Dr. Viviana Acquaviva
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Prospective students: Unfortunately, I am not looking to work with new students at this time, as I'll be focusing on learning about Climate. I enjoy working with students and have mentored > 25 undergraduate and graduate students.  Sometimes I have openings for student projects, including within the CUNY funding system (e.g. Emerging Scholars, Research Scholars, LSAMP). If you are interested in working with me, I am happy to discuss options - please know that to enjoy the experience you need to have a strong interest in programming, statistics and/or machine learning, and a working knowledge of Python. Knowledge of Astronomy is helpful but not required. Enthusiasm, passion, respect for all, and strong work ethics are 100% required!

Current group
Festa Bucinca, Physics Ph.D. candidate at CUNY (co-supervised with Ari Maller).
Jake Postiglione, ACP major, Honors Scholar, and the "Ja" of the Javioli team.
Olga Privman, ACP major, Honors Scholar, and the "Ol" of the Javioli team.

Past group members:
Dr. Andy Lawler,  Statistics Ph.D., Data Scientist and Astronomer-in-training.
Justin Peterkin, AstroCom scholar, now a PhD student at the University of Maryland.
Faraz Chahili, Doctoral Student at Syracuse University.
Hashir Qureshi, C.H.E.S.S. founding member and MSEIP grant awardee, NASA Small opportunity grant awardee, and former Emerging Scholar at City Tech; now full-time solution architect at Amazon.
Harpreet Gaur, C.H.E.S.S. member, CUNY Research Scholar, former Emerging Scholar and Honors Scholar at City Tech, now full-time software engineer at JPMorgan.
George Nwanwko, C.H.E.S.S. member and Emerging Scholar at City Tech, now full-time software engineer at MailChimp.
Syed Rehman, C.H.E.S.S. member, rising sophomore at City Tech.
Dr. Chris Lovell, postdoctoral researcher at University of Hertfordshire.
Anastasia Spiridonova, senior at City College of CUNY and Macaulay Honors College.
Joshua Perez, MSEIP grant student, Summer 2017, now a junior at Lehman College.
Fedora Casimir, C.H.E.S.S. team member, now a Computer Science major at City College.
Roberto Serrano, Emerging Scholar at City Tech, 2015-2016, now a Physics major at Stony Brook.
Mario Martin, Research Scholar at City Tech and AstroCom NYC scholar, 2014-2015, now a Physics major at the University of Florida.
Julia Avez, Physics graduate from Hunter College and AstroCom NYC scholar, 2013.
Andrew Leung (with E. Gawiser), senior honors thesis student and prize winner, now a Physics graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin.
Hannah Bish (with E. Gawiser), senior honors thesis student, now a graduate student at the University of Washington.
Carlos Vargas (with E. Gawiser), Ph.D., senior honors thesis student, a recipient of an NSF graduate fellowship.



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