. Kindratenko)
Yichen Liu, Undergrad Class of 2024 -> PhD@U Arizona
Shreya Majumdar, Undergrad Class of 2024/IDEAS Fellow -> PhD@Georgia Tech
Dr. Colin J. Burke, PhD 2023 -> Professor @UNT
Dr. Tony Chen, PhD 2023 -> Postdoc@JHU
Yufeng Liu, Undergrad Class of 2023 -> MS in CS@UCSC
Sam Memon, MS 2023
Gaby Torrini, MS 2022 -> Developer@TurnellCorp
Franklin Wang, Undergrad Class of 2022 -> PhD@Texas A&M
Dr. Joshua Yao-Yu Lin, PhD 2022 -> Postdoc@Prescient Design
Sneh Pandya, Undergrad Class of 2021 -> PhD@Northeastern U
Anshul Shah, Undergrad Class of 2022/NCSA SPIN -> Software Engineer
Dr. Wei-Ting Liao, PhD 2020 -> Astro-3D Fellow@U Melbourne
Dr. Hengxiao Guo, NCSA Associate -> Professor@SHAO
Kaiwen Zhang, Undergrad Class of 2020 -> MS@U Chicago
Devanshi Pratap, Undergrad Class of 2020 -> Microsoft
Dr. Sijia Peng (co-advised with Prof. Z. Li), PhD 2022@Nanjing U -> SHAO
Dr. Meicun Hou (co-advised with Prof. Z. Li), PhD 2021@Nanjing U -> Professor@Nanjing U
Dhara Mehta, Undergrad Class of 2018 -> MS in Medical Physics@ECU
Jessica Medintz, Undergrad Class of 2018 -> MS in CS@Loyola
Dr. Alexander Dittmann, Undergrad Class of 2018 -> PhD@UMD
Anna Kofman, Undergrad Class of 2017 -> PhD@UPenn
Yang Lyu, Undergrad Class of 2018 -> PhD@UC Berkeley
Dr. Jinyi Shangguan, KIAA/PKU PhD -> Professor@KIAA