Our Family
Postdoctoral researchers and research scientists
Tamar Regev
Research Scientist
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Andrea de Varda
Postdoc
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Halie Olson
Postdoc
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Hope Kean
Postdoc
(starting February, 2026)
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Eghbal Hosseini
Postdoc
(on leave at DeepMind)
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Laura Ruis
Postdoc (primary mentor: Andreas)
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Kumar Duraivel
Postdoc
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Saima Malik Moraleda
Postdoc
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Jingnan Du
Collaborating Postdoc
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Alfonso Nieto Castañón
Collaborating Research Scientist
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Grad Students
Ben Lipkin
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Colton Casto
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Samuel Hutchinson
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Full-time RAs / PostBacs
Chiebuka Ohams
Aaron Wright
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Patrick Sherlock
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Part-time RAs / UROPs
Ferdindando D’Elia
Maria Gabas
Nilofar Ghafory
Pengrui Han
Marisa Montione
Fall 2021 (Caitlin Cunningham Photography LLC)
Honorary Members
Our Lab Equipment
Meet our lab equipment named in honor of individuals in history who did not get sufficient credit for their contributions to science / engineering.
Our projector
Our printer
Our desktop machines
Alumni
Several lab alumni have kindly agreed to be contacted if you wanted to talk about Ev’s mentoring style, lab climate, and related issues.
Those who have volunteered to be contacted are marked accordingly below.
Postdocs
Olessia Jouravlev (2015-2017)
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Melissa Kline (2016-2017)
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Idan Blank (2016-2019)
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Jayden Ziegler (2019)
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Rachel Ryskin (2019-2020)
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Alex Paunov (2019-2020)
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Sammy Floyd (2021-2023)
Anna Ivanova (2022-2023)
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Cory Shain (2021-2024)
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Chengxu Zhuang (2022-2024)
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Maria Ryskina (2022-2024)
Greta Tuckute (2024-2025)
Select high-school interns
Sophia Seitz-Shewmon (2023)
Ashley Malkin (2023, 2024)
Chandler Cheung (2020-2021)
Graduate students
Ev’s PhD advisees:
Idan Blank (2011-2016)
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Alex Paunov (2015-2016, 2018)
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Anna Ivanova (2017-2022)
Carina Kauf (2020-2024)
Eghbal Hosseini (2019-2024)
Saima Malik Moraleda (2018-2024)
Greta Tuckute (2020-2024)
Hope Kean (2020-2025)
Other (committee, rotations, etc.):
Kyle Mahowald (2011-2016; PhD, member of the committee)
Moataz Assem (2015-2016; Masters, co-advisor)
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Jeanne Gallée (2016-2017; PhD, rotation)
Meilin Zhan (2016-2017, PhD, rotation)
Jayden Ziegler (2016-2019)
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Wendy Georgan (2018; PhD, rotation)
Halie Olson (2018; PhD, rotation)
Leo Zekelman (2018-2019; PhD, rotation)
Jenn Hu (2019; PhD, rotation)
Yuan Bian (2019-2020; PhD, rotation)
Tiwa Eisape (2019-2020; PhD, rotation)
Lara Rakocevic (2020-2021; MEng)
Bryan Medina (2021-2022; PhD, rotation)
Amani Maina-Kilaas (2024; PhD, rotation)
Elizabeth Lee (2023-2024; MEng)
Lukas Wolf (2024; visiting Masters student)
Post-bac full-time RAs
Terri Scott (2012-2015)
Walid Bendris (2013-2016)
Caitlyn Hoeflin (2015-2016)
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Zach Mineroff (2015-2017)
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Juniper Pritchett (2015-2017)
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Dima Ayyash (2016-2017)
Evgenia (Yev) Diachek (2016-2018)
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Matt Siegelman (2016-2018)
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Greta Tuckute (2018)
Hope Kean (2018-2020)
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Nafisa Syed (2019)
Alvincé Pongos (2019-2021)
Hannah Small (2019-2021)
Josef Affourtit (2019-2021)
Ben Lipkin (2020-2022)
Maya Taliaferro (2021-2023)
Colton Casto (2021-2023)
Aalok Sathe (2021-2024)
Hee So Kim (2023-2024)
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Niharika Jhingan (2021-2024)
Sara Swords (2022-2025)
Alexander Fung (2023-2025)
Anvitha Kachinthaya (2024-2025)
Jingyuan Selena She (2023-2025)
Adhara Martellini (summer 2025)
Select undergraduate students
Irina Shklyar, MIT (2007-2009)
Veronica Smith, MSRP (2008)
Tanya Goldhaber, MIT (2008-2010)
Anastasia (Stacey) Vishnevetsky, MIT (2009-2011)
Michael Behr, MIT (2009-2012)
Elizabeth Cain, MIT (2010-2013)
Zuzanna Balewski, MIT (2011-2014)
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Elizabeth Ryan, Cal Tech (2012)
Morris Alper, MIT (2012-2014)
David Zheng, Princeton (2013)
Lindsay Penzel, RPI (2013-2014)
Taibo Li, MIT (2013-2015)
Federica Astengo, U Edinburgh (2013-2015)
Jeanne Gallee, Wellesley (2013-2016)
Amaya Arcelus, Wellesley (2014-2015)
Cara Borelli, Wellesley (2014-2015)
Florence Frank, Wellesley (2014-2015)
Zoya Fan, MIT (2015-2016)
Catherine Looby, MIT (2016)
Lily Jordan, MIT (2016-2017)
Jorge Vera Rebollar, MIT (2016-2017)
Avital Baral, MIT (2016-2017)
Martin Schneider, MIT (2016-2017)
Gabriel Grand, Harvard (2016-2018)
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Rachael Schwarz, Wellesley (2016-2018)
Nafisa Syed, MIT (2016-2019)
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Kyle Sargent, Harvard (2017-2018)
Miriam Hauptman, Tufts (2017-2019)
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Yotaro Sueoka, MIT (2018-2020)
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Jessica Chen (2019-2021)
Mingye (Christina) Wang (2020-2021)
Zawad Chowdhury (2020-2021)
Alexandra So (2020-2021)
Emma Landry (2020-2021)
Nicole Shigiltchoff (2020-2021)
David Oluigbo (2022-2024)
Bianca Santi (2023-2025)
Josleen St Luce (2023-2024)
George Flint (2023-2024)
Shaylee Xie (2024)
Jack King (2024-2025)
Megha Vemuri (2024-2025)
Nika Ananieva (2025)