Joheen Chakraborty
joheen@mit.edu | Astrophysics | REFS since 2024
Joheen grew up in Edison (like the inventor), a suburb in New Jersey with lots of good Indian food. He went to Columbia University in NYC for undergrad, and continued his northward drift to MIT for grad school in 2022. He works on high-energy astrophysics, X-ray astronomy, and high-performance computing. In his free time, he like to play video games and musical instruments.
Rahul Jayaraman
rjayaram@mit.edu | Room 37-624 | Astrophysics | REFS since 2020
Rahul (he/him/his) is an Astro grad student from California, but he has experience dealing with the cold Northeast winters after his four years at Brown. He works with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) group on transient detection and follow-up, but outside of that, he is involved in the GSC and other outreach organizations. In his free time, he likes to watch foreign TV shows, keep up with politics, and watch airplanes land.
Lisa Lin
iamlll@mit.edu | Biophysics | REFS since 2022
Lisa (she/hers) is from the Chicago suburbs and went to UChicago for her undergrad, then finally decided to get out of Illinois for grad school, where she studies biological active matter. In her free time, she enjoys playing the clarinet, knitting, and cooking and baking.
Ari Liu
arily@mit.edu | Room 46-5125 | Biophysics | REFS since 2022
Ari (they/them) is a Biophysics grad student studying neuroscience problems. They grew up in Guangdong, China and came to the states in 2016 for undergrad at Wesleyan University (CT). Outside of research, they enjoy playing the piano, reading fiction, live theater, traveling, and binge watching TV shows.
Emily Qiu
ehqiu@mit.edu | Room 6C-205 | Condensed Matter Theory | REFS since 2019
Emily (she/hers) is from Toronto, Canada, where she did her undergraduate studies in Engineering Physics. She did her Masters in Paris, where she baked croissants and travelled via overnight bus (which she does NOT recommend). She currently works in the group of Vladan Vuletic on arrays of ultracold atomic ensembles towards quantum simulation and quantum information processing. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and binge-watching trashy Netflix reality shows.
Kelsey Yee
kelseyy@mit.edu | Nuclear and Particle Experiment | REFS since 2022
Kelsey (she/her/hers) is a NUPAX graduate student searching for dark matter signatures in cosmic rays. She studied at Northeastern University as an undergraduate student and found a love of particle physics from a six-month co-op at CERN. Outside the lab, Kelsey enjoys drawing, cycling, D&D, video games, and cooking.