People

Director

  • Prof. Koki Ho

Current Members

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Masafumi Isaji

PhD. Candidates/Students

  • Nicholas Gollins
  • Malav Patel
  • Logan Feld
  • Polina Verkhovodova
  • Seungyeop Han 
  • Kayla Garoust
  • Euihyeon Choi
  • Zachary Grieser
  • Tomohiro Sasaki (remote; co-advised by Dr. Lightsey)
  • Bryce Cunningham (remote)

Master’s Students

  • Anay Naik
  • Jae Yeon Kim

Visiting Scholar

  • Takumi Noro
  • Mitsuhiro Yamazumi

Alumni

Since our group was founded in Jan. 2016 (initially at the University of Illinois; moved to Georgia Tech in 2019), the following PostDoc, Ph.D., and M.S. students have completed their studies with us. In addition to those listed here, many other undergraduate students have worked with us. It has been a pleasure to work with you all!

Former Group Members who joined Academia

  • Yuri Shimane, PhD ’25; starting as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025.
  • Byeong-Un Jo, Postdoc ’23; currently an Assistant Professor at Sejong University, Korea.
  • Hang Woon Lee, M.S. ’18, Ph.D. ’22, (NSF Graduate Research Fellow); currently an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University.
  • Hao Chen, M.S. ’16, Ph.D. ’21, PostDoc ’21; currently an Assistant Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
  • Katherine Skinner, Postdoc ’20; currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.

In addition, Ryne Beeson, a former Graduate Research Assistant who worked with Prof. Ho at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after the retirement of his Advisor (Prof. N Sri Namachchivaya), is currently an Assistant Professor at Princeton University.

Former Group Members who joined Industry

The employers of the SSOG alumni include NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), Boeing, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin, Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Collins Aerospace, CU Aerospace, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, etc.

Ph.D.

  • Kento Tomita, Ph.D., ’24.
  • Andrew Maxwell, Ph.D., ’23.
  • Bindu Jagannatha, Ph.D. ’18.

M.S.

  • Julia Tepper, M.S. ’23 (Thesis).
  • Joshua Tysor, M.S. ’22 (Non-Thesis; Special Problem).
  • Youssof Fassi, M.S. ’22 (Non-Thesis; Special Problem).
  • Philippe Clifton, M.S. ’21 (Non-Thesis; Special Problem).
  • Brian Hardy, M.S. ’20 (Thesis).
  • Jeffrey Perez, M.S. ’19 (Thesis).
  • Tiago Silva, M.S. ’19 (Thesis).
  • Pauline Jakob, M.S. ’18 (Thesis).
  • Mihir Patel, M.S. ’18 (Thesis).
  • Patrick Sears, M.S. ’18 (Thesis).
  • Domenico Teodonio, M.S. ’18 (Thesis), Politecnico di Torino (co-advised by Prof. Sabrina Corpino), thesis completed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Thibaut Wenger, M.S. ’17 (Thesis).

Former Group Members who continued for Advanced Degrees or PostDocs

  • Masafumi Isaji, Ph.D., ’25.
  • Tristan Sarton Du Jonchay, M.S. ’17, Ph.D., ’22.
  • Onalli Gunasekara, M.S. ’22 (Non-Thesis; Special Problem; DoD NDSEG Fellow).
  • Thomas Claudet, M.S. ’22 (Thesis).
  • Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, M.S. ’18 (Thesis).
  • Alen Envieh Golpashin, M.S. ’18 (Thesis) (co-advised by Prof. N Sri Namachchivaya).