Graduate Students
Featured Student: Xinyue Gong
Xinyue Gong is a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, whose research is in physical acoustics. Her research is focused on angular momentum-carrying acoustic waves, which are also known as acoustic vortex beams. 
Acoustic vortex beams have twisted wavefronts and have broad applications in underwater communications, particle manipulation, medical treatments and other areas. Her interest is the fundamental physics and new theories about vortex beams interacting with metasurfaces and she is also working on model simulations and experiments. Xinyue conducts her research at the National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA).Xinyue got her M.S. degree in acoustics in Jilin University in China in 2019. She started studying acoustics in 2016 and regards acoustics as a lifelong career. In addition to her usual research routine, she enjoys attending and presenting her research at physics and acoustics conferences such as the Acoustical Society of America meetings and the meetings of the American Physical Society which allows her to broaden her horizon and connect with researchers from the same area. In her spare time, she likes playing board games and baking.
Other Featured Students
Sumeet Kulkarni Anil Panta Lorena Magaña Zertuche
Current Students
| Abeykoon, Madusanka Acharya, Bishnu Acharya, Utsab Adnan, Azwad Ahmed, Nauman Bagchi, Subhayu Barman, Dipika Campagna, Quinn Dye, Andrew Farooq, Ehsan Gebeline, Paul | Gong, Xinyue Hettiarachchi, Dinura Huang, Xiaoyan Irby, Coleman Ishraque, Ahmed Farhan Khadse, Akshay Khairnar, Aniket Knutson, Noah Kulkarni, Sumeet Liang, Bin Liu, Guoqin | Magaña Zertuche, Lorena Mitra, Baisakhi McCammon, Cody Moore, Joshua Moulton, Nicklaus Narayan, Purnima Pandey, Kumar Pokharel, Saroj Prais, Luiz Ricardo Rai, Milan Rivest, Joseph | Rodriguez, Samuel Rostami, Sina Saleh, Raisa Nawar Schrader, Andrew Sharma, Arindam Siedlecki, Ray Singh, Amitesh Sonia, Farhana Afrose Stacy, Wil Thurmond, Kaitlyn Wang, Zhengwu Yu, Byungchul | |
News
- 2021/07: Lorena Magaña Zertuche is awarded a Mississippi Space Grant Consortium (MSSGC) Graduate Fellowship
- 2021/04: Meghna Bhattacharya wins the UM 2021 Graduate Student Achievement Award
- 2020/03: Anil Panta receives a fellowship from the 2020 Ozaki Exchange Program
- 2019/11: Sumeet Kulkarni publishes popular science article in Scientific American