teaching & mentoring
Teaching experience and research mentoring.
Mentoring
Mentoring students in research is one of the most rewarding parts of my work. Many of the students I have worked with have gone on to Ph.D. programs and postdoctoral positions.
Stanley Baronett — Ph.D. student, UNLV (now postdoc, University of Virginia)
Multi-band radiation hydrodynamics in protoplanetary disks. Extended the frequency-integrated radiation transport I developed to multi-frequency thermodynamics of protoplanetary disks. Co-advised with Prof. Zhaohuan Zhu, Dr. Yan-Fei Jiang, and Prof. Phil Armitage; resulted in Baronett et al. (2026).
Xiaoyi Ma — Ph.D. student, KIAA, Peking University
Thermal response to shadows in protoplanetary disks: the role of competing timescales. Modeling the thermal response of millimeter dust continuum and gas line emission to shadows seen in near-infrared scattered light; second author on a paper submitted to ApJ.
Bronco Yang — Undergraduate, Columbia University (now Ph.D. student, Rice University)
Roles of planet accretion heating on gap opening. Using Athena++ to study planet–disk interactions including heating by planet accretion.
Sarah Harter — Undergraduate, CSUN (now Ph.D. student, University of Rochester)
Imaging the dusty substructures due to terrestrial planets with ALMA and the ngVLA. Co-advised with Prof. Luca Ricci; published as Harter et al. (2020), ApJ.
Fiona Han — Undergraduate, University of Michigan
Synthetic observations of protostellar cores from global simulations. Co-advised with Prof. Lee Hartmann; presented at the University of Michigan Astronomy Undergraduate Poster Session.
Teaching
- Guest Lecturer, Graduate Seminar, Columbia University — Spring 2025
- Guest Lecturer, Computational Physics, UNLV — Spring 2024
- Lecturer & Grader, ASTR 105: Introductory Astronomy Laboratory, UNLV — Spring 2020
- Lecturer & Grader, PHYS 151L: General Physics I (Mechanics and Thermal Physics), UNLV — Spring 2019