Alumni from the Rabinovitch Research Group

PhD Students:

Danial Ghasimi (Spring 2026)

Congratulations to Danial Ghasimi on successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled “Permeability Modeling of Mars Parachute Broadcloth Materials” on March 31st, 2026!

Master’s Students:

Undergraduate Researchers:

  • Hanyue (Henry) Shen (AI Research Summer Fellowship Program)
    Project: Hypersonic Vehicle Trajectory Optimization Under Adverse Weather Conditions

  • Alison Dutton (Clark & Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2026)
    Project: CFD Modeling for NASA’s DAVINCI Venus Descent Probe

  • Amanda Lipko (Clark & Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2026)
    Project: CFD Modeling for NASA’s DAVINCI Venus Descent Probe

  • Ava Pelletier (Clark & Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2026)
    Project: CFD Modeling for NASA’s DAVINCI Venus Descent Probe

  • Jung Joo (Clark & Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2025)
    Project: Modeling High-Speed Shock/Droplet Interactions

  • Jacqueline King (Clark & Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2025)
    Project: Modeling High-Speed Shock/Droplet Interactions

  • Brendan Lee (Clark & Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2025)
    Project: Modeling High-Speed Shock/Droplet Interactions

  • Minerva Corea (Clark & Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2025)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Allie Halverson (Clark & Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2025)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Charles Smith (Clark & Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2025)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Christina Alexandrov (Provost’s Office Undergraduate Research Fund AY 24-25)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Jacqueline King (Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2024, Provost’s Office Undergraduate Research Fund AY 24-25)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Nicholas Lao (Summer 2024, Provost’s Office Undergraduate Research Fund AY 24-25)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Kiran Louis (Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2024)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Amanda Murnick (ME SURP Summer 2024)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Jeremy Roller (Pinnacle Scholars Summer 2024)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Adriana Santos (Spring 2024)
    Project: Finding Safe Landing Sites on Mercury

  • Anusha Singh (Spring 2024)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Jonathan Solorzano (Spring 2024)
    Project: Enceladus Plume Data Analysis

  • Campbell Tedtsen (Summer 2022, Pinnacle Scholars Program; Spring 2024)
    Project: Finding Safe Landing Sites on Mercury

  • Soleil Santana (ME SURP 2021; Fall 2021 - Spring 2023)
    Projects: Plume Surface Interactions and Reduced Kinetic Model for Hybrid Rocket Combustion Studies of MMA/GOx

  • Joshua Bernstein (Summer 2022, 2023, Pinnacle Scholars Program)
    Project: Finding Safe Landing Sites on Mercury

  • Gage Iannitelli (ME SURP Summer 2023)
    Mesh Generation for FSI Analysis of Shock Impingements in High-Speed Applications

  • Ryan Savin (Summer 2023, Pinnacle Scholars Program)
    Project: Finding Safe Landing Sites on Mercury

  • Rebecca Guerra (Summer 2022, Pinnacle Scholars Program)
    Project: Finding Safe Landing Sites on Mercury

  • Benjamin Knobloch (Summer 2022, Pinnacle Scholars Program)
    Project: Finding Safe Landing Sites on Mercury

  • Kayleigh Bowler (ME SURP 2022, 2nd prize of the SURP Research Competition)
    Project: Modeling the Enceladus Plume

  • Ava Steneck (ME SURP 2021)
    Project: Methyl Methacrylate (MMA): Examination of a Hybrid Motor Fuel

  • Maria Ortiz (ME SURP 2021, 2nd prize of the SURP Research Competition)
    Project: Image Processing Methods and Applications in Mars Perseverance Rover Data Collection