Graduate Students
Tyler "The Explorer" Carbin
He/Him
Joshua "The Great Josh" Lee
He/Him
Konstantin Pejakovic
He/Him
Lee Zucker-Murray
She/Her
Group pictures
September 19, 2025- Goodbye dinner for Dr. Thomas at Killer Noodle! First PhD student to graduate out of our group!
April 9, 2025- Farewell dinner at California Pizza Kitchen for Xinshu. It was a pleasure having you as our postdoc for the past 4 years!
January 27, 2025- "Serious and intimidating" image of our group with our new lab sweaters. Professor Kogar generously used the money he received for being named "teaching professor of the year" to buy the entire group sweaters!
Former Members
Thomas Sutter (PhD 2020-2025, Leonardo DRS)
Xinshu Zhang (Postdoc 2021-2025, Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Hang Min (Undergrad Class of 2025, PhD University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign)
Xavier Baxa (Undergrad Class of 2025, PhD University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign)
Jaya Higgins (Undergrad Class of 2023, PhD Cornell)
Rishi Acharya (Undergrad Class of 2023, PhD UIUC)
Cecilia Abbamonte(Undergrad Class of 2023, PhD Cornell)
Shiying Wang (Undergrad Class of 2022, PhD Johns Hopkins)
Mikhael Rasiah (Undergrad Class of 2021, Masters Imperial College London)
