People – Ghahari Lab

Current Members

Principal Investigator

Dr. Fereshte Ghahari Kermani

Graduate Students

Robert Rienstra

Nishat Sultana

Joseph Michael Wiechelman

Undergraduate Students

Arion Mitchell

Surbhi Singla

Alumni

Name	Position at Ghahari Lab (Years)	Subsequent Position
Akhil Chauhan	Undergraduate (2021-2022)	PhD Student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas Mattes	Research Assistant (2020-2022)	Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Joseph Donoghue	Undergraduate (2020-2021)	PhD Student at George Mason University
Ian Morris	Undergraduate (2020-2021)	PhD Student at Michigan State University
Mahapol Thunyapong	Graduate Student (2020-2021)	PhD Student at George Mason University
Rohan Kompella	High School Research Assistant (2022)	Undergraduate Student at University of Colorado Boulder
Alec Riso	High School Research Assistant (2024)	Undergraduate Student at Cornell University
Evan Stocker	Undergraduate (2024-2025)	PhD Student at Virginia Tech

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