go back to present members: http://sites.nd.edu/sakaue-lab/people/
Postdoctoral Scholars

Mitsugu Hasegawa
Assistant Professor at Kanagawa University
Ph.D.,2020
- Yuichi Hirai: NIMS-Tsukuba
Ph.D. Students

Joseph Gonzales
Postdoctoral scholar at Virginia Tech
Ph.D.,2024
B.S, 2019
- Rongnan Yao: Ph.D., 2026
Master Students

Sydney Brown
National Weather Service Forecast Office
M.S.,2026

Yi-Chung Chen
Lucid Motors
M.S.,2023
B.S., 2021

Wesley Patterson
McKinley Climate Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base
M.S.,2020
- Tobey McDonough: Booz Allen Hamilton, M.S., 2025
Undergraduate Students

Wes Roeder
Jan. 2025 – Dec. 2025

Dylan Wachula
Feb. 2023 – May 2025

Oscar Pontiff
William Family Fellowship (Nov. 2024)
Jan. 2023 – May 2025

Russell Henggeler
William Family Fellowship (Nov. 2024)
Aug. 2023 – Dec. 2024

Jonah Ikeda
Aug. 2023 – May 2024

Oluwatomi Ogunleye
Feb. 2023 – May 2024

Samuel Carnogursky
Aug. 2023 – Dec. 2023

Connor Mangan
Jan. 2023 – May 2023

Vincent DiFilippo
Slatt Fellowship (Jan. 2022 – May 2023)
Feb. 2021 – May 2023

Nicholas Slusher
NURF Fellowship (May – Jul. 2021)
Feb. 2021 – Apr. 2021
May 2021 – Jul. 2021
Jan. 2022 – May 2023

Korey Walters
Sep. 2021 – May 2023

Christopher Peterson
Jan. 2022 – May 2022
Oct. 2022 – Dec. 2022

Owen Duffy
Sep. 2021 – Dec. 2022

James Kutufaris
Feb. 2021 – May 2022

Brendan Kane
Vincent P. Slatt Fellowship
Aug. 2020 – Nov. 2020
Feb. 2021 – May 2022

Allison Taylor
Slatt Fellowship (Aug. – Nov. 2020)
Aug. 2020 – Nov. 2020
Jan. 2021 – May 2021

Yi-Chung Chen
Slatt Fellowship (Jan. – Dec. 2020)
Jan. 2019 – May 2021

Gabrielle Beach
Aug. 2020 – Nov. 2020

Marta Kernan
Jan. 2019 – May 2020

Neil Niere
Jan. 2019 – May 2020

Michael Rogers
Jan. 2018 – Dec. 2019

Jack Gorman
Slatt Fellowship (Jan. – May 2019)
Jan. 2018 – May 2018
Jun. 2018 – Dec. 2018
Jan. 2019 – May 2019

Joseph Sutton
Jan. 2019 – May 2019

Joseph Gonzales
Slatt Fellowship (May 2018 – Apr. 2019)
Jan. 2017 – May 2019

Alfredo Duarte Gomez
NURF Fellowship (May – Jul. 2017)
May 2017 – Jul. 2017
Aug. 2017 – May 2018
- Anders Butsch: Jan. 2026 – May 2026
- Josh Urban: Jan. 2026 – May 2026
- Joseph Broderick: Feb. 2025 – May 2025, Aug. 2025 – May 2026
- Gabrielle Rodriguez: Aug. 2025 – Dec. 2025
- Yaritza Padilla: Aug. 2025 – Dec. 2025
- Will White: Jan. 2025 – May 2025
- Kelly Antosiewicz: Jan. 2025 – May 2025
- Andrew Lauerman: Jan. 2025 – May 2025
- Isabella Field: Jan. 2025 – May 2025
- Demi Olawoyin: Jan. 2024 – May 2025
- Michael Sanchez: William Family Fellowship (Nov. 2024); Jan. 2024 – May 2025
- Ray Sierra: Sep. 2023 – Dec. 2024
- Ian Martin: Jan. 2024 – May 2024
- Katie Fiacco: Jan. 2024 – May 2024
- Philip Lombardi: Oct. 2022 – May 2023
- Daniel Forkey: Oct. 2022 – May 2023
- Andrew Kwon: Building Bridges Program; Aug. 2020 – May 2023
- Ashlyn McDonald: Oct. 2022 – May 2023
- Quinn Gallagher: Feb. 2021 – May 2021
- Diana Linares Mendes: Building Bridges Program; Aug. 2016 – May 2020
- Frank Byrd: Feb. 2020 – May 2020
- Jacob Shapiro: Sep. 2019 – May 2020
- Alexandre Boueri Alvarez: Sep. 2017 – Dec. 2017, Jan. 2018 – May 2018, Aug. 2018 – Dec. 2018
- Adam Matteson: Aug. 2017 – Nov. 2018
- Matthew Hennessy: Oct. 2017 – May 2018
- Adam Mallette: Aug. 2017 – Dec. 2017
- Jens Rataczak: Sep. 2017 – Dec. 2017
- Kelly Prussack: Aug. 2017 – Dec. 2017
- Shane Combs: Jan. 2017 – Aug. 2017
- Ryan Dixon: Jan. 2017 – Aug. 2017
- Kevin Warten: Aug. 2016 – May 2017
- Senay Argaw Tilahun: Feb. 2016 – May 2017
Visiting Scholars/Visiting Students

Taro Sasakura
Aug. 2025

Yuinosuke Takashima
Aug. 2025

Yusuke Kojima
Aug. 2024

Thorsten Klaas
Aug. 2024

Arnaud Carboni
Aug. 2023 – Dec. 2023

Sathya Narayanan
Jan. 2023 – May 2023

Tsubasa Ikami
Jul. 2022 – Sep. 2022

Thai Duong Nguyen
Jun. 2022 – Jul. 2022

Yusuke Hirose
Apr. 2019 – Jul. 2019

Henrique Fanini Leite
CAPES Award, Brazil
Aug. 2018 – Jul. 2019

Tatsuya Yamada
Jul. 2017 – Aug. 2017

Tatsunori Hayashi
Feb. 2015 – Dec. 2015
- Yushi Matsumura: Aug. 2023
- Adam Matteson: Aug. 2018 – Oct. 2018
- Teppei Kuwata: Aug. 2018 – Oct. 2018
- Takeshi Fujimoto: Mar. 2018
- Yusaku Nishio: Sep. 2017 – Mar. 2018
- Akira Kotani: Jun. 2017 – Feb. 2018
- Daiki Kurihara: Mar. 2017 – Dec. 2017
- Mio Tanaka: Oct. 2015 – Dec. 2015
- Miki Nishimura: Oct. 2015 – Dec. 2015
- Kazunobu Kobayashi: Jan. 2015 – Nov. 2015
Internship Students

Lyon Burns
NURF Fellowship
May 2024 – Aug. 2024

Xinchen Xia
Summer 2021

Dawn Kelly
Naughton Fellowship (REU)
May 2019 – Jul. 2019

Wenxi Chen
iSURE program
Jul. 2019 – Aug. 2019

Anthony Garatoni
Fall 2018

William Gothard
NURF Fellowship
Jun. 2018 – Aug. 2018

Qiaochu Wang
iSURE program
Jul. 2017 – Aug. 2017

Arnau Rodríguez Rubio
NURF Fellowship
Jun. 2016 – Aug. 2016

Kamolthita Ruengthong
iSURE program
Jun. 2016 – Jul. 2016

Hengfei Wang
iSURE program
Jul. 2016 – Aug. 2016

Daiki Kurihara
NURF Fellowship
May 2015 – Jul. 2015
- Hanbin Qiu: iSURE program; Jul. 2018 – Aug. 2018

