Casey's Research Group

The University of Texas at Austin

Research Group Members

Prof. Caitlin Casey, Associate Professor
Olivia Cooper, 3rd year grad student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Hollis Akins, 1st year grad student and UT President's Harrington Fellow
Dr. Arianna Long, NASA Hubble Fellow
Dr. Maximilien Franco, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Jed McKinney, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Seiji Fujimoto, NASA Hubble Fellow
Mia Fong, UT Undergraduate
Jake Magee, UT Undergraduate
Alfonso Melendez, UT Undergraduate

Former Members (years in group)


Dr. Jaclyn (Jackie) Champagne, UT Austin graduate student, current JASPER Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Arizona (2016-2022)
Dr. Justin Spilker, NASA Hubble Fellow, current faculty at Texas A&M University (2017-2021)
Dr. Patrick Drew, UT Austin graduate student, current data scientist in Boston, MA (2016-2021)
Dr. Sinclaire Manning, UT Austin graduate student, current Hubble fellow at UMass Amherst (2015-2021)
Dr. Jorge Zavala, UT Austin postdoctoral fellow, current project assistant professor at NAOJ (2017-2021)
Dr. Chao-Ling Hung, Harlan J. Smith Fellow (2015-2017), former faculty at Manhattan College, current data scientist

Rachel Nere, UMass Boston Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2022)
Imani Dindy, University of Oklahoma Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2021)
Pranav Premnath, UT Austin Undergraduate (2019-2020), current graduate student at UC Irvine
Maryam Hussaini, UT Austin Undergradaute (2020), current graduate student at Harvard
Anne Burnham, UT Austin Post-BAC (2017-2020), current graduate student at Yale
Derek Zapata, Colby College Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2019), current graduate student at Rutgers
Luna Urias, Texas Tech Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2019), data scientist at General Motors
Laney Wicker, UT Austin Undergraduate (2018-2019), current graduate student at Scripps/UCSD
Aimee Schechter, UT Austin Undergraduate (2017-2019), current graduate student at University of Colorado
Gabriella Sanchez, University of Hawai'i Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2018)
Oscar Cantua, University of Texas San Antonio and TAURUS Scholar (2018)
Richard Seifert, UT Austin Undergraduate (2017-2018), current graduate student at the University of Virginia
Meghana Killi, UT Austin Undergraduate (2016-2018), current graduate student at DAWN Copenhagen
Jonathon Brown, MIT Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2017)
Julia Orenstein, UT Austin Undergraduate (2017)
Derek Holman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2016), current engineer
Pranav Nair, UT Austin Undergraduate (2016)