LIGO
Graduate Alumni
Understanding Gravitational Waves and Their Sources: Robust Inference, Tests of Gravity, and Future Prospects
Payne, Ethan W. ・ PhD ・ 2026
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Probing Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Nuclear Physics with Gravitational Waves from Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Golomb, Jacob Matthew ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
A Glitch and the Matrix: Advances in Gravitational-Wave Glitch Mitigation and Acceleration of Pulsar Timing Analyses
Hourihane, Sophie Rose ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Chatziioannou, Katerina
Neutron Stars: Robust Constraints on Dense Matter from Astrophysics
Legred, Isaac Norman ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Chatziioannou, Katerina
Future Prospects in Gravitational Waves: From Testing Fundamental Physics to Instruments beyond LIGO
Seymour, Brian Christopher ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Chen, Yanbei
Robust Gravitational Wave Analysis at the Catalog Scale
Udall, Rhiannon Pollard ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Cosmic Gold Mining: Hunting for the Astrophysical Sites of r-Process Nucleosynthesis
Anand, Shreya ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Kasliwal, Mansi M.
Probing the Higher Redshift Universe by Studying Strong Lensing of Gravitational Waves and Enhancing Search Sensitivity of the GstLAL Search Pipeline
Li, Ka Yue Alvin ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Gravitational Wave Exotica - Advancing the Search for Signatures of Exotic Compact Objects and Gravitational Lensing from Data-Analysis and Theoretical Perspectives
Lo, Ka Lok (Rico) ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Interferometric Precision Measurement with Macroscopic Silicon Optomechanics
Markowitz, Aaron Gregory ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Adhikari, Rana
Next-Generation Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detectors
Gupta, Anchal ・ PhD ・ 2023
Advisor: Adhikari, Rana
Topics in Gravitational Wave Physics: Quantum Theory for Detector Improvement and High-Precision Modeling of Binary Black Hole Ringdown Waveform
Li, Xiang ・ PhD ・ 2023
Advisor: Chen, Yanbei
Searching for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences and Stochastic Backgrounds in the LIGO–Virgo Detector Network
Xiao, Liting ・ PhD ・ 2023
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Prototype Interferometry in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Venugopalan, Gautam ・ PhD ・ 2022
Advisor: Adhikari, Rana
Controlling and Calibrating Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
Cahillane, Craig Russell ・ PhD ・ 2021
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Searching for the Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background and Prompt Radio Emission from Compact Binaries
Callister, Thomas Alfred, III ・ PhD ・ 2020
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay; Hallinan, Gregg W.
Using Graviton EFT and Massive Gravity to Compute Gravitational Potentials for Black Hole Inspirals
Suter, Bethany Anne ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2020
Advisor: Cheung, Clifford W.
Core-Collapse Supernova Physics in the Multi-Messenger Era
Gossan, Sarah Elizabeth ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Fundamental Physics in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: The Direct Measurement of Gravitational-Wave Polarizations and Other Topics
Isi Bañales, Maximiliano ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Mitigating Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
Korth, William Zachary ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Adhikari, Rana
Improving the Performance and Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors
Quintero, Eric Antonio ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Adhikari, Rana
Long-Baseline Laser Interferometry for the Detection of Binary Black-Hole Mergers
Hall, Evan Drew ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Adhikari, Rana
Noise Cancellation for Gravitational Wave Detectors
Driggers, Jennifer Clair ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Adhikari, Rana
Gauge Invariant Spectral Cauchy Characteristic Extraction of Gravitational Waves in Computational General Relativity
Handmer, Casey John ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Chen, Yanbei; Ott, Christian D.
Lock Acquisition and Sensitivity Analysis of Advanced LIGO Interferometers
Martynov, Denis V. ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Adhikari, Rana
The Needle in the 100 deg² Haystack: The Hunt for Binary Neutron Star Mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory
Singer, Leo Pound ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.
The Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Black Hole Binary Systems in Data from the LIGO and Virgo Detectors. Or: A Dark Walk through a Random Forest
Hodge, Kari Alison ・ PhD ・ 2014
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
The Importance of Spin for Observing Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binaries with LIGO and Virgo
Privitera, Stephen M. ・ PhD ・ 2014
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Search for Gravitational Waves from a Nearby Neutron Star Using Barycentric Resampling
Patel, Pinkesh Kiritbhai ・ PhD ・ 2011
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Length Sensing and Control of a Prototype Advanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector
Ward, Robert Lawrence ・ PhD ・ 2010
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Signatures and Dynamics of Compact Binary Coalescences and a Search in LIGO’s S5 Data
Keppel, Drew Garvin ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
A Search for Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Hole Ringdowns in LIGO Data
Goggin, Lisa Maria ・ PhD ・ 2008
Advisor: Weinstein, Alan Jay
Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics
Savov, Pavlin ・ PhD ・ 2008
Advisor: Thorne, Kip S.
Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics
Lovelace, Geoffrey Mark ・ PhD ・ 2007
Advisor: Thorne, Kip S.
Topics of LIGO Physics: Template Banks for the Inspiral of Precessing, Compact Binaries, and Design of the Signal-Recycling Cavity for Advanced LIGO
Pan, Yi ・ PhD ・ 2006
Advisor: Thorne, Kip S.
Topics in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
O’Shaughnessy, Richard William ・ PhD ・ 2004
Advisor: Thorne, Kip S.
Topics of LIGO Physics: Quantum Noise in Advanced Interferometers and Template Banks for Compact-Binary Inspirals
Chen, Yanbei ・ PhD ・ 2003
Advisor: Thorne, Kip S.
Topics in LIGO-Related Physics: Interferometric Speed Meters and Tidal Work
Purdue, Patricia Marie ・ PhD ・ 2003
Advisor: Thorne, Kip S.
Mirror Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
Rao, Shanti Raja ・ PhD ・ 2003
Advisor: Libbrecht, Kenneth George
Lock Acquisition in Resonant Optical Interferometers
Evans, Matthew John ・ PhD ・ 2002
Advisor: Barish, Barry C.
Modeling and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects
Vallisneri, Michele ・ PhD ・ 2002
Advisor: Thorne, Kip S.
Signal Extraction and Optical Design for an Advanced Gravitational Wave Interferometer
Mason, James Edward ・ PhD ・ 2001
Advisor: Vogt, Rochus E.; Porter, Frank C.
Experiments with a Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antenna
Zucker, Michael Edward ・ PhD ・ 1989
Advisor: Drever, Ronald W. P.