Graduate Students

Graduate students are the engine behind productive research programs at WID and elsewhere. The dozens of graduate students affiliated with WID have elected to make interdisciplinary inquiry a priority in their studies and research.

Lauren Anthony

  • Graduate Student

Mathematical cognition and learning, particularly how representation impacts mathematical reasoning

Anna Bartel

  • Graduate Student

Role of visualizations in mathematical cognition

John Binzak

  • Graduate Student

Cognitive and emotional effects of educational multimedia design for math and science learning

Jacobus (Jack) Burger

Jack Burger headshot

  • Graduate Student

Developing biomedical nanomaterials for drug delivery applications

Pablo Caceres

  • Graduate Student

Computational models of cognition, applied machine learning and data science.

Dan Cappabianca

  • Graduate Student

Novel CAR T Cell therapy development in translational and bench top settings

Rui Chen

Rui Chen

  • Graduate Student

Stochastic Programming

Harshini Cormaty

  • Graduate Student

Epigenetic mechanisms that control Primordial Germ Cell differentiation in mice

Caleb Dillingham

Caleb Dillingham

  • Graduate Student

Epigenetic mechanisms of somatic cell reprogramming.

Danica Fliss

  • Graduate Student

Applications of machine learning for signal processing

Praful Gagrani

  • Graduate Student

Understanding the physics at the origins of life.

Changyu Gao

  • Graduate Student

Optimization algorithms and machine learning

Kirstan Gimse

Kirstan Gimse

  • Graduate Student

A CRISPR/Cas9 based therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease

Spencer Halberg

  • Graduate Student

Computational methods to model cellular networks.

Nan (Yifang) Jiang

  • Graduate Student

Functions of human coronaviruses defective genomes on the range and severity of diseases.