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Luis Saldana's picture Luis Saldana
Senior Data Scientist
The Estee Lauder Companies Inc.
luis.saldana@aya.yale.edu
Research Website
Degree Date: December 2021

Advisor: Karsten Heeger

Dissertation Title: Novel Signal Reconstruction Techniques in Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy for Neutrino Mass Measurement

Savil Salur's picture Savil Salur
Associate Professor
Rutgers University
salur@physics.rutgers.edu
Degree Date: May 2006

Advisor: John Harris

Dissertation Title: Investigation of hadronic resonances with STAR

Vahid Sandoghdar's picture Vahid Sandoghdar
Director
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
vahid.sandoghdar@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: May 1993

Advisor: Edward Hinds

Dissertation Title: Direct measurement of the Lennard-Jonesvan der Waals energy of an atom in a sub-micron cavity

Alex Sandomirsky's picture Alex Sandomirsky
Quantitative Researcher
Midpoint Markets
alex.sandomirsky@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2024

Advisor: Witold Skiba

Dissertation Title: Explicit Conformal Blocks

Lauren Saunders's picture Lauren Saunders
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Fermilab
lauren.saunders@yale.edu
She/her/hers
Degree Date: December 2023

Advisor: Laura Newburgh

Dissertation Title: Telescope Pointing for the Simons Observatory: Data Acquisition & Control Software, Calibration, and Modeling

Veronica Savu's picture Veronica Savu
CEO and co-founder
Morphotonix
veronica.savu@morphotonix.com
Research Website
Degree Date: May 2007

Advisor: Daniel Prober

Dissertation Title: The light at the end of the tunnel junction: Improving the energy resolution of UV single -photon spectrometers using diffusion engineering

Giacomo Scanavini's picture Giacomo Scanavini
giacomo.scanavini@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2023

Advisor: Bonnie Fleming

Dissertation Title: First measurement of neutral current neutral pion production differential cross sections on argon

Flavius Schackert's picture Flavius Schackert
Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Facebook, Inc.
flavius.schackert@gmail.com
Degree Date: December 2013

Advisor: Michel Devoret

Dissertation Title: A Practical Quantum-Limited Parametric Amplifier Based on the Josephson Ring Modulator

Sebastian Schmidt's picture Sebastian Schmidt
Patent Attorney
Quantum IP
schmidt@quantumpatents.com
Research Website
Degree Date: December 2008

Advisor: Yoram Alhassid

Dissertation Title: Electron interactions in chaotic metallic grains

Grant Schumacher's picture Grant Schumacher
Quantitative Researcher
Susquehanna International Group
grant.schumacher@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2024

Advisor: Nir Navon

Dissertation Title: Stability of a Three-Component Fermi Gas

David Schuster's picture David Schuster
Associate Professor of Physics
University of Chicago
David.Schuster@uchicago.edu
Degree Date: May 2007

Advisor: Robert Schoelkopf

Dissertation Title: Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Carl Schreck's picture Carl Schreck
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children's Mercy Hospital
carl.schreck@aya.yale.edu
Research Website
Degree Date: May 2012

Advisor: Corey O'Hern

Dissertation Title: Mechanical and vibrational properties of model granular media

Philip Scott's picture Philip Scott
Retired
Eye Physicians of North Houston
philip.scott@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: May 1970

Advisor: Werner P. Wolf

Dissertation Title: Magneto-optical effects in some rare earth hydroxides

Daniel Seara's picture Daniel Seara
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Chicago
dsseara@gmail.com
Degree Date: May 2021

Advisor: Michael Murrell

Dissertation Title: Energetics of biological mechanics and dynamics

Adam Sears's picture Adam Sears
Data Scientist
LyondellBasell
adam.sears@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: December 2013

Advisor: Robert Schoelkopf

Dissertation Title: Extending Coherence of Superconducting Qubits: from microseconds to milliseconds

Ibrahim Semiz's picture Ibrahim Semiz
Professor of Physics
Bogazici University
ibrahim.semiz@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: December 1992

Advisor: Vincent Moncrief

Dissertation Title: On Dyonic Black Holes and Cosmic Censorship

Will Shanks's picture Will Shanks
Researcher
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Will.shanks@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2011

Advisor: Jack harris

Dissertation Title: Persistent Currents in Normal Metal Rings

Tianqi Shen's picture Tianqi Shen
Quantitative Researcher
Laurion Capital Management LP
tianqi.shen@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2014

Advisor: Corey O'Hern

Dissertation Title: Contact Percolation, Fragility and Frictional Packings

Hyungki Andrew Shim's picture Hyungki Andrew Shim
hyungki.shim@yale.edu
Degree Date: December 2021

Advisor: Owen Miller

Dissertation Title: Probing the Upper Limits to Light–Matter Interactions: from Spontaneous Emission to Superresolution

Toshihiko Shimasaki's picture Toshihiko Shimasaki
Assistant Project Scientist
University of California, Santa Barbara
toshihiko.shimasaki@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2017

Advisor: David DeMille

Dissertation Title: Continuous Production of 85Rb133Cs Molecules in the Rovibronic Ground State via Short-Range Photoassociation

Kidae Shin's picture Kidae Shin
Undecided
kidae.shin@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2024

Advisor: Charles Ahn

Dissertation Title: MBE-grown Thin Films for Novel Applications: From Single Atomic Layer Ferroelectrics to Isotopically Pure Quantum Memories

Alexey Shkarin's picture Alexey Shkarin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
alexey.shkarin@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2018

Advisor: Jack Harris

Dissertation Title: Quantum Optomechanics with Superfluid Helium

Joseph Shomar's picture Joseph Shomar
Sports Analyst
Major League Baseball
joseph.shomar@yale.edu
Degree Date: December 2024

Advisor: Damon Clark

Dissertation Title: Visual Circuits for Distance Estimation in Walking Drosophila

Tong Shu's picture Tong Shu
Postdoctoral Associate
Institute of System Genetics in NYU School of Medicine
shutongshutong@gmail.com
Phone: 203-785-5873
Degree Date: December 2019

Advisor: James Rothman

Dissertation Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Regulated SNARE Assembly Revealed by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy

Pierre Sikivie's picture Pierre Sikivie
Distinguished Professor of Physics
University of Florida
pierre.sikivie@aya.yale.edu
Distinguished Professor of Physics
Research Website
Degree Date: December 1975

Advisor: Feza Gursey

Dissertation Title: Lepton and Hadron Spectra in Universal Gauge Theories

Volodymyr Sivak's picture Volodymyr Sivak
Research Scientist
Google Quantum AI
vladimir.sivak@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2023

Advisor: Michel Devoret

Dissertation Title: Quantum Error Correction Beyond Break-Even

Katrina Sliwa's picture Katrina Sliwa
Physicist
Quantum Circuits, Inc.
katrina.sliwa@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2016

Advisor: Michel Devoret

Dissertation Title: Minimizing Effects Detrimental to the Heisenberg Back-Action of Qubit Measurements with Parametric Amplifiers

Andrew Smith's picture Andrew Smith
Retired
Formerly NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
andrew.smith@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: May 1962

Advisor: Frederick E. Steigert

Dissertation Title: Mutual Excitation in the C12 - C12 System

Clarke Smith's picture Clarke Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow
Inria
clarke.smith@yale.edu
Degree Date: December 2019

Advisor: Michel Devoret

Dissertation Title: Design of Protected Superconducting Qubits

William Smith's picture William Smith
Senior Software Engineer
Datadog
wendell.smith@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2016

Advisor: Corey O'Hern

Dissertation Title: Modeling Diffusion and Motion in Cells at the Molecular Level

Hasuk Francis Song's picture Hasuk Francis Song
Research Scientist
DeepMind
francis.song@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: December 2012

Advisor: Karyn Le Hur

Dissertation Title: Entanglement in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Joshua Spitz's picture Joshua Spitz
Norman M Leff Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
joshua.spitz@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: December 2011

Advisor: Bonnie Fleming

Dissertation Title: Measuring Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Differential Cross Sections with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

Matthew Steinecker's picture Matthew Steinecker
matthew.steinecker@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2019

Advisor: David DeMille

Dissertation Title: Sub-Doppler Laser Cooling and Magnetic Trapping of SrF Molecules

Robert Steiner's picture Robert Steiner
Director, Online Teacher Education Programs
American Museum of Natural History
robert.steiner@aya.yale.edu
Degree Date: December 1985

Advisor: Jack Sandweiss

Dissertation Title: Charged Hadron Production in Positive Pion-Proton, Positive Kaon-Proton and Proton-Proton interactions at 200 Gev/C

David Stewart's picture David Stewart
Postdoctoral Associate
Wayne State University
david.j.stewart@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2022

Advisor: Helen Caines

Dissertation Title: Jet to Event Activity Correlations in Small System Collisions at STAR

Joseph Sullivan's picture Joseph Sullivan
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of British Columbia
joseph.m.sullivan@yale.edu
Degree Date: May 2022

Advisor: Meng Cheng

Dissertation Title: Quilting topological phases of matter with quantum thread: a Luttinger liquid love letter

Tomomi Sunayama's picture Tomomi Sunayama
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kavli Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
tomomi.sunayama@yale.edu
Degree Date: December 2016

Advisor: Nikhil Padamanabhan

Dissertation Title: Using galaxy surveys as a precision tool to measure dark energy

William Sweeney's picture William Sweeney
Data Scientist
VideaHealth
william.sweeney@yale.edu
Degree Date: December 2020

Advisor: A. Douglas Stone

Dissertation Title: Electromagnetic Eigenvalue Problems and Nonhermitian Effects in Linear and Saturable Scattering