The AWA is committed to educating the next generation of accelerator scientists and engineers. Over the last decade, the AWA has supported graduate-student research on a variety of advanced accelerator physics topics. The facility maintains a yearly average of graduating three Ph.D.’s per year and regularly hosts undergraduate students as summer interns.
Graduate Students
John Power
Group Leader
Chunguang Jing
Consultant
Sergey Antipov
Consultant
Eric Wisniewski (IIT)
Photoinjector studies
Gwanghui Ha (Pohang, Korea)
Emittance exchange implementation
Jiahang Shao (Tsinghua)
Field emission and breakdown
Qiang Gao (Tsinghua, China)
Transformer ratio enhancement
Dan Wang (Tsinghua, China)
W-band collinear wakefield
Kueifu Lai (Cornell)
Photonic Topological Insulator structure (PTI)
Yanru Wang (IMP, China)
Electron radiography imaging
Mark Warren (IIT)
Novel photocathodes
Nicole Neveu (IIT)
Multi-objective beam dynamics
Hao Zha (Tsinghua, China)
Choke mode cavity
Lianming Zheng (Tsinghua)
Thermal emittance, photocathodes
Ryan Roussel (UCLA)
Plasma wakefield acceleration using shaped bunches
Xueying Lu (MIT)
Metamaterial structure
Nathan Xin Nie (U Chicago)
Scaling of transformer ratio
Chen Li (Tsinghua, China)
BBU studies
Maomao Peng (Tsinghua)
High gradient dielectric-loaded accelerator test
Chen Gongxiaohui (IIT)
Ultra-crystalline diamond photocathode
Mitchell Schneider (MSU)
Julian Picard (MIT)
High power generation with a metamaterial
Tianzhe Xu (NIU)
Flat beam generation
Jimin Seok (UNIST)
Multi-energy beam generation using EEX
Sasha Siy (UW)
Undergraduate Students
Tamara Gonzalez Acevedo (University of Puerto Rico)
Jens Carter (UW)