Current lab members, a.k.a. "cosmic Wrays"
PI: James Wray
Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2010
A.B., Princeton University, 2006
Curriculum Vitae
Emily (Emmy) Hughes
Ph.D. student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Georgia Tech
B.S., Wesleyan University, 2020
Alivia Eng
(co-advised w/ Frances Rivera-Hernández)
Ph.D. student, Georgia Tech
M.S., Western Washington University, 2023 B.S., Western Washington University, 2021
Alivia’s LinkedIn profile
Colin Burnett
Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Past lab members
Cindy Young
Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Tech
Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2014 Now a Civil Servant at NASA Langley Research Center
Cindy's webpage
Kennda Lynch
(co-advised w/ Frank Rosenzweig) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Georgia Tech
Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines, 2015
Now a Staff Scientist at the Lunar & Planetary InstituteKennda's website
Lujendra (Luju) Ojha
Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2016
B.S., University of Arizona, 2012 Now an Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University
Previously a Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow, then Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University
Luju's website
Mary Beth Wilhelm
Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2017
B.A., Cornell University, 2012 Now a Civil Servant at NASA Ames Research Center
Mary Beth's website
George McDonald
Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2018
B.A., Cornell University, 2014 Now a Postdoc at University of Oregon
Previously a Postdoc at Rutgers University
George's Google Scholar page
Gabriel (Gabe) Eggers
Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2021
A.B., Princeton University, 2013 Now a Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Wesleyan University
Previously a Postdoc at the Lunar & Planetary Institute
Gabe's LinkedIn profile
Angela Dapremont
Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2021
B.S., College of Charleston, 2014 Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Angela’s website
Alexander (Alex) Sessa
M.S., Georgia Tech, 2017
B.S., University of Illinois-Chicago, 2014
Sheridan Ackiss (now Moore)
B.S., Georgia Tech, 2012
Now a Senior Technical Consultant at Esri Inc.
Previously a NASA Earth & Space Science Fellow / Ph.D. student at Purdue University (w/ Briony Horgan); then Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Idaho (w/ Erika Rader); then Remote Sensing Scientist/Engineer at The Aerospace Corporation
Sheridan's story
S.J. Ralston
B.S., Georgia Tech, 2014
Now a Mars Research Scientist at Jacobs/NASA Johnson Space Center
Previously a M.S. student at the University of Nevada (w/ Libby Hausrath)
S.J.’s LinkedIn profile
Jiawei Li
B.S., Georgia Tech, 2015
Now a Project Engineer at DeSimone Consulting
Jiawei’s LinkedIn profile
Lauren Kimbrough
B.S., Georgia Tech, 2020
Now an Avionics Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute
Lauren’s LinkedIn profile
Sara Cuevas Quiñones
(co-advised w/ Frances Rivera-Hernández) Undergraduate, Purdue University and 2021 Georgia Tech REU Student
Sara's LinkedIn profile
Sarah Hansen
Research Technician
B.S., Georgia Tech, 2011
Grace Fanson
(co-advised w/ Frances Rivera-Hernández)
B.S., Georgia Tech, 2022
Now a Ph.D. student at MIT (w/ Gaia Stucky de Quay)