Students and Postdocs

I have had the privilege of mentoring many talented students and postdocs over the years. Here is a list of those I have worked with:

Postdocs

  • Zachary Messegee (NRC Postdoc, 2026-present)
  • Colin Heikes (now Northrop-Grumman)

Graduate & Undergraduate Students

Current / Recent (2024-2026)

  • Matthew Long (Georgetown University) 2026 — CORE student, agentic AI for magnetic structure determination
  • Hannah Chin (Berkeley) 2026
  • Janelle Sampson (Berkeley) 2026
  • Aryan Jain (Berkeley) 2026
  • Ayush Guha (Berkeley) 2026
  • Carina Jacobson (Purdue) 2026
  • Abhishek Shetty (Berkeley) 2025, 2026
  • Jasmol Singh Dhesi (Berkeley) 2025
  • Vanessa Acha (Berkeley) 2025, 2026
  • Harshita Dwarcherla (Berkeley) 2025, 2026
  • Derrick Chan-Sew (Berkeley) 2025, 2026
  • Dan Luu Nguyen (Berkeley) 2024, 2025
  • Nick Lemoff (Berkeley) 2024
  • Will Kuan Coomans (Berkeley) 2024
  • Brian Chu (Berkeley) 2024
  • Texas Doehring (Mount Union College) 2025
  • Elizabeth Baggett (Johns Hopkins University) 2024, 2025, 2026
  • Jack Carpenter (University of Maryland) 2024
  • Robert Huarcaya (U. Maryland) 2023
  • Justin Wang (Johns Hopkins) 2023

Previous Years

  • Shriya Haravu (UNC) 2022
  • Kate Meuse (Cornell) 2021
  • Jessica Opsahl-Ong (Rice University) 2021
  • Joseph Rath (Rowan University) 2019
  • Abigail Wilson (Tufts) 2018
  • Rohit Mandavia (University of Maryland) 2017
  • Nathan Super (Williams and Mary College) 2016
  • Joseph Lesniewski (graduate school Georgetown) 2014, 2015
  • Alex Yee (University of Maryland) 2013
  • Dylan Quintana (Carnegie Mellon University) 2012
  • Andrew Tracer (Princeton) 2011
  • Joseph Redmon (Middlebury College, now graduate school in CS at U. Washington) 2010
  • Thomas Sarvey (University of Maryland, now graduate school at Georgia Tech)
  • William Flynn (American University, now graduate school in Physics at Rutgers)
  • Ed Schwartz (Millersville University, now staff at Carnegie Mellon)
  • Man Kit Patrick Lee (intern from U. Maryland)

High School Students (SHIP Program)

  • Srikar Kovvali (Westfield High School) 2026
  • Edward Friedman (Carnegie Mellon University) 2024, 2025, 2026
  • Aditya Purohit (Duke University) 2024, 2026
  • Karen Cao (Montgomery Blair High School) 2023
  • Dylan Zhang (Thomas Wootton High School) 2022, 2023
  • Satvik Lolla (Poolesville High School) 2020, 2021
  • Kate Meuse (Montgomery Blair High School) 2019, 2020
  • Jessica Opsahl-Ong (McLean High School) 2019, 2020
  • Ryan Cho (Montgomery Blair High School) 2018
  • Telon Yan (Montgomery Blair High School) 2018
  • Michael Yang (Thomas Jefferson High School) 2017
  • Nayman Leung (Montgomery Blair High School) 2016
  • Cynthia Liu (Montgomery Blair High School) 2015, 2016
  • Alexander Zhang (Montgomery Blair) 2013, 2014
  • Erica Peng (Thomas Wootton High School) 2013
  • Esther Wang (Thomas Jefferson High School) 2012
  • Priyanka Patel (Poolesville High School) 2012
  • Elakian Kanakaraj (Northwest High School) 2011
  • Ophir Lifshitz (Walter Johnson High School) 2010, 2011
  • Alex Yee (Poolesville High School) 2010, 2011
  • George Curtis

Interested in working with me? Contact me at william.ratcliff@nist.gov