People

Principal Investigator

Research Scientists

Postdoctoral Scholars

Graduate Students

Technical Staff

Alumni

• Yoichi Aso · 2008–2012 · Now: Associate Professor, NAOJ, Japan
• Francisco Salces-Carcoba · 2020–2025 · Now: Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
• Jon Richardson · 2017–2021 · Now: Assistant Professor, UC Riverside
• Koji Arai · 2009–2025 · Now: Lead Research Scientist, Caltech LIGO
• Anchal Gupta · 2017–2023 · Now: Senior Staff Scientist, Blue Laser Fusion
• Jennifer Driggers · 2010–2015 · Now: Detection Lead Senior Scientist, LIGO Hanford
• Zach Korth · 2009–2019 · Now: Engineering Physicist, Senseeker Engineering
• Denis Martynov · 2010–2015 · Now: Professor, University of Birmingham
• Tara Chalermsongsak · 2009–2014 · Now: Program Director of Physics, Mahidol University, Thailand
• Frank Seifert · 2010–2012 · Now: Associate Researcher, NIST
• Yuta Michimura · 2022–2024 · Now: Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
• Masayuki Nakano · 2019–2024 · Now: Visiting Scholar, LIGO Laboratory, Caltech
• Gautam Venugopalan · 2015–2021 · Now: Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
• Andrew Wade · 2016–2019 · Now: Research Fellow, Australian National University
• Robert Ward · 2004–2010 · Now: Professor / Director, Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, Australian National University
• Eric Quintero · 2011–2017 · Now: ML Researcher, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• David Yeaton-Massey · 2010–2016 · Now: Physicist, Northrop Grumman
• Kevin Kuns · Now: Research Scientist, MIT LIGO
• Evan Hall · 2012–2017 · Now: Research Scientist, MIT LIGO
• Jameson Rollins
• Joseph Betzwieser

Caltech PhD Theses

• 2023 Next-Generation Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detectors — Anchal Gupta
• 2022 Prototype Interferometry in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy — Gautam Venugopalan
• 2019 Mitigating Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors — Zach Korth
• 2018 Improving the Performance and Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors — Eric Quintero
• 2017 Long-Baseline Laser Interferometry for the Detection of Binary Black-Hole Mergers — Evan Hall
• 2016 Cryogenic Silicon Optical Reference Cavities — David Yeaton-Massey
• 2015 Lock Acquisition and Sensitivity Analysis of Advanced LIGO Interferometers — Denis Martynov
• 2015 Noise Cancellation for Gravitational Wave Detectors — Jennifer Driggers
• 2014 High Fidelity Probe and Mitigation of Mirror Thermal Fluctuations — Tara Chalermsongsak
• 2010 Length Sensing and Control of a Prototype Advanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector — Robert Ward

Source: CaltechTHESIS — Advisor: Adhikari, R.

SURF Students

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